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Notes on DH and sharing your work
These are notes and links for a talk I’m giving on digital humanities and sharing your work at the University of California, San Diego, on November 5, 2012. DH projects I discuss The Real Face of White Australia, by Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt. For more on this project, see Tim Sherratt, “It’s All about the Stuff:…
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Very basic strategies for interpreting results from the Topic Modeling Tool
Written with Andy Wallace, with methods and ideas borrowed from Zoe Borovsky If you’re reading this, you may know that topic modeling is a method for finding and tracing clusters of words (called “topics” in shorthand) in large bodies of texts. Topic modeling has achieved some popularity with digital humanities scholars, partly because it offers…
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What are some challenges to doing DH in the library?
You may be familiar with the scenario: the faculty member groaning (often justifiably) that it’s taken so long to get one simple project off the ground that she’s given up on trying to work with librarians. Or the administrator who wonders why librarians aren’t trying harder to learn new skills. Having actually done some digital humanities in…
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Use Automator to combine your research photos into one PDF
By request, these are updated instructions for using your Mac to combine your research photos into a PDF. For more on digital research workflows, see here, here, and here. If you have a Mac, you own a robot! It’s called Automator and it lives in your Applications folder. It does pretty much what the name…
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Call for participants: SCMS workshop on digital humanities and film/media studies
Among those who care about such things, it’s become clear that there’s a bit of a divide between film and media studies, often thought to be primarily theoretical or historical, and digital humanities, which often emphasizes the importance of hacking or making. Is such a divide irresolvable? Let’s find out! Jason Mittell and I have…
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The digital humanities postdoc
In the last few years, I’ve noticed a certain kind of job ad appearing with more and more frequency. I think of it as the “make digital humanities happen” postdoctoral fellowship. Often based in a library, these positions’ descriptions include some combination of “liaison,” “catalyst,” and “hub,” with a heavy dose of coordinator syndrome thrown…
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Training grad students for a new scholarly landscape
Here’s what I just said about graduate student training at a workshop (with Daniel Chamberlain, Mary Francis, Tara McPherson, Leslie Mitchner, and Patrice Petro) on “the changing profession” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual meeting: As we watch the academy change around us, I think it’s becoming clear to us that the…
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Things we share
So, that post. I’ve never written anything that’s gotten much attention before, and the experience has been strangely, intensely stressful. Is it too divisive?, I wonder. Too hastily written? When I wrote the post, to be honest with you, I was livid about job-market news from friends, not to mention the latest VIDA stats. Should I have…
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Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code
Oh, how I hate being the bearer of bad news. Yet I feel I have to tell you something about the frustration I’m hearing, in whispers and on the backchannel, from early-career women involved in digital humanities. Here, there, and everywhere, we’re being told: A DHer should code! Don’t know how? Learn! The work that’s…