Digital Ethnography Toward Augmented Empiricism: A New Methodological Framework
Digital Ethnography Toward Augmented Empiricism: A New Methodological Framework How Do Digital Technologies Deepen Ethnographic Practices? Culture takes variegated forms, including lived experiences, social interactions, memories, rituals, transactions, events, conversations,…
Transforming the Object of our Study: The Early Modern Sermon and the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project
Transforming the Object of our Study: The Early Modern Sermon and the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project Scholars of early modern England have recently begun to pay more attention to sermons.…
Modelling the Interpretation of Literary Allusion with Machine Learning Techniques
Modelling the Interpretation of Literary Allusion with Machine Learning Techniques Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract A Computational Perspective on Allusion Most literary allusion, the deliberate evocation by one text of…
Code Appendix for “Digital Ethnography”
Code Appendix for “Digital Ethnography” require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' require 'geokit' include Geokit::Geocoders # intitialize agent and open page agent = # create a .txt file to save the results…
“Making the Digital Humanities More Open”: Modeling Digital Humanities for a Wider Audience
“Making the Digital Humanities More Open”: Modeling Digital Humanities for a Wider Audience Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract “Making the Digital Humanities More Open,” a NEH ODH Digital Humanities Start-Up…
An Introduction to Alex McDowell’s “World Building”
An Introduction to Alex McDowell’s “World Building” An influential designer changes the way others design. A deeply influential designer shifts how we think about design by fundamentally changing the role…
Exploring and Designing Virtual Worlds
Exploring and Designing Virtual Worlds What can we learn from the creation and exploration of a virtual world? The impulse to create imagined spaces occupies a longstanding tradition in the…
“World Building”
“World Building” Alex McDowell — World Building Video of this presentation to the Media Systems convening at the University of California, Santa Cruz on August 27, 2012 originally published on…
Media Systems – Envisioning the Future of Computational Media
Media Systems – Envisioning the Future of Computational Media This is the final report of the Media Systems project held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012. This…
Pudding Lane: Recreating Seventeenth-Century London
Pudding Lane: Recreating Seventeenth-Century London Introduction In early 2013, Crytek, GameCity, and The British Library teamed up to launch a competition that challenged students to create interactive environments using maps…
Historical Understanding in the Quantum Age
Historical Understanding in the Quantum Age The following remarks were delivered at the AHA Roundtable Session #83 Digital Historiography and Archives. They have been slightly modified and annotated for the…
A Distinction Worth Exploring: “Archives” and “Digital Historical Representations”
A Distinction Worth Exploring: “Archives” and “Digital Historical Representations” In the original presentation of these papers at the AHA session, I was the final speaker on the panel, and so…
Provenance Meets Source Criticism
Provenance Meets Source Criticism (This is a slightly revised version of the paper from which I spoke at the AHA. I added links, references, a few images, and an introductory…
Going Meta on Metadata
Going Meta on Metadata I once joked to an archivist that all I really do as a historian is add meta-metadata to the archival database. What I meant was that…
DH@WIT: Digital Humanities for Undergraduate Design, Engineering, and Management Students
DH@WIT: Digital Humanities for Undergraduate Design, Engineering, and Management Students Poster Download (PDF, ) Abstract Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT), an independent, co-educational, technical design and engineering college located in…
On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack”
On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack” One of the least helpful constructs of our “digital humanities” moment has been a supposed active opposition, drawn out over the course of…
Digital Contexts
Digital Contexts The digital contexts of our scholarly practice impact not only the kind of work that we may do as humanists, but also how we represent changes in theory…
Review of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (2014)
Review of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (2014) Ryan, Marie-Laure, Lori Emerson, and Benjamin J. Robertson, eds. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,…
Using Computer Vision to Increase the Research Potential of Photo Archives
Using Computer Vision to Increase the Research Potential of Photo Archives In art history research, photographs of art are the lifeblood of study. Since it’s usually impossible for a scholar…
Digital Historiography and the Archives
Digital Historiography and the Archives The following pieces by Joshua Sternfeld, Katharina Hering, Kate Theimer, and Michael Kramer are based on our session at the American Historical Association (AHA) meeting…