The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will be holding THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), May 31 and June 1, 2008. Sponsored by CHNM and the podcasts Digital Campus and THAT Podcast, this event will be an “unconference” on digital humanities. An unconference is an event where the participants decide…
Tag: History of Digital Media
Text Mining for Historians
[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] This summer the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will begin work on a two-year study of the potential of text-mining tools for historical (and by extension, humanities) scholarship. The project, entitled “Scholarship in the Age of Abundance: Enhancing Historical Research With…
To Read or Not to Read?
Episode 21 of our Digital Campus podcast is now up and ready for download. In this episode, Dan, Tom, and I take on the question of the future of reading in a digital world. Actually, Dan, Tom, Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts and Matt Kirschenbaum of the University of Maryland take…
The Search Primary (2)
“Super Tuesday” has come and gone with no clear winner on the Democratic side of the ledger. Hillary Clinton apparently won more delegates, but Barack Obama won more states and stayed very close to Clinton in the total delegate count. On the Republican side, John McCain scored a big, but nowhere near decisive, victory. Our…