My session on graduate students in digital humanities was Occupied! Because it became clear to many at the conference that although 40% of the attendees at THATCamp Switzerland were female, only one of the proposals was by a woman. So, two of the women here at Camp staged a pirate attack on my session and…
Tag: Social Networking
Facebook and Sex Trafficking
[NB: This post contains content that might not be suitable for all ages.] Regular readers of this blog will know that this semester I’m teaching a course on the history of human trafficking. One of the students in my class wrote a very good paper on the impact of technological change on the sex trafficking…
Zotero 2.0
[This post originally appeared in the blog hist.net.] Zotero 2.0 became available for public download on May 14. This new version of Zotero provides many exciting features that unlock the research archives of individual scholars making those research archives (or portions of those archives) available for a wider audience. Think about it this way. In…
I do not tweet!
Despite what you may find on Twitter, Edwired (and by extension Mills Kelly) does not tweet. Some dastardly and unknown Twit (is that what you call people who use Twitter? I don’t use it so I don’t know the correct lingo) signed me up to reserve the name for me. Thanks, I guess, if only…