Avery Dame Digital Dialogue
Digitization and online access are often presented as an important tool for making history, particularly those whose histories are rarely told, accessible to a [...]
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Mar 2017
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Mar 2017
The Transgender Usenet Archive
2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame spent his fellowship year building the Transgender Usenet Archive, a public archive of posts from five targeted Usenet newsgroups which grew in popularity during the 1990’s upswing in online discussion forums, in this case around groups which were central to the development of a transgender community.
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Feb 2017
Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass (CRIM)
Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass (CRIM) will extend the idea of the quotable text for music in an innovative and open way. The focal point of our inquiry is the so-called “imitation” Mass, a Renaissance musical genre notable for the ways in which its composers derived new, large-scale works from pre-existing ones.
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Jan 2017
Tracking Changes With diffengine
Our most respected newspapers want their stories to be accurate because once the words are on paper, and the paper is in someone’s hands, there’s [...]
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Oct 2016
Gregory Zinman Digital Dialogue
This talk describes the discovery and significance of Etude (1967), a previously unknown work by media artist Nam June Paik identified by the author in the Smithsonian American [...]
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Sep 2016
Purdom Lindblad Digital Dialogue
In the Republic of the Imagination, Azar Nafisi champions reading as a way to open ourselves to deepen empathy and entice our curiosity. Inspired, [...]
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Apr 2016
Documenting the Now Team Announced
Back in February we announced MITH's involvement in the Documenting the Now project, which is now under way. In a nutshell, Documenting the Now is [...]
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Feb 2016
Introducing Documenting the Now
A few weeks ago MITH announced that it will be partnering with Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL) and the University of California at Riverside [...]
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Jan 2016
African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities
African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) was awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and is being co-directed by MITH and the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy (Center for Synergy). The project was funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies, and will help to prepare a diverse community of scholars and students whose work will both broaden the reach of the digital humanities in African American history and cultural studies, and enrich humanities research with new methods, archives and tools.
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Jan 2016
Documenting the Now: Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content
Documenting the Now responds to the public’s use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars and archivists seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving digital content.