Visualizing Poster Activity on Usenet
This is the second in series of blog posts by 2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame on the progress of his dissertation, “Talk Amongst [...]
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Nov 2016
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Nov 2016
Dana Williams and Kenton Rambsy Digital Dialogue
Patterns in literary scholarship suggest that serious considerations of a literary period do not fully begin until at least a generation after its emergence. [...]
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Nov 2016
MITH announces first courses ever for spring 2017!
MITH is thrilled to announce that we will be offering two courses in the spring as part of the new interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Digital Studies [...]
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Oct 2016
A Block List Against Hate
Twitter User Identifiers Two weeks ago a group of students, scholars and activists gathered in the evening at MITH for an event called [...]
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Oct 2016
“If it gets us talking, it can’t be bad:” Building the Transgender Usenet Archive
“If only one life is saved by the creation of this group, wouldn't it be worth it? It's only a communications medium, and people are [...]
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Oct 2016
Come join MITH Thursday 10/13 for a Night Against Hate!
Please join us at MITH (and remotely) this Thursday to gather with others looking to learn from each other about how to investigate and thwart [...]
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Oct 2016
Night Against Hate
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Extremist Files provides a list of known hate groups. At our Night Against Hate event we will collaboratively try to link the SLC list to social media accounts. This list can then be used by researchers here at UMD and elsewhere to examine the effect that these groups are having online. In addition, we hope to use this event to learn from each other about emerging tools and techniques of self care while working online.
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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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Aug 2016
The Digital Dialogues Collection, chronicling a slice of the digital humanities since 2005
This is the 6th post in MITH’s Digital Stewardship Series. In this post, MITH’s summer intern David Durden discusses his work on MITH’s audiovisual collection [...]
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Jul 2016
A Decade of Digital Dialogues Event Recordings and the Challenges of Implementing a Retroactive Digital Asset Management Plan
This is the 5th post in MITH's Digital Stewardship Series. In this post, MITH's summer intern David Durden discusses his work on MITH's audiovisual collection of historic [...]