The Cleaners: Movie Night (Oct 30)
The Cleaners (2018) Please join us in MITH on October 30, 2019 (All Hallows' Eve Eve) from 6-8pm for a screening of The [...]
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Oct 2019
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Dec 2018
MITH welcomes T’Sey-Haye Preaster
We are excited to welcome T'Sey-Haye Preaster to the MITH team as the Project Coordinator for the second phase of the Documenting the Now project, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Oct 2018
Documenting the Now Phase 2
With a $1.2 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, Shift, and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) will collaborate to lead the ongoing work of the Documenting the Now project.
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Aug 2018
#Engineering: A Data Story
This post is part 2 in a series about social media data collection experiments conducted in Matt Kirschenbaum‘s Introduction to Digital Studies. Fred Turner’s interview [...]
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May 2018
Unlocking the Airwaves
Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection is a multi-institutional collaboration between MITH, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the University Libraries at the University of Maryland, with collaborative support from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH/Library of Congress, and the Radio Preservation Task Force. The goal of the project is to create a comprehensive online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).
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May 2018
MITH Receives NEH Grant for “Unlocking the Airwaves”
MITH is pleased to announce an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities 2017 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program for Unlocking the Airwaves: [...]
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Feb 2018
Ethics and Archiving the Web
MITH is very excited to announce our participation in the Ethics and Archiving the Web National Forum which will be taking place at the New [...]
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Feb 2018
Emad Khazraee Digital Dialogue
Social media have transformed our societies and contributed to creation of online public spaces. In the past few years, we witnessed how social media [...]
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Nov 2017
Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: A Panel and Workshop
This panel and workshop, planned in conjunction with the 2017 Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, focused on innovative workflows for crowdsourcing linked data to build a web of data that can bridge collective heritage. Panelists discussed their work and research in crowdsourcing or linked open data for radio collections, followed by a Wikidata workshop demonstrating how it can be used to connect archival radio collections to a broader web-based community of knowledge.
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Nov 2017
Alexandrina Agloro Digital Dialogue
How can interactive media supplement and support justice-related social movements? Alexandrina Agloro, media artist and assistant professor, will discuss the landscape of design and [...]