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two & a half cheers for the lunaticks « Bethany Nowviskie

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Published: Jan 8th, 2012. Two & a half cheers for the lunaticks. He 2012 convention of the Modern Language Association. Saw two deeply thoughtful #alt-ac roundtables — one on jobs in the digital humanities. And another on systemic, corporate, and institutional responses to a broader “ future of alternative academic careers. By “alt-ac,” a growing community speaks not of “alternatives to. On their subject-matter with an. 8220;alt.”. Preface. I chose #Alt-Academy. As the title for a recent MediaCommons pub...

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Tuesday Tips Could Make Your Day | Hunting and Gathering

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19th and early to mid-20th century Georgia photographers and their associates. Tuesday Tips Could Make Your Day. June 9, 2015. Middot; by gaphodoc. Middot; in Documentary photography. Middot; 2 Comments. Yacht Club House, near Savannah, Ga., postmarked 1908; postcard published by F. M. Kirby and Co. id number hpc1647, Historic Postcard Collection RG-48-2-5, courtesy of the Georgia Archives. A collector tells me he has acquired a Bible and family documents once belonging to the family of photographer Will...

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supporting practice in community « Bethany Nowviskie

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Published: May 1st, 2015. Supporting practice in community. Here’s a cleaned-up version of brief remarks I made in a panel discussion on “Cultivating Digital Library Professionals,” at Tuesday’s IMLS Focus meeting. And learn about future #IMLSfocus. My message to the assembled group was pretty simple, and we’ve cross-posted it. On the DLF site.]. I see the continuous renewal and expansion of expert practitioner communities as our most fundamental sustainability issue. Of course, the other trick for funde...

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a game nonetheless « Bethany Nowviskie

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Published: Mar 15th, 2015. Category: soft circuits and code. I recently had the pleasure of responding to a creative and beautifully grounded talk by Kevin Hamilton. Of the University of Illinois, called Beyond the Reveal: Living with Black Boxes. Kevin spoke as part of a workshop on “ Algorithmic Cultures. 8221; hosted by Chad Wellmon. At UVa’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. The great Frank Pasquale. Also presented on themes from his new book,. To which Siva Vaidhyanathan. Work, of scholarsh...

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libraries « Bethany Nowviskie

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Published: Apr 29th, 2016. Everywhere, every when. His is the text of a presentation I made yesterday at a wonderful Columbia University symposium called. Which is bringing media archaeologists together with stones-and-bones archaeologists. I started my talk with a bit of film, as a way of time-traveling to the middle of my theme, in part for the pleasure of taking a jarring step back out. Please watch the first 90 seconds or so of. The Last Angel of History. To its technological recovery? Of libraries, ...

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Teaching « Bethany Nowviskie

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Hold a master’s degree in Education from Wake Forest University. And a PhD in English from the University of Virginia. Where I taught undergraduate courses in English. From 1997 to 2003. My primary teaching and advising happens now as the founder of the Scholars’ Lab’s Praxis Program. 8221; with Andy Stauffer at UVa’s Rare Book School. I advise and frequently serve on dissertation committees for Scholars’ Lab Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities. Past courses at the University of Virginia include:.

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open and shut « Bethany Nowviskie

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Published: Feb 14th, 2015. Recently collaborated on a project a little outside the ordinary for me: a case study for a chapter in a forthcoming textbook for, well, cops and spooks. (Cue performative outrage and sub-tweeting about the digital humanities’ complicity in our modern surveillance state–which I will address in a moment.) The book is the infelicitously-titled. Application of Big Data for National Security: A Practitioner’s Guide to Emerging Technologies. To be perfectly honest, most of the time ...

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Editing « Bethany Nowviskie

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Y early experience in the digital humanities was grounded in textual criticism and scholarly editing at the Rossetti Archive. Where I worked with Jerome McGann on text encoding, interface design, and project management from ca. 1997 to 2004. For most of that time, I served as the Archive’s Design Editor. The “#alt-ac” book. I am currently engaged in an entirely different kind of editing, as I’m putting together an open-access collection of essays. And here’s some local coverage in. This is a book with a ...

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Minor Arcana « Bethany Nowviskie

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Or storing silliness. De gustibus non disputandum. Digital Humanities Dream Karaoke. Or: “Ain’t She Sweet? Tiny Treasures of the Pataphysical Tradition. Dr Kremlin’s Disc. Specifications for a Hermann Hesse/Peter Suber/Ramon Llull/Marie Corelli-inspired game that was one of the goofball interludes in my 2004 doctoral dissertation,. For visiting a John Keats performance piece I built years ago (along with its surrounding wonderland and set of puzzles) in a text-based online virtual reality, or MOO. The Co...