Digital Dialogues

Tuesday, November 29, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 "'It's not a game to me:' ARGs, Game Design & Secret Agents in the Schoolroom"  by BETH BONSIGNORE, ANN FRAISTAT, KARI KRAUS, AMANDA VISCONTI The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry (AGOG) is a sort of narrative wunderkammer of an alternate reality game (ARG), a "cabinet of

Tuesday, November 15, 12:30-1:45PM NOTE LOCATION: Women's Studies Multimedia Studio, 0135 Taliaferro Hall, University of Maryland "Everything is Animated: Pervasive Media and the Networked Subject" by BETH COLEMAN In a world of pervasive media and ubiquitous computing, this talk asks what happens as everything (objects, subjects, and actions) moves toward animation across a network. How

Tuesday, November 8, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 "Thoughts on the Decline of the Book as Physical Object" by PETER KAY The vanishing physical book provides a set of discovery, marketing and publicity (and not a few existential) challenges to trade publishers. As the book transitions from physical object to a licensed file

Tuesday, November 1, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 "Learning on the Job: Data Curation by Humanists, Librarians, and the Public" by TREVOR MUÑOZ The research environment within which professional humanists and librarians have been accustomed to working is being reshaped by both internal and external pressures. In different ways, scholars' debates about publishing,

Tuesday, October 25, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 "Networked Macrosolutions: Library Peer-Sourced Collaborative Services" by RACHEL FRICK Macrosolutions are shared global services that provide institutions with resources and solutions that have the opportunity to take advantage of networked enterprise-class scale. These types of services, which were once only locally provided, can now be

Tuesday, October 11, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 "Criticism in the Digital Humanities" by FRED GIBBS As the digital humanities community expands beyond its computing roots, and as humanistic inquiry and interpretation (as opposed to methodological novelty) feature more prominently in its projects, the boundaries between digital and analog humanities grow increasingly blurred

Tuesday, October 4, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135 “Hardtack and Software: Topic Modeling in Civil War Newspapers” by ROBERT K. NELSON During the Civil War, newspaper editors in the Union and Confederacy were called upon to help motivate their male readers to die and to kill for their respective countries.  This presentation will

Tuesday, September 27, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Seminar Room, McKeldin Library B0131 “Computational Historiography in a Century of Classics Journals” by DAVID MIMNO What do you do with a book? Until recently, this has not been a difficult question, but the creation of massive databases of digitized documents has begun to enable researchers to explore new possibilities.