UCL Centre for Digital Humanities


The terror of tweeting: social medium or academic message?

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 09:42 AM PST

Claire Warwick, UCLDH co-director, has written for the Guardian Higher Education Network on how the mismatch between some academics and social media is not so much fear of technology, but concerns over losing control.
You can read the full article on the Guardian website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/feb/05/academic-twitter-technology-social-media-universities

Digital Partnership Event Summary

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 04:57 AM PST

Event date: 31 January 2013 Slides from the presentations are available here: John Hindmarch’s Presentation Jack Ashby’s Presentation Matthew Cock’s Presentation Jane MacDonald’s Presentation Digital innovation and how museums and universities can partner to achieve this was the focus of this workshop. John Hindmarch, a PhD student at UCLDH, started the afternoon with his experience with the scanning of the recently decommissioned [...]

UCLDH nominated in Digital Humanities Awards 2012

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 02:59 AM PST

We at UCLDH are very proud to announce that three of our projects have been nominated in the Digital Humanities Awards 2012! Best Digital Humanities Project for public audiences category: Transcribe Bentham Best DH visualization or infographic category: Quantifying Digital Humanities, an infographic Best Use of DH for Fun category: Textal Voting in the DH Awards is open [...]

KulturBot 1.0: Art goes Robotics

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 01:43 AM PST

One of our DH team members—Frauke Zeller—is involved in a new project that brings together art, critics, and robots in a joint international project with Canadian artist David Harris Smith: http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/article/watch-your-step-campus-toughest-art-critic-could-be-under-your-feet/
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