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Tag: Academia
Looking for new peer reviewers for The Comics Grid
We want to extend the pool of peer reviewers for The Comics Grid. There's a short post explaining some of the recent changes to our platform on the journal's blog. I also posted the call on HASTAC.
Mi Día de HD: De Estudiosos y Estudiados (en respuesta a una respuesta de Paul Spence)
Today is the Day of Digital Humanities in Spanish and Portuguese. My post today is a reponse to a response from Paul Spence. Mi Día de HD: De Estudiosos y Estudiados en respuesta a una respuesta de Paul Spence).
En Mi Día de HD: Las humanidades digitales como disidencia cognitiva
Inspirado por el Día de las Humanidades Digitales y por la próxima escuela de verano de DH Postcolonial he subido mi póster/volante para el Primer Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales (17 y 18 de mayo de 2012) a figshare.
Conferencia magistral: El académico digital: acceso abierto, licencias y derechos de autor
I am giving a lecture on open access, Creative Commons licenses and copyright on Tuesday 11 June 2013, at the National Library, Institute of Library Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Forms of Innovation Deck of Slides
I have done an edit of the deck of slides I showed at the Forms of Innovation workshop at the University of Durham last Saturday 27th April 2013 to share online. You can download it as a .pptx file, and use it under a CC BY license, from Figshare.
Week 5: Digital Societies?
The final session of our Digital Societies module at City University London is today. If there is such a concept as “digital culture(s)”, what are some of the key issues around the “digitial society” or should we say “digital societies”?
Time has flown and today we have the final session(s) of our Digital Cultures modules. We have attempted to offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives that might help us to re-configure the digital media/digital culture landscape.
If there is such a concept as “digital culture(s)”, what are some of the key issues around the “digitial society” or should we say “digital societies”?
If everything goes well the timetable for today will be:
10:30-12:50
- Popularity vs. expertise:-Diego Beas, Oxtord Internet Institute
- Outlining the emergent digital culture within Higher Education- Mark Carrigan, LSE Politics blog
14.00-16:30
- Open Data- Janet Gunter, ReStart Project
- Digital Exclusion- David Bawden, City University London
It promises to be a great day!
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By the way this is the final list of the bibliography we crowdsourced amongst scholars on Twitter between the 26th of February and today… after the weekend I’ll make another post with it adding relevant hyperlinks…
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At the British Library: Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference
I am honoured to have been included in the programme for the Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences conference which will take place the 1st and 2nd of July 2013 at the British Library.
Open Access: Getting Things Right
Cameron Neylon published a very interesting and timely opinion piece on the Times Higher Education titled "Let's get this right" (28 March 2013). Here a personal response.
At the University of Nottingham: Beyond the Book? Open Access Discussion
On Monday 25th March I will participate in a panel discussion on Open Access at the Beyond the Book? The future of academic publishing conference at the University of Nottingham.
Week 4: Networks and Participatory Culture. Digital Cultures is running at full steam now. Guests: Tim Causer, Eliza Anyangwe, Martin Eve and Nora McGregor.
The UK might be bracing itself for Arctic conditions and floods but Digital Cultures is running at full steam now. Today Friday 22th March 2013 we’ll have a very exciting set of sessions.
The timetable for today is
10:30-12:50
- Crowdsourcing: Engagement, Participation- Tim Causer, Transcribe Bentham, UCL
- Professional Networks: Community Management, Digital Engagement and Participation – Eliza Anyangwe, Guardian Professional Networks
14.00-16:30
- Bridging Media: Grassroots Campaigns, Activist Projects and the Open Library of Humanities -Martin Eve, Lincoln University
- Digital Scholarship Strategy at the Britsh Library: Nora McGregor, Librarian/Digital Curator – British Library – Digital Curator at the British Library
As usual any tweets about these sessions please use the hashtag #CityDigiCult.
At the British Library: Digital Scholarship, Resources And Research Workshop
Tomorrow I will participate at the 'Digital Scholarship, Resources And Research Workshop organised by the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries (cpd25) at the British Library, London.
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