Topic
Digital Humanities
74 items.
31 Mar 2014
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The Digital Humanities Discourse: The Knowledge Question on the WikipediaThe emergence of alternative modes and spaces of knowledge production has been a core concern of the Digital Humanities, particularly with respect to the collaborative or public archive. Wikipedia, as a collaborative knowledge repository …
30 Mar 2014
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A Queer Digital Humanities ExperienceQuestions of identity and citizenship have been an important aspect of understanding the digital realm, and what it means to be ‘human’ in this space. While one may still mull over the separation of the real and the virtual, the digital as …
28 Mar 2014
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Structure, Sign and Play in the DigitalI have come to realize, in my research, that I have been looking for and staring at the various entry points of the Digital Humanities by looking at the primordial lighting arrangements and formative forces that are in play in it. So far, …
28 Mar 2014
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Fishing is the New Black: Contemporary Art Imitates the DigitalMarshall Mcluhan once said, “Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” Philosophers, on the other hand, think about things in …
20 Mar 2014
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Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and PracticeDr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, 2014. He blogged about the conference.
20 Mar 2014
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A Question of Digital HumanitiesThe emergence of digital humanities as a new field of interdisciplinary research enquiry has also seen growth in literature around the problem of its definition. This blog-post lays out some of the conceptual frameworks for the mapping …
12 Mar 2014
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Digital Humanities: The Ecto-ParasiteThis blog entry, exploring Jacques Derrida's Mochlos can be read in three ways. The numbers below refer to the cells which should be read in the specified order. A.) 1-3-4: This essay views knowledge and the University as a technology and …
25 Feb 2014
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Questions to Nishant ShahDr. Nishant Shah had a text interview with the Hybrid Publishing Lab around questions on Digital Humanities.
24 Feb 2014
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Defending the Humanities in the Digital AgeThe author says that he is trying to take the formulation of digital humanities as a history-in-making where we might still be able to salvage the humanities from being soft-skills and our pedagogies from becoming reduced to MOOCs.
21 Feb 2014
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Digital Humanities in India- Mapping Changes at the Intersection of Youth, Technology and Higher EducationAs part of the collaborative exercise on mapping the field of Digital Humanities in India, a series of short-term research projects were commissioned by HEIRA-CSCS, Bangalore in November 2013. A day-long workshop was organized at CIS on …
16 Jan 2014
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Mapping Digital Humanities in IndiaAs part of the research enquiry in the field of Digital Humanities (DH), this mapping exercise aims to provide an overview of key people, institutions and emerging literature in the field, and identify some of the pertinent questions and …
1 Nov 2013
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From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely OpaqueNishant Shah is teaching a course on "From Seemingly Transparent to Definitely Opaque" and presenting on a panel on 'Secrets of Digital Culture' at the St. Gallen Business school in Switzerland in November 2013.
23 Oct 2013
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Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the GlobalBrown University organised the Asian Video Cultures event at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts between October 24 and 26, 2013. Nishant Shah presented a paper titled “In Access: Approaches to Understand Digital and Online Video in …
15 Oct 2013
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Digitalization of CultureDr. Nishant Shah did an introduction keynote to 1600 undergraduate students at the Leuphana University on October 8, 2013.
11 Oct 2013
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RENEW: The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and TechnologyThe 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology – RENEW, is hosted by RIXC Centre for New Media Culture in Riga in partnership with the Art Academy of Latvia, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and …
4 Oct 2013
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A Hitchhikers Guide to the CyberspaceThis blog post explores what authors of various stripes have to say about the digital sphere. Directly or indirectly, it looks at the commentary that authors provide on raging debates and contentions within the Digital Humanities.
25 Sep 2013
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Reclaim Open Learning SymposiumThis international convening is the culmination of the Reclaim Open Learning Innovation Challenge, committed to surfacing individuals and organizations that are transforming higher education toward connected and creative learning, open in …
12 Sep 2013
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Thinking Digital Beyond Tools: Interview with Dr. Nishant ShahDr. Nishant Shah is the co-founder and Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India. He is an International Tandem Partner at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Germany and a Knowledge …
28 Aug 2013
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The Habit of Care: Technologies of Living and Laboring Cyborgs at World Social Science Forum 2013The World Social Science Forum 2013 organized by International Social Science Council will take place in Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada from October 13 to 15, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah is participating in the event as a panelist and …
16 Aug 2013
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Copy 'N' Paste: AusstellungDr. Nishant Shah was a speaker at this event hosted by Post Media Lab on August 12, 2013. He spoke on "About the Violence of Knowledge Cartels".
18 Jul 2013
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Digital Humanities for Indian Higher EducationThe digital age has had a huge impact on higher education in the last decade transforming the modalities of both teaching and research. To discuss these changes and what it means for research work, a multidisciplinary consultation was held …
7 Jul 2013
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Political Economy, Activism and Alternative Economic StrategiesThe fourth annual conference in political economy was organized by the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam at the Hague from July 9 - 13, 2013.
29 Jun 2013
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The Pervert in the Cubicle: Of Pornographers, Pirates and Terrorists: A Talk by Nishant ShahDr. Nishant Shah was a speaker at the 2013 Annenberg - Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute organized by Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and the Programme for …
15 Jun 2013
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Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and CriticismThe 2013 Session will take place in Johannesburg (South Africa) from June 22 to July 2, 2013. Nishant Shah is participating as a speaker. The event is organized by WITS Institute for Social and Economic Research.
21 Mar 2013
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Korean Trans Cine-Media in Global Contexts: Asia and the WorldThis conference to be held from March 27 to 29, 2013 is being organized by Trans - Asia Screen Culture Institute, Cinema Studies, Korean National university of Arts, Korean Film Archive and Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda …
12 Feb 2013
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Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network SocietyWe live in Network Societies. This phrase has been so bastardised to refer to the new information turn mediated by digital technologies, that we have stopped paying attention to what the Network has become. Networks are everywhere. They …
26 Jan 2013
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Habits of Living: Networked Affects, Glocal EffectsBrown University is organizing an international conference that elucidates the networked conditions of our times, how they produce ways, conditions, and habits of life and living, how they spread local actions globally. The conference will …
18 Nov 2012
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Alt needs to ShiftPeople maybe talking more online, but they all seem to be talking about the same kind of thing.
23 Oct 2012
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Who’s that Friend?If you are reading this, stand on your right foot and start hopping while waving your hands in the air and shouting, “I am crazy” at the top of your voice. If you don’t, your Facebook account will be compromised, your passwords will be …
23 Oct 2012
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Habits of Living: Being Human in a Networked SocietyRecently, in Bangalore, a cluster of academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners, were supported by Brown University, to assemble in a Thinkathon (a thinking marathon, if you will) and explore how our new habits of everyday life need …