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The HASTAC Scholars program is an innovative student community. Each year a new cohort is accepted into the program, and the Scholars come from 75+ universities, and dozens of disciplines. We are building a community of students working at the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities and sciences. As HASTAC Scholars, we blog, host online forums, develop new projects and organize events. Much of our work here centers around rethinking pedagogy, learning, research & academia for the digital age. Join us!

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Amplified Marginalia: Social Reading, Listening, and Writing

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Recent Forum:
Amplified Marginalia: Social Reading, Listening, and Writing

HASTAC Scholars:
Meet the Students

Current Class:
Scholars Homepage

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Dancer, Choreographer, Scholar, and Teacher: The Luminous Liveness and Presence of Ashley Ferro-Murray

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By Margaret Rhee on Jun 12th, 2014

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Bridging several digital fronts as a choreographer, scholar, dancer, and educator, Ashley Ferro-Murray illuminates a model of a deeply thoughtful and rigorous new media practice. Her innovative work offers us new directions for digital and dance education, performance, and...

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How to get a digital humanities project off the ground

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By Paige Morgan on Jun 6th, 2014

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(cross-posted from http://paigemorgan.net)At DHSI 2014, participants requested an unconference session on how to turn a digital humanities project from an idea into a reality, and I offered to lead it. Here, roughly, are the steps that I recommended. A few are relevant...

Civic Crowdfunding – Four Things We Know, Two Things We Don't

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By Rodrigo Davies on May 10th, 2014

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Yesterday I capped two years of studying the emergence of civic crowdfunding by submitting my master's thesis to the MIT archives. Great thanks are due to the wonderful collaborators I've had the privilege of working with. I won't name everyone here, but all of you folks...

What does DH look like at your institution?

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By Danielle Picard on Mar 17th, 2014

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What does DH look like at your institution and does that work in getting more scholars interested?I spent last week showing several prospective PhD students around Vanderbilt and telling those who were interested about on-campus Digital Humanities (DH) efforts. During...

Better Grading Through Technology

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By Elizabeth Lundberg on Mar 8th, 2014

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My purpose in this post is not to add to conversations about why and how to transform assessment, as important as those conversations are. Instead, I want to share some of my strategies and favorite tools for getting through the actual labor of grading, since for the most...

Notable Posts

Twitter: The map is dead, long live the maps!

By Josef Eckert on Mar 10th, 2014

Videogame University--what would it look like?

By Beth Seltzer on Mar 13th, 2014

Maps as Viral Visual Arguments

By Megan Gianfagna on Feb 21st, 2014

Forums

“Amplified Marginalia”: Social Reading, Listening, and Writing

By HASTAC Scholars program on May 9th, 2013

Scholars, Scholar Class 2013

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“The text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture.”- Roland Barthes

Visualization Across Disciplines

By HASTAC Scholars program on Apr 15th, 2013

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visualization

In recent years, visualization has become an all-purpose technique for communicating and exploring data within the humanities. There are a wide availability of tools offering different points of entry from IBM’s Many Eyes to Gephi to Tapor 2.0.

Dis/Ability: Moving Beyond Access in the Academy

By HASTAC Scholars program on Mar 24th, 2013

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Often, accessibility is—as Jay Dolmage and John Slatin have argued—a retrofit or add on. That is, it is often not an integral part of our theoretical conversations, classroom spaces, and technologies. It is this attention to technology, though, which focuses this forum and...

Visualizing Geography: Maps, Place, and Pedagogy

By HASTAC Scholars program on Mar 11th, 2013

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Mapping technology has recently been the focus of much critical attention as evidenced by numerous efforts to develop new ways of visualizing physical and textual spaces. The proliferation of tools such as Neatline, The DM Project, Google Earth, and Walking Through Time has...