by Talking Humanities | Nov 13, 2018 | Digital, Features
What are edge cases, and why do they matter? Dr James O’Sullivan, a digital arts and humanities lecturer at University College Cork, puts flippancy aside to unpick these uncanny constructs that are born of digital apparatus and reside somewhere between book and not...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 18, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features
Michael Pidd, director of the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield, and developer Katherine Rogers, explain how they used an ‘ology’ to overcome the mixed data challenge thrown up by their AHRC-funded ‘Beyond the Multiplex’ project. One of the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 10, 2018 | Digital, Features, Politics & Law
The use of Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) in the home and workplace is rapidly increasing. However, until very recently, little attention has been paid to the fact that such technologies are often distinctly gendered. This is despite various policy documents from...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 2, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Republished
Dr Philip Carter, senior lecturer at the Institute of Historical Research, remembers the nine women whose commitment to education made them pioneers in women’s higher education. At 2pm on 15 May 1869, the 17 examiners of the University of London (UoL) gathered...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 23, 2018 | Digital, Events, Features, Languages & Literature
Migration and the rapid rise of digital media and communications are arguably two of the defining features of our contemporary age, says Dr Naomi Wells a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR). While individuals and...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 10, 2018 | Digital, Features
Dr James O’Sullivan, a lecturer in digital arts and humanities at University College Cork, explains why institutions need to think very carefully about the demarcation between public and digital humanities, because while they are related, they are not necessarily the...
