by Talking Humanities | Sep 15, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications
Covid-19 has brought the world of data-driven crisis management and social organisation out of the shadows. ‘This is an opportunity,’ says chartered geographer and University of Westminster lecturer, Doug Specht, ‘to examine its flaws and...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 7, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
What kinds of questions will big data allow us to ask and answer? How can we ensure this material is collected and preserved in such a way that it meets the requirement of humanities researchers? These are two of the questions addressed by a 12-month ‘Born-digital big...
by Talking Humanities | May 18, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, From the Archives, SAS Space Data Repository
Image: © Shutterstock Harry Raffal, a PhD candidate at the University of Hull, studies the online development of the Ministry of Defence and the British Army. Below, he discusses elements of this work, which will feature at a Web Archiving Week hosted by the School of...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 17, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features
Michael Pidd overseas the work of HRI Digital at the University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute. He has been working on the Digital Panopticon project, which involves bringing together a large body of third-party data, and believes there is still a...
by aseifert | Nov 10, 2014 | Being Human festival, Events, PotW, Public Engagement
At Senate House, home to the ‘Ministry of Information’ during WWII and inspiration for Orwell’s 1984, we launch the Being Human festival with a day of activities that will inspire debate over our shared future as ‘digital humans’. Based at the Being Human festival hub...
