scholarly journals Introduction to Digital Humanities Summer Institute Special Issue

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Seatter ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Summer Institute ◽  
Special Issue

Qualitative research in the digital humanities

KWALON ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinoud Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Concise Overview

Summary The article serves as an editorial to a special issue on qualitative research in the digital humanities. The author raises a number of questions regarding qualitative research in the digital humanities, and he provides a concise overview of the contributions to the issue and the answers these contributions (implicitly) provide to the questions raised. The article ends with an account of opportunities and challenges, and steps to be taken to enhance the potential of qualitative research in the humanities.

scholarly journals Widening the Field and Sparks of the Future

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Negin Mirriahi ◽  
Shane Dawson ◽  
Dragan Gasevic ◽  
Philip D. Long
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Summer Institute ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Learning ◽  
Broad Scale

This issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics comprises two special issue sections. The first of which presents five papers from the 4th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference held in Indianapolis. The second showcases the current or recent work of doctoral students who attended the 2nd Learning Analytics Summer Institute at Harvard University, Boston. The issue also includes two articles in the Hot Spots section, discussing the application of learning analytics initiatives in higher education institutions from different perspectives – broad-scale initiatives to individual course design. The breadth and diversity of the articles covered in this issue demonstrate how the discipline has matured and moved towards understanding student learning to inform pedagogical practice and curricular redesign coupled with strategies for the application and adoption of LA strategies across institutions

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on “Digital Humanities”

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Computer Based

Digital humanities are often described in terms of humanistic work being carried out with the aid of digital tools, usually computer-based [...]

scholarly journals Introduction: The Importance of Place and Openness in Spatial Humanities Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Porter
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Spatial Methods ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Selection Of

Digital Humanities (DH) is a dynamic and developing field. In recent years, its evolution has been witnessed foremost in the growth of funded DH projects and through the willingness of scholars from diverse backgrounds to not only work in DH research, but also as ‘digital humanists’. One crucial component to DH research is that of spatial enquiry, the expansion of which has rapidly evolved from a small component often found buried in research objectives, to the research aim of a growing number of projects. Spatial humanities, while still a relatively new interdisciplinary field, is exhibiting continued advancement and focus from the academic community; however, working with digital data is rarely a straightforward pursuit, even for the most accomplished scholar. Primarily access to appropriate and reliable (spatial) datasets, the keystone of spatial humanities research, the sharing and openness of spatial methods, tools and data (SMTD), and education in the former, all remain a challenge. Witnessing the continued rise of spatial humanities research, this special issue brings together a selection of articles delivered at Spatial Humanities 2016, a conference held at Lancaster University (UK). The aim of this multi-disciplinary conference was to explore and demonstrate the contribution to knowledge that spatial technologies in humanities research may enable within and beyond the digital humanities. Here, this introductory text and associated articles present key research that embodies the growing relevance of the spatial humanities across a plethora of fields and demonstrates several of the prevailing and enduring struggles when working in digital and spatial research. These articles emphasise that, despite common obstacles, spatial humanists make up an imaginative and thriving community keen to share innovation and knowledge and provide stimulating new insights through research.

scholarly journals Cultural studies and critical literacies

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 443-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Rutten ◽  
Gilbert B Rodman ◽  
Handel Kashope Wright ◽  
Ronald Soetaert
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Summer Institute ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Critical Literacies ◽  
Work Done

This article introduces a special issue on the topic of ‘Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies’. The collection of articles is related to the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical) literacy studies. Furthermore, with this issue we want to map current trends in cultural studies by sharing and extending some of the discussions that took place at the Institute with the larger cultural studies community. In this introductory article, we will start by revisiting some of the work done at the intersection of literacy studies and cultural studies to set the scene for our collection of articles that focuses on different contemporary ‘uses’ of literacy.

scholarly journals Challenges of combining structured and unstructured data in corpus development

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. i-viii
Author(s):  
Tanja Säily ◽  
Jukka Tyrkkö
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Unstructured Text ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Rich Data

Recent advances in the availability of ever larger and more varied electronic datasets, both historical and modern, provide unprecedented opportunities for corpus linguistics and the digital humanities. However, combining unstructured text with images, video, audio as well as structured metadata poses a variety of challenges to corpus compilers. This paper presents an overview of the topic to contextualise this special issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics. The aim of the special issue is to highlight some of the challenges faced and solutions developed in several recent and ongoing corpus projects. Rather than providing overall descriptions of corpora, each contributor discusses specific challenges they faced in the corpus development process, summarised in this paper. We hope that the special issue will benefit future corpus projects by providing solutions to common problems and by paving the way for new best practices for the compilation and development of rich-data corpora. We also hope that this collection of articles will help keep the conversation going on the theoretical and methodological challenges of corpus compilation.

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