Category Archives: New Literature

Is Digital Humanities Too Text-Heavy?

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Elijah Meeks

Last week was the marvelous international conference for digital humanities, held this year at beautiful University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Over the course of 4 days, I tried desperately to meet people I only knew from tiny Twitter pictures or gitHub or … Continue reading →

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The Curmudgeon Club

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

My post tying digital humanities to The New Aesthetic caused a bit of consternation, and forced me to take a closer look at the movement. Matthew Battles gives the best overview that I’ve read so far, and reminds me of … Continue reading →

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The Building Blocks of a Visual Vocabulary

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

When I suggested an animated encyclopedia of verbs and processes, I naively assumed that nouns were taken care of. Not so, as The Noun Project demonstrates. The site, which began with the question, “what if I had a sketch for … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as a Journal (of)

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

The inaugural edition of the Journal of the Digital Humanities is now online, and includes an article by me in the Conversations section titled Digital Humanities as Thunderdome. I will resist posting a photo of Tina Turner and Mel Gibson so as … Continue reading →

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Building a Scholarly Digital Object

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve been exposed to a lot of exciting digital humanities research since I came to Stanford, both in the formal projects I’ve been brought in on to support and in consultation with and exposure to ongoing research by various individual … Continue reading →

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Models as Product, Process and Publication

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

In building a transportation network for the Roman Empire and integrating it into a model of movement in the Roman Empire, I’ve found that the shift from creating, annotating and analyzing archives to modeling systems can have a profound impact … Continue reading →

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TV Tropes Pt. 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 2: Trope (but not Troper) Communities Example of Thematic Relationships While it’s one thing to use network visualization to display these structures, and use analytical tools like community detection to make … Continue reading →

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TVTropes Pt 2: Trope (But Not Troper) Communities

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn Example of Thematic Relationships I received quite a few comments about the last article, most of which I haven’t approved, … Continue reading →

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TVTropes Pt 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Part 2: Trope (but not Troper) Communities Part 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn Example of Thematic Relationships HP Lovecraft popularized a certain type of malevolent force, something so massive and powerful and unconcerned and … Continue reading →

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HASTAC V: The Search for More Digital Humanities

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’m here at the HASTAC conference at the beautiful and only slightly snowy University of Michigan, where Dan Atkins has explained how cyberinfrastructure works from the e-science perspective.  He notes that the NSF can’t fund “humanist” endeavors, but is amenable … Continue reading →

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