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Balancing on YouTube

Along with three other academics, I went to an interesting media training session run by the Open Broadcasting Unit last week which started me thinking about the techniques of using social media, such as YouTube, for scholarly purposes. We were … Continue reading

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The best of times, the worst of times, and the philosopher’s digital humanities shopping list

What proportion of all the words that have ever been published, in the whole history of humanity, have been published in the last ten years? I don’t know the answer to that (google doesn’t tell me quickly), but I bet … Continue reading

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The gains and losses of the digital humanities researcher

by John Wolffe, Professor of Religious History, Faculty of Arts Like Elton I am new to this blogging game (see the previous blog post), but unlike him I don’t have a major digital humanities research project of my own. So … Continue reading

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Keeping it close before publication?

The Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley has just released a report on their three year US-based Mellon Foundation-funded research study on how faculty practise scholarly communication in the course of their research. Academics from within seven … Continue reading

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