The Digital Humanities Community of Practice is comprised of faculty from the University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries, History Department, and English Department and intended to provide faculty theoretical and practical applications of digital humanities to research and teaching.
This community of practice adheres to a code of conduct. If there are violations, please contact Jason Heppler jheppler@unomaha.edu immediately.
📅 12:00-1:00 CT, second Tuesday of each month
We meet once a month to host an hour-long discussion on a theme or topic. We strive to get the core readings completed before our meeting (~30 pages).
- Jessica Marie Johnson, "Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads," Social Text, Vol. 36, No. 4 (2018).
- Maeve Kane, “All One People and Under One King”, presentation at William and Mary Quarterly Digital Research in Early America Forum at University of California Irvine, October 11-12, 2018.
- Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich, “Local/Global: Mapping Nineteenth-Century London’s Art Market” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Volume 11, Issue 3, Autumn 2012.
- Ted Underwood, "Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text" The Stone and the Shell, June 4, 2015.
- Nathan Yau, Data Points: Visualization That Means Something, Ch. 5: Visualizing with Clarity, pp. 201-240.
- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, Data Feminism Chapter 5: The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves
- Lara Putnam, "The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast," The American Historical Review, Volume 121, Issue 2, 1 April 2016, pp. 377–402.
- Samantha Thompson, "Why Don’t Archvists Digitize Everything?" May 31, 2017.
- Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, “Machine Bias”, ProPublica, 23 May 2016.
- Jenna Wortham, “Black Tweets Matter” Smithsonian Magazine (September 2016).
- Nicholas Confessore et al., “The Follower Factory” New York Times, 27 January 2018.
- “The Age of the Algorithm” 99% Invisible podcast (September 5, 2017).
- Farhad Manjoo and Nadieh Bremer, “I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me.” New York Times (August 23, 2019)
- Tracy Samantha Schmidt, “Inside the Backlash Against Facebook” Time (2006)