Assignment I – Identify & Review a DA or DH Tool: CartoDB
Mission Statement: “I wanted to find and learn the basic operations of a free tool that could be used by a data-journalist to visualize data sets in order to generate [Read more]
Digital Humanities
“The use of the term [Digital Humanities] reflects a growing sense of the importance that digital tools and resources now have for humanities subjects.” Oxford University Digital Humanities Department
The Digital Human: 2014 In Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed [Read more]
Wearable Technology & Dehumanisation
Strolling aimlessly through the city at Christmas always provided certain contentment absent from the year’s otherwise banal months. A sensory overload – dense [Read more]
Exploiting the Virtual to Govern the Physical: Has Social Media Made Sinn Fein Ireland’s Most Popular Party?
Some weeks ago The Guardian posed a simple question: “Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?” [1] Many scoffed; it was an absurd question, perhaps [Read more]
Gone In a Flash: The Virality of Social Media Charity Campaigns
From Kony 2012 to the No Make-up Selfie, there is yet to be a campaign in the brief lifespan of social media that sustains its participation rate from peak popularity to the [Read more]
Mindmap George Dowswell: How to Set up and Manage a Trainee-Led Research Collaborative.
The 8 Best Applications for College Exam Time
With UCC’s first semesterised exam period upon us, now is the time to put away Candy Crush and check out these eight applications that might just make the next three weeks [Read more]
Mind Map: The Public Sphere and Online, Independent Journalism by David Beers
Digital Readers: The Next Chapter in E-Book Reading and Response by Lotta C. Larson
Mind Map: Digital Expertise In Online Journalism by Dominic Boyer
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