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News and Highlights in a Digital Age
DH@SDSU Emerging as Leader in Podcasting
The History of Podcasting at DH@SDSU DH@SDSU supported podcasting long before the DH Center opened in late 2017/early 2018. Working with faculty in their classes, DH Librarian Dr. Pam Lach helped students learn to create podcasts for their course assignments. As...
Student Showcase: A snapshot of how DH@SDSU impacts individuals. An Interview with Brienne Hayes
Brienne Hayes recording in the podcasting studio in SDSU Library's Digital Humanities Center. Brienne Hayes is a non-binary literary and queer student of Digital Humanities. They exemplify how DH@SDSU successfully serves and supports SDSU students, preparing them for...
An Unexpected Nexus
Reflections about the digital humanities from a recent SDSU graduate By Rose Rastbaf I had registered for Dr. Pollard’s Spring 2019 Ancient Rome, HIST 503, expecting a curriculum akin to that of a conventional history syllabus: traditional reading assignments, essays,...
Meet the new DH Programs Assistant
Harmit Chima joined the DH@SDSU Initiative as the DH Programs Assistant in June, 2020. She shared her thoughts about why she wanted to join the DH@SDSU community. I define “digital humanities” as the integrating application between digital technology and the...
Creating a Learning Community in Zoom
A lot of faculty are apprehensive about returning to virtual instruction in the Fall with the knowledge that all of their classes will be taught via Zoom for the entire semester (in contrast to the rapid shift to virtual last spring). One concern I’ve heard is about...
5 Minutes with Dr. Pam Lach
Hello DH Friends and welcome back! This is the second blog of our spring semester series, in which we will be visiting prominent members of SDSU’s Digital Humanities community and asking them a few questions about their relationship to DH and how they see the Digital...
5 Minutes with Dr. Jessica Pressman
Hello DH Friends! This is the first blog of our spring semester series, in which we will be visiting prominent members of SDSU’s Digital Humanities community and asking them a few questions about their relationship to DH and how they see the Digital Humanities...
The Digital Humanities Wars?
“...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And...it is the...
Twitter and Historical Bias
Recently, China’s national library has remarked that it wishes to begin archiving posts from a popular social media site, Weibo. Despite protests by users, the platform argued that the intended purpose of this collection would be for research purposes only. ...
Retraumatizing the Past
The past—that monolithic nonentity that weighs so heavily upon our present situation. Our past, the past we adhere to and accept, is what defines who we are in many regards. The things we have done, mixed with the benefits we have been given and the actions forced...
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