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News and Highlights in a Digital Age
SDSU in the DH – Post45 Contemporaries
The dream of many scholars is publication—the validation of knowledge attained and deeming of one’s thoughts as worthy of dissemination. As recent grads and graduate students, the future where such goals are attainable often seems distant, riding the horizon and...
Marking Bodies and Critical Inquiry
What kinds of questions do we, as scholars and critical readers, need to ask ourselves each time we engage with new material? What can we do to increase our understanding of events—past, present, and future—without causing further harm to the people that have already...
Free DH Tools!
Hello DH friends! The semester has begun and we know that you will undoubtedly want to flex those DH muscles in some of your upcoming projects. We know that money can be tight, and that not everyone has access to the same level of digital materials. So, in order to...
Student Spotlight – Claire Ball
I chose the Timeline platform for my topic because Augustus' political career follows a very linear pattern. Each event I describe builds on the previous and all occurred around Rome, thus the concept of space isn't as important for making my...
Student Spotlight – Brenda Samoun
Digital History is a useful alternative to how we access, understand, and contribute individual knowledge of general history. With new technological advancements, we have the benefits of interpreting history according to our own expectations and standards. In...
Student Spotlight – Mayra Cortez
Digital media is transforming the way we interact and view the past. I took this class in order to expand my knowledge on what digital history consists of. Digital history is changing how we access information as we go from paper to digital copies, making history more...
Student Spotlight – Chelsea Coble
I wish I had learned about Digital History sooner. A professor introduced a great video that represented the dead and injured soldiers and civilians involved in WWII and I found the visual representation of the data fascinating. It put the large numbers into...
Student Spotlight – Hannah Friesen
Digital Humanities is still something that is relatively new to me. I was introduced to it in the spring of 2018, when one of my history professors declared that a large portion of graded materials would be digital projects. I went...
Dr. Dave Ciccoricco Visits SDSU’s Digital Humanities Center
Dr. Dave Ciccoricco visited SDSU Thursday, March 21st from the University of Otago in New Zealand. He gave a talk on “Simulation and the Posthumanities” and also sat down with members of SDSU's Digital Humanities Initiative to learn more about how our team has...
Mark Z. Danielewski Gives Talk at SDSU in Association with the Larry McCaffrey Archives
“I’m going to tell you a ghost story...” Danielewski began, and the room was enthralled. Well, maybe he didn’t begin his talk this way this past Wednesday, March 13th 2019, but that is certainly one place the literary titan took it. In celebration of the...
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