Episode #104 – Social Science History 2: Electric Boogaloo
26 March, 2014No comments
In this episode, Amanda, Stephen, Mills, and guest Joan Troyano were joined by Digital History Fellows Spencer Roberts and Anne Ladyem McDivitt. The first topic of discussion was the announcement of the American Historical Association’s $1.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through which four history departments will restructure their doctoral programs to promote diverse career options for history PhDs. The conversation then moved to the lawsuit between Duke University Press and the Social Science History Association regarding ownership of the Social Science History journal. Finally, on a completely different note, we discussed wearable computing and the implications for digital humanities, which raised lots of questions, excitement, and confusion amongst the participants.
To conclude the episode, Joan provided an update from the PressForward project at CHNM, including the upcoming release of their new WordPress plugin.
Related Links:
History PhD being Redesigned?
http://blog.historians.org/2014/03/aha-receives-grant-expand-career-tracks-history-phds/
Duke UP and Social Science History association lawsuit over ownership of journal
http://chronicle.com.mutex.gmu.edu/article/Dispute-Over-Who-Will-Publish/145307/
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2014/03/18/more-than-meets-the-eye/
http://publichistorycommons.org/update-on-the-journal/
Advances in Wearable Computing
Google Smart Watch
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/google-introduces-a-smart-watch/?_php=true&_type=blogs&partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
Recently published book, Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology – http://www.press.umich.edu/6025015/pastplay
Bill Turkel’s Humanities Fabrication and Physical Computing: http://williamjturkel.net/
Thingiverse: http://thingiverse.com
Report from the Center
http://pressforward.org/the-pressforward-plugin/
Running time: 52:28
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