Joomla! site syndication http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:08:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu Joomla! site syndication index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1 At the start of the twenty-first century, no city has been more influential in the development of global media than Los Angeles. The changes effected by new communications and analytic technologies—ranging from web-based media forms, data mining tools, and digitization practices to instant messengers, mobile locative technologies, and gaming environments—are so proximate and sweeping in scope and significance that they may appropriately be compared to the print revolution. But these changes are happening on a very rapid timescale, taking place over months and years rather than decades and centuries. Because of the rapidity of these developments, the intellectual tools, methodologies, and disciplinary practices have just started to emerge for responding to, historicizing, and interpreting the massive social, cultural, economic, and educational transformations happening all around us. In this new age of accelerated global interaction, interdependence, and communication, UCLA aims to become the institutional leader in articulating the intellectual agenda for assessing and interpreting the cultural significance of media and technology. News - Latest Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:54:06 +0100 index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=46 Hypercities is a Macarthur-funded web project based at UCLA. Both a pedagogical and a research platform, Hypercities is used as a platform for student projects in many UCLA courses, and recently, a multimedia companion to a special edition of the journal Urban History was published on it. The project has also been the target of significant interest from community organizations; the platform is being used to archive a multimedia walking tour of Historic Filipinotown produced by the Pilipino Workers' Center and the UCLA Center for Embedded Network Sensing. The meeting will explore the stated goals and uses of Hypercities that intersect with the stated goals of digital humanities: collaborative scholarship, participatory learning, geo-temporal argumentation, and community-scholarly engagement.Presenters will include: Todd Presner (UCLA, Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature) Phil Ethington (USC, History and Political Science) David Levitus (USC, History) Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS Specialist) David Shepard (UCLA, English)The meeting will be in Humanities Building 193/199, on November 16, from 4-6 pm. All are welcome, and light refreshments will be provided. Readings: Hypercities: main website (http://hypercities.com/) and project (http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/) Transnational Urbanism in the Americas: A Multimedia Companion (Hypercities companion to special edition of Urban History) The City in the Age of New Media - Todd Presner (images/stories/17%20-%20chapter%2011%20-%20presner.pdf) HyperCities: Building a Web 2.0 Learning Platform (images/stories/presner_hc_lit_at_distance2009_rev.pdf) Remapping German-Jewish Studies: Benjamin, Cartography, Modernity - Todd Presner (images/stories/presner_gq_2009.pdf) Mellon Seminar - Seminar Meetings Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:37:51 +0100 index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38 Version 2.0 of the Digital Humanities Manifesto is now available here (images/stories/mellon_seminar_readings/manifesto%2020.pdf) as a PDF. This version incorporates many of the comments made on the first version, and represents the collaborative efforts of many scholars and participants in the seminar. A text version of the manifesto, which allows commentary, is available at our blog (http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/) . News - Latest Fri, 29 May 2009 17:55:20 +0100 index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37 Co-authored by Todd Presner (Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature) and Chris Johanson (Classics and Digital Humanities) with the help of a large group of other faculty, this whitepaper is a call to action to UCLA faculty and outlines some of the accomplishments and ambitions for Digital Humanities at UCLA. The Promise of Digital Humanities: A Whitepaper (images/stories/papers/promise%20of%20digital%20humanities.pdf) (March 1, 2009 -- final version) About / Mission - About / Mission Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:43:04 +0100