Social media is a key contemporary site of activity for politics, entertainment, and relationships, but how can we study it? This course combines theory and practice; students will both read canonical and contemporary social media research from leading scholars and learn to engage with social media platforms to collect and analyze their own data.…[Read more]

In this video, Dr. Leonardo Flores explains the process of creating and deploying a bot.

In this video (2 of 2), Rachel Winter demonstrates the process of creating visualizations representing emotion and sentiment from a set of Tweets using the Orange visualization software.

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF; French National Library) recently launched a free comics creation desktop and mobile application, “BDnF”. Designed and produced by the BnF, BDnF is a digital creation tool for making comics and other multimedia stories, mixing illustration and text. BDnF allows users to engage creatively in specific aspe…[Read more]

In this presentation I will argue that, while the FAIR Principles can guide how we build DH resources in the Global North, any attempt to apply them in the Global South (especially in Latin American countries) may replicate colonialist practices that ignore the digital divide and local needs and practices in favour of hegemonic standards. This…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

Gustavo Doré is considered one of the great universal illustrators. Throughout his life he made a very extensive work highlighting especially the work done to illustrate the Bible, the Quixote and the Divine Comedy. In 1862 he embarked on a trip through Spain accompanied by hispanist Charles Davillier.…[Read more]

In this video (part 2 of 2), Dr. Stephanie Vie explores some of the challenges of publishing research based on Twitter data.

In this video (part 1 of 2), Dr. Stephanie Vie discusses the ethical challenges of publishing research based on Twitter data.

In this video, Dr. Stephanie Vie explores some of the promises and challenges of working with Twitter data for digital humanities research.

In this video, Drs. Stephanie Vie and Jennifer deWinter explain some of the tools digital humanists can use for critical discourse analysis and visualization of data collected from social media platforms.

In this video, Drs. Stephanie Vie and Jennifer deWinter explain the process of applying critical discourse to data collected from social media platforms.

In this video, Drs. Stephanie Vie and Jennifer deWinter provide an introduction to critical discourse analysis for humanists.

In this video (part 2 of 3), Mel Stanfill goes over the advanced functionality of Gephi visualization software.

In this video (part 3 of 3), Dr. Mel Stanfill provides instructions for using Twitter and other data with the Gephi visualization program.

In this video, Dr. Mel Stanfill explains the basic functionality of the visualization program Gephi, including instructions for importing data.

Due to the great interest for the first two sessions of the Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar, we are very happy to announce two new online sessions on August 3rd & 4th and on September 3rd & 4th. This doctoral seminar is an introduction to Digital Humanities defined as the application of methods and tools from Information and Communication…[Read more]