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DSC Summer Arduino Workshop

Introduction to Physical Computing: for academics, utility, or fun featuring the Arduino Uno.

WHEN: July 17th, 2015, 1 – 4 PM

Signup: http://goo.gl/forms/7vDJ5wDnCr

 

The Arduino Uno workshop will introduce participants to hardware prototyping. This is a ‘beta’ event with hands-on experimentation and instruction. Beginners are encouraged to attend!!

 The kits are a resource of the Digital Scholarship Center at University of Oregon Knight Library.

Key Questions to be Addressed:

  • What is physical computing?
  • How can you get started?
  • Learn how to use the Arduino and write your own code!

For more information contact Scott Austed: austed@uoregon.edu

http://digitalscholarship.uoregon.edu

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7 New Media Opportunities to Take Advantage of this Summer!

Looking for interesting opportunities to continue to practice and develop your new media and programming skills over the summer? Check out the links below for ideas!

 

1. Coursera Free Online Course: Programming for Everybody (Python)

WHEN: June 1-August 9
WORKLOAD: 10 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week

ABOUT THE COURSE:

This course is specifically designed to be a first programming course using the popular Python programming language. The pace of the course is designed to lead to mastery of each of the topics in the class. We will use simple data analysis as the programming exercises through the course. Understanding how to process data is valuable for everyone regardless of your career. This course might kindle an interest in more advanced programming courses or courses in web design and development or just provide skills when you are faced with a bunch of data that you need to analyze. You can do the programming assignments for the class using a web browser or using your personal computer. All required software for the course is free.

Read the full posting about the course: 

https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn

kahn academ2. Kahn Academy: Kahn Academy is a fantastic resource that provides a wide variety of free online lessons on the basics of programming.

 

Current lessons on programming available on the site include:
Intro to JS: Drawing and Animation
Advanced JS: Games and Visualizations
HTML/CSS: Making Webpages
HTML/JS: Making Webpages Interactive

lynda.com3. Lynda.com: Lynda.com is a subscription-based coding site that provides an extensive array of courses and video tutorials of all skill levels covering technical skills, creative techniques, and business strategies.

For those interested in learning how to code, Lynda’s Developer Tutorials will be of particular interest. These tutorials help you learn to develop and create mobile apps, work with PHP and MySQL databases, get started with the statistical processing language R, and more.

4. UO Department of Computer and Information Science
Summer 2015 Courses: Summer courses in the department of Computer and Information Science are now posted. Check out the department website for more details.

 

Available classes include:
CIS 110 Fluency with Information Technology
CIS 111 Introduction to Web Programming
CIS 115 Multimedia Web Programming
CIS 122 Intro to Programming and Problem Solving
CIS 399 Android Apps
CIS 399 iPhone/iPad Apps
CIS 399 Introduction to System Administration
CIT 281 Advanced Business Systems

5. Codecademy: Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 8 different programming languages including Python, PHP, jQuery, JavaScript,AngularJS, and Ruby, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. It is a fantastic resource to work on building up your programming skills in your own time- and even better, it’s free to use!

logo-oregonu6. UO Digital Scholarship Center Workshops:
The UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center offers workshops on request. John Russell in the DSC is especially interested in offering introductory workshops for learning the basics of the command line, Python, or R.

If you are interested in setting up a workshop, or have questions about learning opportunities at the DSC this Summer, please contact John at johnruss@uoregon.edu

7. WMC Progressive Women’s Voices Media Training: Program: WMC Progressive Women’s Voices is the premier media and leadership training program for women in the country. Participants represent a range of expertise and diversity across race, class, geography, sexual preference, ability, and generation. They receive advanced, comprehensive training and tools to position themselves as media spokespeople in their fields, thereby changing the conversation on issues that fill headlines. Graduates join a supportive network of alumnae who support each other in their media goals.

Upcoming 2015 WMC Progressive Women’s Voices Training Dates:
July 11 – 12 in Washington DC and July 18 – 19 in Washington, DC
More information and the application form are available here.
Deadline to apply  is June 8, 2015.

 

 

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Conference: Japanese and Korean Mediascapes: Youth, Popular Culture, and Nation

Japanese and Korean Mediascapes: Youth, Popular Culture, and Nation

Friday and Saturday, May 29-30, 2015
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
The University of Oregon

This two ­day event will explore the globalization of Japanese and Korean popular culture with an eye to major historical movements and media trends. We will investigate how popular music, video games, television dramas, and comics has shaped international relations, soothed historical tensions, and altered commercial landscapes. This is one of the first conferences at the University of Oregon or elsewhere to examine Japanese and Korean popular culture together.

For more information and full schedule of events, see http://caps.uoregon.edu/japanese-korean-mediascapres-youth-popular-culture-nation/

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Apply to WMC Progressive Women’s Voices Media Training Program

The Women’s Media Center has announced the training dates for the next WMC Progressive Women’s Voices Trainings. WMC Progressive Women’s Voices is the premier media and leadership training program for women in the country. Participants represent a range of expertise and diversity across race, class, geography, sexual preference, ability, and generation. They receive advanced, comprehensive training and tools to position themselves as media spokespeople in their fields, thereby changing the conversation on issues that fill headlines. Graduates join a supportive network of alumnae who support each other in their media goals.

Upcoming 2015 WMC Progressive Women’s Voices Training Dates:
July 11 – 12 in Washington DC and July 18 – 19 in Washington, DC

To apply:
Applicants wishing to be considered for the next WMC Progressive Women’s

Voices training can find more information and the application form here.

The deadline to apply is* June 8, 2015*.
The 2015 class will be announced on* June 19, 2015*.

Women representing diverse backgrounds, areas of expertise, professions, ethnicities, ages, geographical regions, and levels of experience are encouraged to apply (including those who have previously applied).

Questions about the WMC Progressive Women’s Voices training can be sent to pwv@womensmediacenter.com.

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DSC Grad Affiliates: Call for Applicants

UO Libraries
Digital Scholarship Center
Graduate Affiliates Program
2015-2016 Academic Year

 

The University of Oregon Libraries Digital Scholarship Center seeks applicants for its 2015-2016 Graduate Affiliates Program. The Graduate Affiliates Program is an opportunity for a small group of graduate students to benefit from the resources of the Digital Scholarship Center and engage collaboratively with each other. The program is competitive and applicants will be evaluated according to how well they fit the Center’s goal to create and support a diverse, cross-disciplinary community of digital scholars.

Graduate Affiliates will:

  • Have access to the Digital Scholarship Center (the space as well as hardware and software) outside of regular hours;
  • Receive close consultation and assistance on their own digital scholarship projects (teaching or research);
  • Participate in Graduate Affiliates colloquia;
  • Have opportunities to share their knowledge and skills with other graduate students, faculty, or undergraduates.

 To Apply:

Applicants must submit a CV, a brief letter of support from your advisor, and a letter of application that describes: your current computer skills and computer skills you would like to learn; and how digital scholarship fits into your research and/or teaching agenda as a graduate student.

The deadline for applications is June 12, 2015.

Applications and questions should be directed to John Russell, Scholarly Communications Librarian, johnruss@uoregon.edu

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Call for Papers: Digital Humanities Forum 2015, University of Kansas

Digital Humanities Forum 2015

Peripheries, barriers, hierarchies: rethinking access, inclusivity, and infrastructure in global DH practice

September 25 & 26, 2015
University of Kansas
Call for proposals

Digital Humanities engages in many alternative scholarly forms and practices, and thus positions itself as a channel for exploring and challenging how social and institutional constructs shape traditional and digital academic discourses. Yet DH itself contains many non-neutral practices and is far from barrier-free. Digital Humanities practices, tools, infrastructures, and methodologies often embed a variety of assumptions that shape what kind of scholarship gets made, studied, and communicated; how it is represented to the world; and who can participate in that making and communication. A truly accessible DH goes beyond technical standards and provides people and communities of different abilities, genders, sexual orientations, languages and cultures–and of varying levels of access to technology and infrastructure–the capacity to shape and pursue scholarship that addresses their own interests and needs.

In a global context, the expansion of DH practices around the world and beyond the academy can reveal the ways in which dominant, hegemonic practices within the field tend to reinforce the very inequalities DH attempts to correct through its embrace of accessibility and knowledge production. Thus, specific practices in Global DH can call attention to the explicit and implicit contradictions in broader DH practices.

University of Kansas’ 2015 Digital Humanities Forum will take a critical approach to exploring peripheries, barriers and hierarchies of digital humanities practice in a global context, identifying those assumptions, and advocating and showcasing alternative practices to advance the field. Participants will critically engage these issues by exploring themes such as inclusivity, accessibility, global perspectives, decolonization, and democratization as they relate to digital humanities practice and infrastructure.

The Forum will take place on Saturday, September 26, following a full day of (gratis) Digital Humanities workshops on Friday, September 25.

They seek projects, research results, or critical/theoretical approaches to topics such as (but not limited to) the following:

  • How do embedded assumptions of DH practice shape what gets made, studied, and communicated;
  • The limitations of digital structures and infrastructures such as code/databases/ operating systems/interfaces/standards to represent or highlight cultural/gender/linguistic specificities, and efforts to get past these limitations;
  • Inclusion and exclusion in digital collections: archival silences, massive digital libraries, digital recovery projects;
  • “Accessible DH” that includes different abilities, languages, genders and sexual orientations, socio-economic conditions, and access to technical knowledge and infrastructure;
  • Case studies of projects focusing on accessibility and actively focusing on openness;
  • Case studies of indigenous, gendered, transnational, or “Global South” DH;
  • The concept and practice of minimal computing (sustainable computing done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, or other factors);
  • Projects exploring data in languages other than English or working towards multilingual presentation;
  • Critical making, hacking, tinkering, and non-textual modes of knowledge production;
  • “Soft infrastructures” such as ideas of ownership, copyright, and intellectual property and their impact on global DH practice.

DH Forum best student paper award: Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts of papers or poster presentations. One student presentation will be selected for an award based on the quality, originality, clarity of the written abstract, along with its alignment with the DH Forum theme and expected future impact. The awardee will be presented with a check for $400 and award certificate at the conference. Students should identify themselves as such at the time of abstract submission to be considered for the award. For a paper to be eligible, at least fifty percent of the research reported in the paper must be performed by one or more student authors, and the student must be the primary presenter of the paper at the conference.

Please submit abstracts of 500 words maximum in PDF format to idrh@ku.edu by June 1

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UO Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center Graduate Affiliates to Host 3 Grad Student Workshops

On June 8th and 9th, the UO Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center Graduate Affiliates will host three workshops for graduate students interested in incorporating digital methods into their research. On June 8th, Adam Turner, doctoral candidate in the History department, will help students learn to manage their workflow using Pandoc and Markdown. On June 9th, Matthew Hannah, doctoral candidate in the English department, will introduce students to social network analysis and Laura Strait, doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Communication, will teach students how to research using Twitter.

All workshops are free, but registration is required. To register, please email Patrick Jones at patrickj@uoregon.edu. The full schedule of workshops follows below.

Digital Scholarship Workshops Schedule:

Monday, June 8
Write For Your Future Self: Getting Started with Plain Text
Adam Turner (History)
3:00-4:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

It’s easy to get stuck in the world of Word, fighting with it over footnotes and spending hours fixing formatting. But there’s another way: In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn the basics of writing ​Markdown​ (an easy to read and write plain text format) and using ​Pandoc​ to convert that plain text into beautifully formatted documents in many formats: PDF, DOCX, HTML, LaTex, presentations, and more. Plain text is fast, flexible, system agnostic, and free. C​ ome learn more about plain text and how it can benefit your workflow for all kinds of research and writing projects.

Tuesday, June 9
Social Network Analysis with Palladio
Matthew Hannah (English)
12:00-1:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

Have you ever wanted to create social network visualizations but didn’t know how? In this workshop, Matthew Hannah, a PhD Candidate whose dissertation “Networks of Modernism” applies social network analysis to literature, will cover the basics of ​Palladio​, a free web-based network program. ​You will learn both the key terms of network analysis and begin to apply network analysis​. In addition, you will be provided with a spreadsheet to manipulate but will also learn how to create your own.

laura straitTwitter Research Methods
Laura Strait (Media Studies)
3:00-4:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

In this workshop we will learn basic techniques for ​scraping Twitter​ data using Twitter’s API in combination with a number of other tools, such as T​ warc​, and T​ witteR​. We will then learn to decode/parse this data and output it into a preferred format such as a matrix, map, or wordcloud.

To register, email Patrick Jones (patrick.jones4@gmail.com), providing your name and which workshop(s) you wish to attend.

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Ada Issue 08 IRL Peer Review Session


Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
Peer review of Issue 8: Gender, Globalization and the Digital

WHEN: 6PM on Thursday May 21
WHERE: DSC (142 Knight Library)

The peer review process is open to all members of the Fembot Collective to read and comment on the submissions. The formatting may still a work-in-progress, so we emphasize substantive feedback about content, argument, and scholarship will be much more helpful to authors at this stage in their writing.

The community review process is open only to registered members of the Fembot Collective, comments will be made public, on the review site, when the issue is finalized.

If you’re not a member of the Fembot Collective, you can find details about joining the collective [here].

 Ada Issue 8: 
“In this issue we seek essays that explore gender and sexuality concerns in digital spaces and cultures, as well as academic fields such as the digital humanities and computational sciences. Possible topics include: what is the shape of the global “gender gap”? Where are digital products produced and consumed and how do these reveal economic, social and structural inequalities? How do global flows of capitalism construct uneven modernities around the world? How do race and ethnicity intersect with the structure of gendered, global digital communities and diasporas? How does the digital provide and police spaces for organizing around trans issues? What are the networks of affect, intimacy and sexuality that grow out of digital cultures?  How are operations of interface, output and input structured by ideas of gender, sexuality and language? How do access and ableism structure issues of gender and sexuality in digital spaces?”
Read more.

 

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Penn State University Seeks Postdoctoral or Post-M.F.A. Scholar in Interdisciplinary Arts/Design Research

 

DESCRIPTION

The Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) within the College of Arts and Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a nine-month postdoctoral or post-MFA scholar in interdisciplinary arts and/or design research, to begin on August 17, 2015, with the possibility of renewal for a second academic year.In addition to a full-time salary and Penn State benefits, the fellow will receive funding in support of his/her research agenda.

Founded in 2014, the ADRI operates within the Arts & Architecture Research Office and provides seed funding, technical support, and workspace for high-impact arts and design research projects with a strong probability of attracting external funding. ADRI projects are typically collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature, push methodological boundaries, link research and teaching, make innovative use of technology, engage with university-wide research initiatives and priorities, and have the potential to garner national and international recognition.

The ADRI also coordinates and hosts a range of programming designed to foster and support innovative arts/design research and entrepreneurship. For information on current projects and recent activities, see: sites.psu.edu/adri.

The fellow will pursue her/her research/creative agenda, teach one interdisciplinary graduate course (formulated in consultation with the ADRI director) during Spring semester, and assist in providing logistical and administrative support for ADRI and its programming.

At the time of appointment, applicants must hold a terminal degree in an arts or design discipline, or a closely related field of study. They must also possess a record of innovative research/creative work appropriate to the ADRI mission.

To Apply: submit a letter of interest that details relevant qualifications and the research/creative agenda that will be pursued during the term of the residency, as well as a current CV and the names and contact information for three references. Materials must be submitted electronically.

Review of applications will begin on June 8, 2015 and continue until the position is filled.

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