Born to be Digital: New Technologies in Research and Publishing
BORN TO BE DIGITAL: NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING
Friday, April 17, 10:00-12:00 in the Shields Library Instruction Lab
Roberto Delgadillo, Resource Librarian
Jennifer Langdon, Associate Director of the Davis Humanities Institute
Toby Beauchamp, Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies
Funding opportunities for graduate students
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- $25K stipend
- $3K research costs
- $5K in university fees
*This is not strictly for digital scholarship, but ACLS has a general interest in digital/technical innovation.
USC Vectors-Institute for Multimedia Literacy: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program.
- Fellows who participate in the program will create their own digital media projects.
- Selected projects will also be featured in Vectors.
- $3500 stipend + room and board allowance.
Journals: 3 basic types of online publication
Multimedia-based scholarship:
Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
On-line, open-source, peer reviewed:
On-line, available through library subscription, largely pdf copies of text, peer-reviewed:
Additional resources
HASTAC forum on digital publishing
Integrating multimedia in the classroom, Viet Thanh Nguyen, USC
“Multimedia as Composition: Research, Writing, and Creativity”
Cathy Davidson’s blog, with reply by Jim Jordon, Director of Columbia University Press
Robert Darnton, “What Is the Gutenberg-e Project?”
Edward L. Ayers, “The Pasts and Futures of Digital History”
University of Virginia
Home Page: Virginia Center for Digital History
Home Page: Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
David Lester, “Dreams of digital media street teams” Finding America (blog)