GW Libraries receives major grant to aggregate tweets
Read more about this grant and Social Feed Manager at this article that just appeared at GW Today.
Read more about this grant and Social Feed Manager at this article that just appeared at GW Today.
Today is International Mother Language Day! People worldwide are tweeting in indigenous and other languages in an effort to celebrate global linguistic diversity. Many of the tweets appearing with the #MotherTongue and #IMLD2015 hashtags also showcase archival and digitization efforts underway to help promote and sustain minority languages. To read more about the history of…
Tomorrow, Prof. Diane H. Cline (History) will give a seminar as part of a faculty series in the Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering (EMSE) in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS). We hope some of you can attend! The seminar will be held in the EMSE Conference Room (1776 G Street, Room 120). Here is…
On October 2nd and 3rd, 2015, the University of Maryland will host an exciting dual event: the Transformative Digital Humanities Conference and THATCamp TransformDH, a collaborative, impromptu “unconference”, where all participants will join in creative play together in sessions proposed on the spot. Speakers include keynote presenter Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures…
GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin received the Trachtenberg award for research as well as a Writing in the Discipline teaching award in 2022.
The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. joined PIT-UN in 2020, bringing a wealth of public interest technology experience and expertise to the network. The school has a long history of dedication to the public interest, and in recent years has made public interest technology a particular focus for students and faculty in coding, data…
On December 2, GW student groups staged a four-hour “die-in” event to protest recent events in Ferguson, MO, and to make calls for social justice on campus, in the community, and beyond. This event was aggressively promoted on social media (Facebook page and on twitter using the hashtag #GWFerguson) and it was widely documented on tumblr and other platforms. As…