In this Newsletter:
- Upcoming Events (10/10-10/21)
- Photos from Distinguished Lecture
- Locus: Comics, Data, and Community: Deadline to Participate, 10/17
- RSVP to Attend the End of Semester Faculty Meeting and Celebration
- Conference Proposal Writing Co-Work, 10/21, 2-3pm, Zoom
- Global DH Symposium - Call for Proposals Open
- DSL Project Incubator Program, Call for Applications Open, Due 10/31
- Teaching Spotlight: Mobile Media course taught by Kuhu Tanvir
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Upcoming Events
(October 10 - 21)
- Tues, Oct 11, 1:00-5:00pm, Exploring Extended Reality (XR) in Higher Education (Library, Digital Scholarship Lab)
- Thurs, Oct 13, 10:30am-12:00pm, Zotero Workshop (Online)
- Tues, Oct 18, 11:00am-12:00pm, Digital Scholarship Lab Project Incubator Program Information Session (Library, Digital Scholarship Lab, Project Room J)
- Thurs, Oct 20, 12:00-1:00pm, Text Analysis Learning Group
- Fri, Oct 21, 2:00-3:00pm, Conference Proposal Writing Co-Work (Virtual)
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Kim Christen’s visit last week
Thanks to all who attended the lecture and who met with Dr. Christen over the course of her two day visit!
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Locus: Comics, Data, and Community
Deadline to Participate: Monday, October 17
How does graphic narrative shape contemporary debates about identity and culture? What new knowledge can we create at the intersection of comics and Digital Humanities? What does it mean to use comics as data, or create comics from data?
This Locus draws on the diverse community of MSU scholars who explore comics, sequential art, and digital storytelling in their research and teaching. We encourage wide participation from scholars in any discipline to share developments in their research at any stage (including brainstorming, works in progress, invitations to collaborate, and/or fully developed projects).
Locus: Comics, Data, and Community is taking place on Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 12:00-2:00pm, in the Flex Space of the MSU Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd Floor, West).
Submit your project in the invitation to participate here.
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End of Semester Faculty Meeting and Celebration
Thursday, December 1, 4:00-5:30pm
Digital Scholarship Lab
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Conference Proposal Writing Co-Work
Are you thinking about putting together a proposal for DH conferences in 2023? Come together with MSU colleagues to share what you are thinking about and drafting! This is a friendly way to receive feedback and to see who else is interested in the conference(s) you are applying to.
This virtual event is prompted by the upcoming proposal deadlines of these conferences, but feel free to share proposals and ideas for other conferences as well.
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Global DH Symposium 2023
Call for Proposals - Due December 1
The Global DH Symposium 2023 call for proposals is now open and available in English, Spanish, and Chinese (Mandarin)!
The Symposium will run as a virtual event Monday-Wednesday, March 12-15, 2023, and an all-day in-person event at the MSU Library on Friday, March 17, 2023.
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Project Incubator Program in the Digital Scholarship Lab
Apply by October 31
Do you have a project idea that you can't seem to get off the ground? Do you need access to specific technologies or consultations with experts? Are you past the prototype phase on your project and need help getting to the next step? The Digital Scholarship Lab Incubator program supports transformative research projects at these critical junctures and shepherds them to the next phase.
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Mobile Media Course
DH Core Faculty, Kuhu Tanvir, is teaching a new course in Spring 2023 on Mobile Media. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
DH491/FLM460/DH891/FLM820
Mon, 4:10-7:00 & W, 4:10-6:00
Bessey 307
Digital technologies have been central in changing the ontology of some fundamental concepts like space, public sphere, communication and mobility. Mobility in particular is not just something that has undergone a foundational transformation with digital technology, but is arguably itself the change in how we define these concepts. This course will grapple with the very idea of mobility as it takes shape in this era of digital technology and as it, in turn, shapes our understanding of publics, politics, relationships, access and control.
This course surveys some of the ways in which we use and interact with mobile media and how these devices influence the fabric of society. The course has been divided into three broad units, the first of which introduces mobile media as a field in an attempt to understand why we need to study them as social, political and cultural phenomena. In this section, we read about the field and the cell phone as a gadget, and interrogate ideas of mobility and tactility.
The second unit examines the ways in which increased mobility affects public space and gives rise to, or alters, notions of a social sphere or a community. Here we look at some aspects of social media, specifically with respect to their functioning on cell phones. How does this affect relationships, intimacy, and how we present ourselves to the world, and engage with our social and political sphere.
The third unit includes an investigation of the encounters between mobile media and entertainment with apps like Netflix and Hulu streaming movies on smartphones, and consider the changes in how we listen to music and how musicians have adapted to the demands and possibilities of mobile media.
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