Digital Humanities
DH@MSU brings together a diverse group of faculty, staff, and students and builds a vibrant digital humanities community supporting advanced, innovative research, scholarship, pedagogy, and public engagement at a national and international level.
We offer
Transformative Research and Pedagogy
Hands-on use of digital methods and tools to expand critical potential and explore diverse forms of cultural production
Collaborative
Community
Emphasis in cross-unit collaborations and community through interdisciplinary partnerships drawing from Core and Affiliated faculty from 17 units around campus
Events that cultivate the DH@MSU Community
Public
Engagement
The Global DH Symposium gathers people from around the world and across MSU’s campus in the planning of the event as well as the event itself
DH@MSU supports research that leads to social action
Digital methodologies for humanistic study, backed by humanistic understandings of the digital
Build hands-on digital skills while developing a critical perspective on digital technology
The DH@MSU Community
THATCamp is an annual Unconference for MSU faculty, staff, and students to bring people back together after the summer and introduce new folks to the DH@MSU community
Locus is a regular forum formed around a theme for students, faculty, and researchers to share ideas and works in progress and to build relationships through short (5-7 minute) presentations
Distinguished Lecture Series
DH@MSU presents annual Distinguished Lectures to the community, in which speakers from off campus and on campus showcase their work
DH Research Highlights
RT @MSU_dhilab: Well, this looks interesting. An addon that lets you do photogrammetry within Blender....on a Mac
Read MoreJoin the planning committee for #MSUDH's August 2023 in-peron THATCamp! Looking for students, staff, & faculty to join us, especially those who attended previous DH THATCamps! Contact @cantus94 by Friday April 21st to join us, or if you have any questions! https://t.co/N0T6eA6ESv
Read MoreRT @tophkat: Looking forward to next week's #GraphicPossibilities @wikidata Edit-a-thon & Workshop! We'll be working with data about bronz…
Read MoreAaaand...that's a wrap for #msuglobaldh 2023! Thanks to all presenters, attendees, planning committee @msulibraries staff, student workers, volunteers and all who made this amazing event happen! To next year!
Read MoreBut none that are connected. @kfitz wants everyone to join them to free from corporate overlords! 5/5 #msuglobaldh
Read Morefound that underlying software was also not updated, but since has been updated. Tech challenges were significant but they've learned a lot. Thinking about underlying protocols of the fediverse. Sees hcommons as a swiss army knife. Knows there are better sources 4/5 #msuglobaldh
Read More.@kfitz discusses getting much better engagement on Mastadon, then on Twitter. Says we can just leave Twitter. Discusses to see how Fediverse would work. Started it (hadn't been updated in 3 years), started updating it... #msuglobaldh 3/5
Read MoreDiscusses #twittercollapse. Created Mastadon instance. . Draper banking that 5th wave of social is the future. Reminds that Twitter wasn't always great. Mastadon can get better. 2/5 #msuglobaldh
Read MoreJesse Draper & @kfitz discusses 5th wave of social media (decentralization). @HNet_Humanities was early decentralized, federation space. Moved to centralized space @michiganstateu. H-Net "missed the boat on 3rd (FB, Myspace) and 4th wave (IG, Twitter) of social. 1/5 #msuglobaldh
Read MoreRT @MSUGlobalDH: For our last presentation of the afternoon, Jesse Draper and Kathleen Fitzpatrick present “Into the Fediverse – An Opportu…
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