It’s nearly IMC Leeds time again! I will be there at the University of Leeds on July 3-6, along with approximately 2000 other medievalists. This year I am continuing in my tradition of compiling digital humanities, digitally inflected, and DH-adjacent …
Back in 2014, I began compiling a List on Twitter of Medieval Studies scholars and handles. At that time, I compiled 801 Twitter handles together. Since then, the list has grown in spurts, and now it has 1,068 people and …
It’s nearly Kzoo time again! I will be there at Western Michigan University on May 11-14, along with approximately 3000 other medievalists. This year I am continuing in my tradition of compiling digital humanities, digitally inflected, and DH-adjacent sessions, papers, …
I archive hashtags on Twitter pretty frequently. (See #kzoo2014, #babel15, #hastac2015, here, and here, for example) Whether it’s to provide a record of a conference or to see how a particular community uses the rhetoric of a particular hashtag over time, this …
I recently presented at the International Medieval Congress (#IMC2015) at the University of Leeds in a session entitled “The Twitterati: Using Twitter in Medieval Studies Scholarship and Pedagogy.” It was a quick moving jaunt through the different ways that academics …
As over 2000 medievalists (myself included) prepare for the International Medieval Congress at University of Leeds (UK), I want to share a list I have compiled of digital humanities related and digitally inflected sessions and papers at the conference. This year, …
As thousands of medievalists (myself included) prepare for the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan), aka Kzoo, I want to share a list I have compiled of digital humanities and digitally inflected sessions and …
When research I conducted last November on “Social Media Adoption by Medievalists” (slides here) showed that only 18% of scholars who adopted a public social media platform used Twitter, I was a bit surprised. There obviously are many more scholars on …
This weekend was the French of Outremer Conference, hosted by Fordham University’s Center for Medieval Studies. It was an intriguing topic and a great crowd of people. Thoughtful conversations and exciting connections abounded over the course of one and a half …
Today I will be giving a workshop on how academics can Twitter professionally and why it’s a good idea. The presentation is linked below. A more explanatory handout will follow in the next day or so. I also …