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Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

tl;dr Basic numbers on DH2016 submissions. Twice a year I indulge my meta-disciplinary sweet tooth: once to look at who’s submitting what to ADHO’s annual digital humanities conference, and once to look at which pieces get accepted (see the rest of the series). This post presents my first look at DH2016 conference submissions, the data for which I scraped […]

Down the Rabbit Hole

WHEREIN I get angry at the internet and yell at it to get off my lawn. You know what’s cool? Ryan Cordell and friends’ Viral Texts project. It tracks how 19th-century U.S. newspapers used to copy texts from each other, little snippets of news or information, and republish them in their own publications. A single snippet of […]

Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (part 4)

tl;dr Women are (nearly but not quite) as likely as men to be accepted by peer reviewers at DH conferences, but names foreign to the US are less likely than either men or women to be accepted to these conferences. Some topics are more likely to be written on by women (gender, culture, teaching DH, […]

Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (part 3)

tl;dr There’s a disparity between gender diversity in authorship and attendance at DH2015; attendees are diverse, authors aren’t. That said, the geography of attendance is actually pretty encouraging this year. A lot of this work draws a project on the history of DH conferences I’m undertaking with the inimitable Nickoal Eichmann. She’s been integral on the research […]

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Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

Down the Rabbit Hole

Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (part 4)

Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (part 3)