Current Activities and Announcements:
- Spring 2012 Teaching ISIS 200: Research Capstone Senior-level course for students enrolled in the Information Science + Information Studies Undergraduate Certificate. The semester project will be announced soon! First meeting will be in Smith Warehouse Bay 12, Room 228, on Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Subsequent meetings will take place in 228 and in the GreaterThanGames Lab in Smith…
- MLA 2012 – “Digital Humanities versus New Media” AT MLA 2012 I'll be presenting on a panel I organized called Digital Humanities versus New Media. The topic of my presentation is "Digital Humanities Authorship as the Object of New Media Studies." (See also Stanley Fish's recent NYT Opinionator piece that mentions our session.) I'll also be helping with the pre-conference session on Evaluating…
- HASTAC V Presentation on Digital Scholarly Communication Digital Scholarly Communication – Notes from the Wired! Lab for Digital Historical Visualization, HASTAC V Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, December 02, 2011. Panel presentation with Mark Olson, Elizabeth Baltes, and Erica Sherman in Ann Arbor, MI. My part of the talk is represented by slides 13-16 in the slidedeck from our panel (PDF).
- Historical GIS and Digital Humanities: A Conversation at the Intersection Recent event at UNC-Chapel Hill: HGIS Carolina Presents: Historical GIS and the Digital Humanities: A Conversation at the Intersection Friday, November 18, 2011 2PM, Davis 214 (Davis Library on UNC-CH Campus) Panelists: Victoria Szabo (Duke) Richard Marciano (UNC) Pam Lach (UNC) Moderator: Susanna Lee (NC State) "This will be the event of the year for…
- A Primer for Digital Media Authorship: Placing the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition of 1851 Wired! at Lunch series presentation on current research projects and future directions. This presentation combined my interest in the affordances of digital media authorship with the potential for specific interventions around an historic exhibition and its associated materials and contexts. Slidedeck PDF.
- 19th Century Caribbean Cholera Project Published! Deborah Jenson , Victoria Szabo, and the Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Laboratory Student Research Team, Cholera In Haiti and Other Caribbean Regions, 19th Century, edited by Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 17 no. 11 (November, 2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110958.) . I was the second author, and the primary author responsible for the…
- Gaming the Real: The Convergence of Maps, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds at SLSA 2011 Gaming the Real: The Convergence of Maps, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds, Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA), Kitchener, Ontario, September 16, 2011. Slidedeck here as PDF. SLSA Program.
- SIGGRAPH 2011 “Tracing Home” Gallery Augmented Reality Experience V.E. Szabo, Augmented SIGGRAPH/Vancouver (August, 2011) (Augmented Reality experience juxtaposing Art Gallery work with local Vancouver sights via an augmented reality browser). See the Layar App on iPhone/iPad and search for SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery.
- Fall 2011 Teaching ISIS 140/AMI 167/VMS 120 (R, ALP, QS) Foundations of Web-Based Multimedia Communication Smith Warehouse, Bay 12, Room 228 Introduction to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for beginners, along with basic multimedia production. Primarily a hands-on coding course, with additional materials on information and graphic design principles. Individual and group projects culminate in an individual hand-crafted informational…
- Kenan Institute for Ethics “Good Question” series The Kenan Institute asked me to respond to the following question for their "Good Question" series of brochures circulated around campus and online in Spring 2011: What happens when we blur the line between what is virtual and what is real, and what are the dangers or opportunities in doing so? My answer: Full Piece…
