The field of Digital Humanities has been a significant influence on the way I work. There are many debates about the nature of Digital Humanities is but very broadly it covers the work humanities researchers do when they study the use of digital technology in society, adopt research methods which draw heavily on digital technology and present their findings using digital … [Read more...] about Reflections on a Day at Digital Humanities Australasia 2016
Conferences
The Loud Sounds of Many Fingers Typing
This series of posts has largely celebrated the tweeting of this year’s Australian Historical Association Conference. Overall we did well at sharing the news of the conference online. But while we should celebrate our achievements, we should at the same time keep a sense of proportion on all this. Twitter is not everything and neither is social media. The vast majority of … [Read more...] about The Loud Sounds of Many Fingers Typing
Top Retweets from 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
Retweeting amplifies tweets. One tweet is ephemeral. It can easily be lost in the deluge of tweets that are emitted at the same time. Retweeting is one way that tweeps catch tweets that appeal to them and increase the volume on those tweets. The tweet is sent again but to a slightly different audience and at a different time. A tweet that is retweeted many times has something … [Read more...] about Top Retweets from 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
Twitter Themes During 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
During the four days of open sessions at the conference, participants tweeted over forty thousand words excluding hashtags and Twitter handles. This year’s conference had the biggest Twitter stream of any Australian Historical Association conference since 2012 and as my last post showed, more people tweeted the conference than ever before. A conference Twitter stream is a news … [Read more...] about Twitter Themes During 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
#OzHA2015 Conference Tweets – the numbers and the people
Back in 2012 some Australian historians were following the annual conference of the American Historical Association on Twitter. We did the Australian thing and stayed up late to follow a live event in another country and immersed ourselves in the torrent of tweets from conference participants reporting the events via the #AHA2012 hashtag. I have written about this, my first … [Read more...] about #OzHA2015 Conference Tweets – the numbers and the people