Winter Top Ten

In need of a study breather? Look no further, here are some of our favorite fun and useful resources we have collected over the last few months –

1. Voyant – a scholarly project designed to facilitate reading, analysis, and interpretive practices for digital humanities students, scholars, and the public. Useful for analyzing text, add functionality and interactive interfaces to essays and blogs, develop your own tools. Explore this example.

2. Data & Society Podcast – audio of talks, interviews, and presentations from Data & Society, a research institute focused on social and cultural issues in data-centric technology development.

3. codeacademy.com – a free, interactive resource for new and continuing coders, just create an account and begin!

4. Small Radios, Big Televisions through a beautiful interface that echoes the computer games and digital animation of the 1990s, this game offers a commentary on digital versus analog media, nostalgia, and the impact of industrialism.

5. The Pedagogy Project – a continually growing resource for projects and syllabi in the digital humanities classroom

6. DiscoverDesign.org – a free digital platform where anyone can learn about architecture and design through the completion of design challenges, receiving feedback from real teachers and professionals in the field.

7. Matters in Media Art – a resource for collectors, artists, and institutions caring for works of art that have moving images, electronic or digital components. Practical tools and examples for preserving this developing art form.

8. Metadata Games Project – a free and open source game platform in which players use images, video, and audio from libraries, archives, and museums, which in turn gain valuable descriptions, making it easier for the general public and scholars to discover their collections.

9. Net Art Anthology: Group Z, Belgium (MichaĆ«l Samyn)’s LOVE (1995) – a series of seven stories arranged in a navigable grid of HTML files created to emphasize the structural possibilities of the internet. Images, text, and interactive compositions map a range of experiences associated with romantic love through which the user navigates.

10. Scalar – a free, open-source, digital publishing platform from The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture that provides a simple interface and tools similar to a blog for ‘born-digital’ books and essays. Great for collaborative authoring and media-centered projects.

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