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Web Science researchers contributing at #DE2013MCUK
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
We will be invading Media City in Manchester next week for the Digital Economy’s Open Digital Conference You can check out the full programme and follow #DE2013MCUK on twitter but here is a brief summary of the Southampton contributions: Professor Dame Wendy Hall will be delivering a keynote on Wednesday. She will discuss recent developments […]
Guest blog by Su White: Athena SWAN and Southampton
by Josephine Corsi via Work Thought Blog
Su White is part of the Web and Internet Science research group in ECS. Her research interests include research-led learning, the effects of technology on education and learning, and web science. The need and value for balanced and diverse teams and equality of treatment of all staff are two principles which […]
sotonDH Small Grants: Re-scoring Princess Iron fan – Post 1
by Yu-Ching Cha via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
sotonDH Small Grants: Re-scoring Princess Iron fan (1941) for PhD composition portfolio – Post 1 by Yu-Ching Cha Introduction to the research This portfolio of compositions centres around a complete re-scoring of the 73 minute long Chinese animated film Princess Iron Fan (1941), combining contemporary Western scoring methods and aesthetics with source material from the Tang Dynasty, when the story …
sotonDH Small Grants: reBook: The Beginning – Post 1
by Luke Goater via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
sotonDH Small Grants: reBook: The Beginning – Post 1 by James Cole Prologue: Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then log on and I’ll begin. The nature of story-telling is changing. Heralded by the closure of Borders in 2011 and with online retailing giant Amazon’s statement earlier this year that sales of ebooks are ‘up approximately 70 percent ’ from 2012, …
Hestia2 in Stanford: complex data visualisation
by Tom Brughmans via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
Remember the Hestia2 event we organised in Southampton in July with The Connected Past? Time for more of that! The Hestia project is pleased to announce its second community event, which will take place at Stanford University on 4-5 November 2013. The two-day workshop, hosted by Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, will tackle the issue of visualizing complex …
The Web Science Institute (WSI) launches its 2013/4 Programme
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
The Web Science Institute (WSI) launches its 2013/4 Programme – 11th November 11:30am to 2pm – Nuffield Theatre “Green Room” Cafe. Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Professor Susan Halford, Professor Hugh Davis and Professor Les Carr invite you to the launch of the new Web Science Institute’s programme for the 2013/4 academic year, […]
Creative DigiFest and Dragon’s Den #SXSC3
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
Tickets for this event are going fast, and new workshops are still being added to the agenda – please see below for the latest information. Here’s a reminder of last year’s event Date: 19.11.2013 Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm Location: Mayflower Suite, De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton Registration: Please book your place here Creating value […]
sotonDH Small Grants: English accents and identity – Post 1
by Fan Fang via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
sotonDH Small Grants: English accents and identity – Post 1 by Fan Fang English is used worldwide as an international language for speakers of different languages and cultural backgrounds. My PhD project looks at the attitudes of Chinese university teachers’ and students’ towards their own and other English accents in the framework of English as a lingua franca (ELF), and …
sotonDH Small Grants: Investigation into Synthesizer Parameter Mapping and Interaction for Sound Design Purposes – Post 1
by Darrell Gibson via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
sotonDH Small Grants: Investigation into Synthesizer Parameter Mapping and Interaction for Sound Design Purposes – Post 1 by Darrell Gibson Introduction The phrase “sound design” first started being used in the film industry in the 1970s [1]. Since this time it has been used in many different contexts and now means different things, to different people so it is worth …
sotonDH Small Grants: Visualising intertextual dimensions of the Gothic itinerary in George Sand’s Consuelo and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt – Post 1
by Marilyn Mallia via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
sotonDH Small Grants: Visualising intertextual dimensions of the Gothic itinerary in George Sand’s Consuelo (1842) and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1843) – Post 1 by Marilyn Mallia I am a 3rd year PhD student in Modern Languages, and my thesis investigates the uses French writer George Sand makes of the English Gothic Novel in her novels. ‘Intertextuality’ of this comparative …