COMM 665—Communication and Technology

Patrick Burkart, pburkart@tamu.edu

Spring 2013

Mondays, 6:00-9:00

"So it's come to your attention that, *gulp*, you are going to have to learn to code something."

Andrea Zellner weighs in on "Learning to Code" and the resources available to students across disciplines in a recent GradHacker article. As our educational and academic climate change, reflections and advice, as seen in Zellner's article, are great resources!

Check out the full article here.

The Penn State Libraries invite applicants and nominations for a Digital
Humanities Design Consultant:

Programmer Needed

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria is looking for a full-time (35 hours per week) programmer to assist in the development of Web tools for humanities-related research, as well as to work in and around social media and digital scholarly editions.

The successful candidate will have a Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent experience, and demonstrated experience in the following tools and technologies:

For the 2012 Convention (THE place where academics in language and literature departments get jobs), the Modern Language Association which hosts the conference decided to sponsor two full panels on what Bethany Nowviskie calls "the alt-ac track." "Alt-ac" comes from the Twitter hashtag #alt-ac, and it expands to "alternate academic," meaning alternate careers for academics.

Bethany Nowviskie published a great blog about abolishing intro methodology courses in humanities disciplines: "It starts on day one"