Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media

We propose the creation of a Center for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture (formerly titled Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media). The Center will address two related grand challenges: the need to investigate the relationship of computing technologies and culture, and the need to construct cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. The Center’s research, focused in four interrelated areas -- the cultural record, cultural systems, cultural environments, and cultural interactions in the digital age – engages one of the most compelling questions of our time: What does it mean to be human in the digital age

Are We Having Fun Yet

This presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to consider when dealing with multiple faculty and students, an issue that can become thorny, particularly as projects change and grow, despite good intentions. How do we properly credit any work that is done to publicize or publish these multidisciplinary projects that universities and funding agencies are encouraging and oftentimes are requiring academics to secure in order to receive shrinking dollars?Texas A&M University's Division of Research PESCA funds and the University Libraries

Are We Having Fun Yet

This presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to consider when dealing with multiple faculty and students, an issue that can become thorny, particularly as projects change and grow, despite good intentions. How do we properly credit any work that is done to publicize or publish these multidisciplinary projects that universities and funding agencies are encouraging and oftentimes are requiring academics to secure in order to receive shrinking dollars?Texas A&M University's Division of Research PESCA funds and the University Libraries