As readers of this blog know, I’m intrigued by how AI has become the latest raw material for the outrage factory (on social media). To be clear, I’m not an AI apologist nor some kind of fanboy. I have found some of its capacities useful — especially for analyzing very large bodies of unstructured text… Read More →
In the lead up to the new semester, there is a lot of buzz about dealing with AIs in the classroom and the predictable gaggle of well-meaning, but angst-ridden punditry about how ubiquitous access to AI will “change everything” and how unprepared “we” (faculty?) is for the change that’s about to happen. This all seems… Read More →
Over the last year or so I’ve been trying to add a bit of analogue to my largely digital workflow. I’ve been thinking of it a bit like adding a tube-stage to a DAC, but unlike the largely impressionistic world of audiophile, there seems to be a growing body of research backing the idea that… Read More →
As I’m preparing my book for final submission, I am confronted with the groan-worthy task of having to prepare abstracts not only for the entire book, which is to be expected, but also abstracts for every chapter (presumably for digital circulation). This is a good bit of work and I started to fool around a… Read More →
Early this week, I had the pleasure of participating (and I use that word broadly) in a seminar focused on teaching with ChatGPT. The participants in the seminar were really outstanding and shared range of practical and theoretical approaches to teaching with ChatGPT. I was frankly blown away by the thoughtfulness and expertise on the… Read More →
Over the weekend, I got a chance to read Colleen Morgan’s thoughtful review of digital archaeology published in the Annual Review of Archaeology this past month. The piece surveys recent trends in digital archaeology and, more important, urges the discipline forward toward a more reflective, ethical, and meaningful directions. Unlike many approaches to digital practice in archaeology… Read More →
I submitted grades, my summer plans are coming into focus, and I’m almost ready to decamp for the Mediterranean for the first time in two years. I feel like everything is going on at once, and this is more or less a good thing and it feels like a solid backdrop for a Three Things… Read More →
Yesterday, I learned that Diana Gilliland Wright had died earlier this month. I didn’t know her very well and, in fact, I can’t exactly remember if I had ever met her. I knew her mostly via email, comments on my blog, and her own voluminous blogging output. Over the last decade, as my research interest… Read More →
As another hectic week staggers toward its inevitable close, I’m lucky enough to have so much on my plate that I can’t decide where to start. As a result, we’re going to once again take the buffet approach and offer a little three things Thursday sampler. As always, I hope to turn one of these… Read More →
It should come as no surprise that I’m a big fan of Shawn Graham’s work. After all, my press not only published his previous book, Failing Gloriously and Other Essays, but also collaborates with with him to publish the paper version of the journal Epoiesen. Shawn was also among the first scholars to push back against my ideas… Read More →
It’s with great pleasure that we recognize that Shawn Graham’s Failing Gloriously and Other Essays won a Digital Humanities Award for 2019. It is fitting, of course, that it won the award for the category of “Best Exploration of DH Failure.” We’re excited to refer to this book as “award winning Failing Gloriously” and to celebrate… Read More →
It feels like I have a ton going on right now (although I’m sure it’s not nearly as much as other people do on a daily basis!). I’m finishing a paper that I’m scheduled to give in a couple of weeks in the UK (coronavirus permitting), I’m working on a chapter for my book, and… Read More →
With the ASOR annual meeting not even begun, I’m already being gently nudged to think about my paper for the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting in January. Fotini Kondyli and Jon Frey have organized a panel on legacy data in archaeology, and according to the abstract that I wrote a few months ago, my… Read More →
There’s one more week before the start of classes, and I’m trying to wrap up some small projects that have been lingering around all summer. The first one on the list is putting together the “almost final version” of my paper for last fall’s DATAM: Digital Approaches for Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean conference at NYU’s ISAW (I… Read More →
Last week Neville Morley wrote a little piece on his declining blog statistics over at his Sphinx blog and has since followed it up with a new podcast. I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast yet and I should have commented on his blog post when he asked other bloggers to chime in on… Read More →
This weekend I read and really enjoyed Nanna Bonde Thylstrup’s The Politics of Mass Digitization (2018). The book considered the approaches, implications, and politics behind the early 21st century move to mass digitization. Thylstrup unpacks the responses, for example, to Google Books from the European Union and their Europeana portal or platform to the various shadow libraries that emerged to provide… Read More →
