Nexus Digital Research Co-Op

From our Nexus Director and HASTAC Co-Director, Dr. Jacque Wernimont:

"In light of the FB/CA privacy discussions, I'm seeking your thoughts on how to get academic insight/warning to register more effectively in the 'general public'"

Can We Do Better Than a 10 Year Gap in Knowledge (re: digital privacy, ethics, etc)? I have been chewing on a topic and I could use others' help. I, like many others, am frustrated by the enormous time gap between scholarly understanding of the privacy issues in digital media technology here in the U.S. and public and political awareness.

Digital Studies Fellows Application – Digital Studies Center

ASU scholars preserve Phoenix history Researchers from across Arizona State University are coming together to analyze, preserve and revitalize historic materials found during the renovation of Park Central Mall in midtown Phoenix. The materials found range from old photographs and advertisements to microfilm reels and antique signage, a...

Boosting this excellent event, sponsored by the Lincoln Center, College of Public Service and Community Solutions, and the School of Politics and Global Studies.

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-also-know-stuff-starting-and-sustaining-a-movement-tickets-36967410520

2017/11/06 | Women Also Know Stuff with Dr. Samara Klar – nexus Women Also Know Stuff: Starting and Sustaining a Movement Women Also Know Stuff with Dr. Samara Klar 1 A talk with Dr. Samara KlarWomen Also Know Stuff: Starting and Sustaining a Movement In 2016, Samara Klar, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona, started www.WomenAl...

"Nexus has been a leading effort on the ASU campus to transform research and teaching in the humanities and this next iteration continues and extends that tradition..."

Read more from Nexus director, Dr. Jacqueline Wernimont, at the below post!

Iterations: Nexus is now a digital research co-op Co-ops are wonderful, communal efforts – sometimes they have physical spaces and those are very special places in my opinion. Historically they’ve arisen from common needs and a willing…

Thank you to those who visited Nexus Lab for our lunch with Dr. André Brock yesterday!

Thank you especially to ASU Department of English and ASU Institute for Humanities Research for bringing Dr. Brock to ASU for an exciting day of conversation.

Read about our second spring workshop, Decision Design & Visual Analytics for Sustainability Applications, here: http://www.nexuslab.org/news/spring-2016-workshop-recap-decision-design-visual-analytics-sustainability-applications.

Spring 2016 Workshop Recap: Decision Design & Visual Analytics for Sustainability Applications The Decision Design and Visual Analytics for Sustainability Applications workshop, run by the Institute for Humanities Research Nexus Lab this past spring, is an excellent example of the kind of transdisciplinary and engaged humanities scholarship for the 21st century that both ASU and the IHR gener...

Department of English faculty associate John Henry Adams reflects on the Nexus Lab's spring workshop on user experience (UX), led by postdoctoral research fellow Dawn Opel, on our blog: http://www.nexuslab.org/news/spring-2016-workshop-recap-user-experience-technology

Spring 2016 Workshop Recap: User Experience with Technology At the start of the 2016 spring semester, the IHR Nexus Lab offered a free workshop on user experience (UX), an approach to design that draws from the humanities and STEM fields to think about how people will engage with the product. All too often, designers focus on the tangible benefits of a new p...

School of Human Evolution and Social Change students are working to create a digital archive of artifacts from the ASU Teotihuacan Research Lab. Check them out: https://vimeo.com/169647342?platform=hootsuite

Museum Studies graduate students at Teotihuacan This is "Museum Studies graduate students at Teotihuacan" by asunow on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

ASU researchers are presenting at Phoenix Comicon this week, including Nexus Lab collaborator Carrie Gillon! https://asunow.asu.edu/20160531-creativity-asu-researchers-phoenix-comicon

Researchers, assemble! How much of the “science” we see in sci-fi is real or could be real? Does it have any sort of grounding in reality? Scientists and researchers from Arizona State University will answer these and other questions in June at the annual Phoenix Comicon as part of the event’s science track.

New Keyboard App Helps Preserve Indigenous Languages: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-aboriginal-keyboard-app-is-helping-preserve-indigenous-languages

This Aboriginal Keyboard App Is Helping Preserve Indigenous Languages With FirstVoices Keyboards, “you can text an elder now.”

"You've got mail: Digital tools help scholars map 18th century correspondence networks" c/o National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/novemberdecember/feature/mapping-the-republic-letters

Mapping the Republic of Letters