Melanie Walsh
@mellymeldubs.bsky.social
Asst Prof @ University of Washington Information School // PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis I’m interested in books, data, social media, and digital humanities. They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court 🏀 https://melaniewalsh.org/
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You can read & download the chapter for free in the new open-access volume, Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures (edited by Matthew Kilbane). I highly recommend checking out the whole book! Especially if you're interested in literature and social media. www.fulcrum.org/epubs/q524jr...
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TIL MARC records—the metadata backbone of libraries— were created in the 1960s by Henriette Avram, a computer programmer who worked at the NSA before joining the Library of Congress. Carla Hayden called this her favorite image in _The Card Catalog_ 😢: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
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As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology
We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way. Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback. Proposals are due December 1!
