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Miriam Posner

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Digital humanities, data, labor, and information

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155 from 25 Mar 2009 to 12 Jan 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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2026 1

  1. Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning

2025 3

  1. Lesser-known BruinLearn tools you might actually use
  2. Tenure
  3. Teaching tools I use right now

2023 1

  1. Care, capital, and COVID

2021 1

  1. Teaching technical skills online

2020 1

  1. Sitting with the rage

2018 1

  1. Several new publications

2017 3

  1. Scaling up DH101
  2. Data Packages for DH Beginners
  3. New job, same school! (Same office, even!)

2016 4

  1. New tutorials on network analysis with Cytoscape
  2. New book chapter
  3. Materials on Image-Mining for Medical History
  4. Money and Time

2015 11

  1. A better way to teach technical skills to a group
  2. Rehabbing DH101
  3. The (sort-of) selfies class
  4. What’s in your conference travel bag?
  5. “Stronger and Whiter Light Down Deeper and Darker Holes”: Jacob Sarnoff and the Strange World of Anatomical Filmmaking
  6. What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities
  7. The Case of the Missing Faces
  8. Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction
  9. Google Fusion Table Basics with IU’s Cushman Collection
  10. A fun way to introduce DH students to dataviz
  11. Hackathon on Police Brutality, Feb. 14 at UCLA

2014 11

  1. Photography and the limits of empathy: Reading Garner and Brown through Saidiya Hartman
  2. Getting started with Palladio
  3. New course for winter: Selfies, Snapchat, and Cyberbullies: Coming of Age Online
  4. Here and There: Creating DH Community
  5. Frequently asked questions about lobotomy
  6. How Did They Make That? The Video!
  7. Reflections on my digital materiality and labor class
  8. How Did They Make That? at CUNY, March 27, 2014
  9. Commit to DH people, not DH projects
  10. Advanced Scroll Kit Techniques: The Parallax Effect
  11. Basics of Creating a Scroll Kit Narrative

2013 13

  1. New course for winter 2014: Digital Labor and Materiality
  2. What Alt-Ac Can Do, and What It Can’t
  3. A dead-simple weekly email: A little workflow for bringing people together
  4. How did they make that?
  5. Using Mozilla Popcorn Maker to Create an Interactive Video
  6. Digital humanities and the allure of the absurd
  7. My “day of digital humanities”
  8. Creating an Omeka Exhibit
  9. Up and Running with Omeka.net
  10. How to accommodate a breastpumping mom at your event
  11. Digital humanities and media studies: staging an encounter
  12. Dora (or: why I’ve been slow returning emails)
  13. No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library

2012 14

  1. Notes on DH and sharing your work
  2. Very basic strategies for interpreting results from the Topic Modeling Tool
  3. Flesh made light: investigating X-ray films
  4. What are some challenges to doing DH in the library?
  5. Use Automator to combine your research photos into one PDF
  6. Call for participants: SCMS workshop on digital humanities and film/media studies
  7. The digital humanities postdoc
  8. Training grad students for a new scholarly landscape
  9. Things we share
  10. Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code
  11. The wind in the trees: Regimes of attention
  12. Utopianism and its detractors
  13. Why I went (back) to the AHA
  14. Dissertation advice

2011 29

  1. Leaving Emory, joining UCLA
  2. Research tools redux: What I use
  3. The subtle art of workshop-giving
  4. Reading Steve Jobs: labor, race, and growing up in the Bay Area
  5. Embarrassments of riches: Managing research assets
  6. Install WordPress on your Mac
  7. Teaching HTML & CSS
  8. Customize your network visualization
  9. Visualize a network of film casts and crews
  10. My Ada
  11. History, Narrative, and the Body
  12. Some basic things you should know about being in a Ph.D. program
  13. So, you’re moving to New Haven: Do you need a car? (Answer: No.)
  14. Thoughts on the Scholarly Communication Institute
  15. An eventful few months
  16. Yale’s film studies “canon”: the readings
  17. PowerPoint as a mode of knowledge production
  18. Depth Perception: Surgical Film and the Problem of Anatomical Legibility
  19. Making room in the academy for everyone: Margaret Price on kairotic space
  20. The best thing I found at NARA
  21. The iPad in academic settings: what I like, what I’d like to see
  22. Anatomy on film: the imaginary archive
  23. Film Study: an iPad app built for cinephiles
  24. Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States
  25. Opposite sides of the cafetorium: notes from a THATCamp Southeast session on librarian-scholar collaboration
  26. Batch-processing photos from your archive trip
  27. Multimedia ebooks (THATCamp SE session idea)
  28. Head and Shoulder Hunting in the Americas
  29. What I Do All Day

2010 17

  1. Walter Freeman’s photographic forebears
  2. Writing about lobotomy photographs
  3. Technology postcards, which are exciting to me (but probably not to you) because I made them!
  4. So, you’re moving to New Haven: what to do
  5. Everybody must get spammed!
  6. How to ask questions at academic presentations without being a jerk
  7. What I learned from the Scholars’ Lab and the Center for History and New Media
  8. PDP video available (mostly)
  9. A quick work update
  10. So, you’re moving to New Haven: where to live
  11. … and PDP is a success!
  12. A happy announcement!
  13. Only fair!
  14. Yale’s Film Studies “canon”
  15. The internet worked again!
  16. Hey, the internet worked!
  17. A conference on exhibition at Yale

2009 45

  1. Building a conference website on WordPress
  2. Searchable database of AIDS-related obituaries
  3. As film studies goes digital
  4. A Digital Humanities Conference at Yale
  5. Miriam, on tape
  6. Very practical advice for a first-time T.A.
  7. Radio in the classroom
  8. So, you want to make a website
  9. Forget my hard drive, I’m moving to the cloud
  10. A new summer job and assorted busy-ness
  11. Academic travel survival guide
  12. Dapper: Create an RSS feed for sites that don’t have one
  13. Documentary filmmakers and DVD encryption
  14. A dustyard of graves
  15. The best-laid plans …
  16. Pro-capitalism cartoon from 1948
  17. Make tutorials dead-simple with ScreenSteps
  18. When in doubt, ask a real person
  19. Beyond Bullet Points, or maybe not
  20. The National Library of Medicine launches new image database
  21. How to make a DVD clip reel
  22. New York Times contributor: End the university as we know it
  23. Presenting, conferencing, sharing
  24. Top 10 iPhone Apps for Librarians
  25. The World Digital Library shows off artifacts from around the world
  26. Zoom in and out of presentations with Prezi
  27. Make a quick timeline with Google News Timeline
  28. Can Blackboard patent online learning?
  29. Google Book Search update: the Internet Archive seeks to intervene
  30. The deal with the Google Book Search settlement
  31. I do not understand the point of curated databases
  32. Resources for the sporting male
  33. Blogging the Beinecke
  34. Getting meta in the classroom
  35. Libraries I like: Brown’s Friedman Study Center
  36. My favorite tools: Record and edit audio with Audacity
  37. Wax cylinder recordings
  38. Dropbox: Sync and share files across multiple desktops
  39. Spring rejection season
  40. Technology and hyperbole
  41. R.I.P., Mudd Library
  42. Clips, class, and copyrights
  43. My favorite tools: Download YouTube videos with KeepVid
  44. My favorite tools: Organize ideas with OmniOutliner
  45. Flowgram: put interactive multimedia presentations on the Web