The advent of the internet, and especially of its more socially connected Web 2.0 variant, has ushered in a golden age for the concept of the network. The interconnected world we now live in has changed not only the way we study computers and the internet, but the very way
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Spatial Humanities: GIS/Mapping 101
For the next two weeks we will be exploring the spatial humanities — a vibrant and increasingly popular area of digital humanities research. Humanities scholarship is currently undergoing a “spatial turn” akin to the quantitative, linguistic and cultural “turns” of previous decades, and many are arguing that the widespread adoption of Geographic Information Systems
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