Confessions of a Media Arts Scholar in an Urban Data Landscape

Dr. Jeneen Naji Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University   Collaborations are at the core of humanities-led research, and as such as a digital poet practitioner/researcher I threw myself willingly into a collaboration with Geographers to apply for and work on Building City Dashboards a Science Foundation Ireland €1.8 million funded research project. The increasing urbanisation and digitisation of the human experience has resulted in a) lots of cities b) lots of data about cities.

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Conference Attendance: Other Codes

The first Galway Digital Cultures Initiative conference at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 11 – 12 May 2017. Attended by Dr Jeneen Naji and Dr Gareth W. Young. The Other Codes: Digital Literatures in Context conference was a two-day event that took place in Galway on the 11-12 May 2017. It was the first ever Digital Cultures Initiative conference and was hosted by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway. The conference was funded through the Irish Research Council and the European Commission via the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant. The keynotes were delivered by: Sandy

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