Talk at University of Kent, Templeman Library, 28 January 2014

1. Social Media in
Libraries and Teaching
…or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love
Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and their ilk.
Dr James Baker
Curator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/

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3. “The emergence of the new
digital humanities [and
social sciences] isn‟t an
isolated academic
phenomenon. The
institutional and disciplinary
changes are part of a larger
cultural shift, inside and
outside the academy, a
rapid cycle of emergence
and convergence in
technology and culture”
Steven E Jones, Emergence of
the Digital Humanities (2013)
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5. “Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their
analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and
human capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less
make sense of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of
computational linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are
working toward a large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were
valued and transmitted during this period”
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, „Infectious
Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers‟ (2013)
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf
…or Adam Crymble
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27. Thank you!
Dr James Baker
@j_w_baker
james.baker@bl.uk
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