One constant exists with humanity is wherever people have extended their domains, they have built structures. From the early humans leaving wood structures, to Egyptian pyramids, to the palace at Versailles, to the Tokyo Tower, and to Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, humans have erected structures as a mark of civilization at a particular moment. While each of these structures conveys information about the society that constructed them, only the most recent have living representatives to testify to the thoughts of the community when they were erected.

Privacy is a social construct and is networked (Hargittai & Marwick, 2016). With mobile applications, it is increasingly difficult to assess privacy risks because data is collected from one device to another (OPC, 2016). Mobile social networking applications like Instagram have caused privacy breaches. For example, in 2012 a terms of service was added to the application that allows advertisers to use photos and sell them without users' consent.

Perhaps one of the biggest strengths of as well as challenges in the digital humanities is its interdisciplinary nature. The numerous sub-fields which have risen from the larger umbrella of DH have flourished due to this lack of constraints.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is a foundational aspect in roleplaying games. Lovecraft's writing is a formative part of the fantasy and horror genres, widely referenced in literature and pop culture. His stories depict existential fears, extra-dimensional terrors, and madness. Tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs) are collaborative storytelling games typically played by teens and adults.

This talk explains how the push for innovation in the wearables market introduces several sociotechnical problems, including greater uncertainty about future efficiency trade-offs and the need to uncover and track them.

With its emergence in the 20th century, electronic music and its technologies presented a set of radically new features different from the tradition of acoustic music. Digital technologies such as MIDI, digital synthesizers, algorithmic music, generative music, etc. are now an essential part of a modern musician's toolkit.

For this panel discussion we will discuss two e-poetry projects that piece together moments of pattern and randomness to create new digital poetic works. In addition to presenting these projects for discussion, we hope to engage the audience in an embodied understanding of how 57 pattern and randomness operate in projects such as these.

In a recent panel discussion Edwanna Andrews, Director of University of Central Florida's Center for Social Justice and Advocacy, spoke of the continued feeling of 'otherness' felt by the minority students with whom she works.

As our society shifts its archival media from print to digital, an unintended consequence results; we lose a great amount of data. The effects of data loss can be profound; without access to vital data, our access to history may be severely diminished. Data loss threatens to undermine individual lives and major institutions.

The New Context for DH: Today, digital media allow us to engage in global-level interactions with almost the same speed and ease as speaking with individuals face to face. For the digital humanities (DH), this situation brings with it new possibilities for collaborating internationally on projects to offer a more holistic approach to examining what the humanities are, how works are interpreted, and how ideas are exchanged.

Deriving from the Latin curare, meaning "to care," according to Merriam Webster (2016), a curator is the "person who is in charge of the things in a museum." While the job of curator is indeed one that requires formal training and preparation, the word has been liberated from its contextual home within the museum and has become mainstreamed and democratized, now referring to the control and care that we have over our arts, media, and culture in the 21st century. This is largely due to technological evolution along with the proliferation of media choices and new media creation opportunities.

Digital media is arguably the most underused arrow in the pedagogical quiver, since, if approached creatively, it has the potential of slaying the twin giants of student disinterest and disengagement. This roundtable presentation will focus on the fact that much more can be done to enhance student learning, given the technology readily available to academic institutions.

Welcome to Nikki's Place is a situated mobile story that uses the ARIS platform. It has two components: the game, "Getting a Job at Nikki's Place" and a digital story, "Welcome to Nikki's Place."

If These Walls Could Speak provides an alternative memory storage system using tangible objects and audio tracks versus the written words. Using river rocks as a memory token, a user can listen to past audio memories stored in the stones and record their own new ones.

KENDRA (Kinetically Engineered Networked Digitally Reactive Arthropod), the Digital Puppetry Crab is an animated character controlled by an iPad touch screen interface, allowing live interaction, improvisation, and the ability to rehearse and devise scenes, all things that the animation process doesn't usually allow. She is a modern update on Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, a character controlled live in real time, somewhat like a digital marionette, who can respond to, or mischievously disobey, commands and audience suggestions.

We would like to propose a media arts presentation on a proof-of-concept educational game built as a partnership between Carleton College undergraduate students and the Old State House museum in Boston. "Witness to the Revolution" is an immersive, interactive 3d experience of the 1770 Boston Massacre.

With our lives being more interconnected than ever due to technology, persisting language barriers still hinder valuable opportunities of cross-culture collaboration. The idea of using technology to teach a second language is not a novel one, but with the continued rise of virtual reality (VR) technologies, our team felt that there was a great opportunity to utilize the unique components that VR has to offer for Second Language Acquisition (SLA) purposes.

The readies.org project and the collaborations with the AGAST AR-project seek to examine interface and modality as aspects of database digital humanities research. The simulation of the reading machine and online publication of the anthology at www.readies.org allows readers to experience the Readies as Brown intended one to read them. It also allows readers to make their own judgments about individual readies and the anthology project as a whole.

On June 12, 2016, a hate crime took place during Latin Night at a queer club in Orlando, Florida. The violent attack at Pulse nightclub left 49 people dead and 53 injured from gunfire. Almost immediately, social media posts began to proliferate that incorporated hashtags like #OrlandoStrong, #OrlandoUnited, and #OnePulse. Why do many of us reach toward our screens when tragedy strikes?

Increased investment in ambitious digital games for learning, along with the development of accompanying online reporting systems means that teachers now have access to near real-time student performance data. These online reporting systems, or, data dashboards, provide teachers with formative assessment data they can use to inform their day-to-day instruction and ultimately bridge what students learn through gameplay to other contexts.

Robert Cassanello, VP of Research and Publications with H-Net and Yelena Kalinsky Associate Director and Managing Editor, Reviews at H-Net launched a network based Peer Review initiative in 2016-2017. Individual networks at H-Net have launched original scholarly projects on H-Net.

I Am UCF is a cross-disciplinary effort to create digital stories representing the diverse narratives of the University of Central Florida's (UCF) campus body. As a digital narrative initiative it works to create a digital archive of personal digital stories created by UCF students that reflect the diversity on UCF's campus.

As a digital humanities scholar and instructor, I have always struggled with knowing what, if any, rules I should make in my classroom about electronics usage such as cell phones, tablets, etc. A computer-mediated writing class I took in my doctoral studies with digital humanities scholar, Dr. Kristine Blair, led me to reevaluate the policies I have in my syllabi and enact in my courses when it comes to student usage of electronics.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. All year, but peaking in October, individuals, organizations, and corporations appropriate the pink ribbon symbol to engage with the breast cancer cause. The symbol has become increasingly ubiquitous, and the general consensus it that it represents awareness. However, awareness is a generic term representing a myriad of socially constructed concepts, most notably health and fundraising.

The practices in the media and cultural and creative industries (CCIs) suggest that an integrative trend in the totality of media network, including integrations in the modes of information production, communication channels and terminals, and the appearance of prosumers, is revolutionizing information environment and the way of being. This is particular true when considering the full-fledged prevalence of mobile videos in the media networks thanks to the development and application of 4G and 5G broadband technologies.

Learning a new language is difficult and time-consuming. This panel discussion will consist of descriptions of the unique research interests and perspectives from each member of the five person interdisciplinary team working to design a second-language acquisition (SLA) videogame, ELLE: The EndLess LEarner.

This talk and game demonstration introduces a long-term project called the "Procedural Sonnet." This project, located at the intersection of electronic literature, digital storytelling, gaming, and poetics seeks to connect premodern literary forms with contemporary digital platforms.

Currently, 1 in 2 people around the world has some form of internet access, 2.1 billion of whom gain access via smartphone. In a concurrent trend, nearly 1 in 3 people are engaged in some form of English learning, with over 80% of these students residing in the global south. (IDC, 2016) (IALC, 2016) These two figures point to a very new vision of the English as a Second Language (ESL) student, far divorced from outmoded third world tropes toward a more globally connected and tech savvy language learner.

This poster will spark conversations about the emerging Uncle Sam Plantation Project, that is part of the Grinnell College Immersive Experiences Lab (GCIEL). The GCIEL is an interdisciplinary community of inquiry exploring new ways to approach the liberal arts and make them more widely accessible through immersive 3D, VR, and MR experiences.

Open, online learning has been embraced by some educators as a way to broaden the networked scope of learning and foster connections to real world contexts and communities. Openly-networked learning introduces a different paradigm of student engagement, shifting from a traditional mode of participation in which the student primarily engages dialogically with the instructor regarding assignments and feedback, to one in which students exchange information, resources, and feedback with each other and the communities in which the course connects the students.

Digital cultural history can mean different things to different audiences; a community history website, an online museum, or an institutional photo repository all have digital cultural contexts. Our project concerns interpreting data from one such heritage database, Chronicling America, to understand the role newspapers—the social media of the era—played in disseminating hegemonic ideologies within American agricultural communities.

Archival databates are static repositories for housing data. While useful to researchers, they require users to download images, documents and oral histories in order to analyze the data and develop a narrative. The Regional Initiative for Collecting Histories, Experiences, and Stories (RICHES) has developed digital tools to enable users to organize and analyze the data and begin the process of creating an interpretative framework onsite.

My course at George Washington University is called Digital History, and it introduces undergraduate students to new technologies and practices that professionals inside and outside of academia use to preserve, provide access to, analyze, and exhibit primary sources for history.

This project will examine the power of creativity by challenging students and faculty to raise their voices and talents, while taking a stand for social justice and equality. Our objective is to enlighten our collegiate community, through a digital platform (blog), as we engage students and faculty throughout the tri-state area.

This proposed performative event (a filmed performance of Schrifttanz zwei/Chinese Ballad) combines archival research, dance choreography, music composition, animation creation, and video production with the goal to highlight the place of the Arts in the archive and digital world. Four researchers across three time zones and 3000 miles, have collaborated using social media and the negotiation of four personal processes in order to reconstruct/re-imagine a dance score created in 1927 (see image) by Irmgard Bartenieff, founder of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and a rare text by Rudolf Laban published in 1926: Choreographie.

Digital storytelling is an outgrowth of the field of new media studies, a humanistic discipline that explores the nexus of computing, science and visual culture. Digital storytelling began as a workshop-based approach utilizing digital media to create short audio-visual stories, frequently oriented towards the autobiographical and confessional, but has subsequently expanded in its application to include fields such as public history.

In many ways, learning to program can be challenging for humanists although computer programming is an essential skill for digital humanities. According to published studies this is often attributed to poor self-efficacy, limited prior experience with computers, or inability to relate personal experiences to abstract programming concepts.

Playground City believes learning is everywhere, all the time. We also believe learning can be fun, yet today's youth have become disillusioned with the traditional classroom model, which "teaches to the test." While technology and data are innovating at staggering rates, our education system is not providing a solid foundation for our youth to succeed in this information/digital age.