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Jason Boyd

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Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Apr 29

Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century | Scottish Universities Press

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · Jul 13

As announced at #elo25, work toward the Electronic Literature Collection 5 (to be published in 2027) has begun and a call for submissions will soon be released.

We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.

Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org

Call for volunteer consultants to help with translating the upcoming call-for-submissions and spreading call to different communities.

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · Jul 11

If you missed my #elo25 talk earlier today, More History for the "Little Engine": Preserving the History and Works of Bitsy, here are my slides.

Summary: Bitsy will be 10 next year; I've been working on documenting its journey.

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · Jul 12

While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 12

@msterslev.bsky.social showing the BERTIFIER transformation of Tristan Tzara’s “How to write a Dada poem” #elo25:

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 12

If you see @samplereality.bsky.social at #elo25, ask him for a bookmark for his latest project “No Time For Discourse” notime.now

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

Jose Dias’s exploration of the expressiveness of the hyperlink in Twine is accompanied by real-time illustration! #elo25

Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

@videlais.bsky.social is giving a fascinating talk about the j history of Bitsy and the works created using it. Dan has great videos about how to use Bitsy on YouTube! #elo25

Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

@scottrettberg.bsky.social is giving us an entertaining account of his early experiences with eLit, including coauthorship of the hypertext The Unknown #elo25

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jul 11

I’m at ELO@25 Love Letters to the Past and Future conference at York University, with @caitlinfisher.bsky.social & @laitze.bsky.social opening the event! #elo25

Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Apr 29

Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century | Scottish Universities Press

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Mar 6

Yes! Emma Vossen is @emmavphd.bsky.social 🙂

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Mar 5

Trying again: punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Mar 4

Hosted by the @thegamesinstitute.bsky.social !

Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’ll be virtually presenting my paper “Adjusting the Virtual Dial: Video Game Adoptions and Adaptations of the Radio” today at session 14: Meaning through Mechanics (2pm EST) at the International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025 @uwaterloo.ca #icgan2025

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Mar 4

I don’t think so, but Emma’s keynote is drawn from her essay in Historiographies of Game Studies, forthcoming this year from Punctum Books in open access! punctumbooks.t/titles/histo...

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Mar 3

I’m attending (virtually) Emma Vossen’s keynote at the International Conference on Games & Narrative (ICGAN), “Narratology vs Ludology: The Debate that has Haunted Game Studies for Two Decades and Counting”. Emma is co-editor of the forthcoming Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum Books)!

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Feb 10

Looking forward to chatting tomorrow with @paulbarrett1.bsky.social and Sarah Roger about their collection Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities at @torontomet.bsky.social’s Centre for Digital Humanities! Details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

Programs at the CDH |

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jan 20

I’m attending the Toronto launch of Output: Computer-Generated Text, 1963-2023 edited by Nick Montfort & Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by @mitpress.bsky.social

Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Jan 13

Tomorrow (January 14), the Centre for Digital Humanities will resume its programming with Reading Bytes, where we’ll continue our discussion of Alan Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI. Check out & join us for the other great events happening this month! cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Dec 18

Hooray!!!

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Dec 9

Asst Prof in Digital Humanities & Literature, Rowan U: jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...

Rowan HR - Details - Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and Literature - Department of EnglishJob Postings | Human Resources | Rowan University

Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.

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Jason Boyd @jasonaboyd.bsky.social · Dec 2

It’s #DayofDH 2024, sponsored by dhcenternet.org! The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan U is hosting “Diary of a Digital Humanist,” led by Reg Beatty! More details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Nov 28

This!! Re:UVA DH+environmental hum prof/DHC Faculty Director ad. *Please, please* do apply if you do DH but aren't familiar w/environmental humanities as a term/field. Think expansive view of social justice that has/could add any tie into place or place-based human experience, planet and/or climate+

Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Nov 28

Also would encourage DH folks to view the environmental humanities component expansively. It does have to fit, but trying to push for an expansive view towards archives, critique of AI impact, minimal computing, preservation and sustainability, etc.

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Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social · Nov 28

I made a starter pack for digital humanities people, projects, and centres based in Canada
go.bsky.app/ScSDoUB

reply to be added!

Canadian Digital Humanities

Join the conversation

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · Nov 9

_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!!

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb...

@laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Where do the digital humanities stand in 2023? *Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023* presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environm...

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