HoMER strand at NECS Conference: Media Tactics and Engagement, Amsterdam, 2018
Hosted by the University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam , 27-29 June 2018

Three days of presentations by authors of research on movie and other media distribution, from all eras and places. See the abstracts visualized with Prospect.

There is a Media in Transition pre-conference  organized by Utrecht University on 26 June. For more information and registration see: https://necs.org/conference/accompanying-events/pre-conference

HoMER Network AGM

The HoMER General Annual Meeting will take place during NECS conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday 27th from 16.15 until 18.00, at VU Main building, room 15A33.

Please see the agenda here.

Before the meeting, please see the minutes from the last meeting in Toronto, and the updated HoMER constitution.
If you cannot attend but wish to share any comments or suggestions please feel free to contact either Daniela or Clara, or comment on this page. The meeting will be streamed through our HoMER Network Facebook page.

 

Workshop: Curating and Sharing the Data of Media History (with Eric Hoyt)

The HoMER workshop is sponsored by DICIS and will be on Friday 29 June, 3.45PM-7.00PM

In the course of our research, members of HoMER have amassed collections (quite large, in some cases) of documents, images, publications, and other sources that chronicle the global histories of moviegoing. How can we use digital technology to leverage these sources—many of which never even become footnotes—so that they are meaningful, useful, and revealing to a wider community? And what are the considerations of law, ethics, labor, technical expertise, and historiography that we must attend to in the process? This workshop will take up these questions through a blend of presentations, discussions, and hands-on exercises. One common thread will be the multiple meanings of “curation”—ranging from the decisions of inclusion and exclusion, to the computational structuring of data, to the methods for contextualizing objects that users encounter online.

The workshop will be facilitated by Eric Hoyt, who is an associate professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director of the Media History Digital Library. Hoyt will discuss some of the forms of curation that he and his collaborators have employed in digitizing magazines for the Media History Digital Library and, most recently, in reuniting a paper and audio collection for the “Unlocking the Airwaves” digital humanities project. But the workshop’s focus will be on the interests, research, and questions of HoMER members. Please bring at least one primary source that you would be interested in somehow sharing or curating online.

Practicalities:

All HoMER workshops and panels will be in the main building of the VU. Click here for directions.

There will be a HoMER dinner on Thursday 28 June, at 7.00 PM in The Circl, Gustav Mahlerplein 1B, 1082 MK Amsterdam.( a 10-minute walk from the VU). If you have not signed up yet, please contact Daniela (dtreveri-gennari@brookes.ac.uk) or Clara (c.pafort-overduin@uu.nl).