The conference got some regional (state) TV attention yesterday. Västerbottensnytt did a feature on the student project presentation (in the lab and in the virtual world) and on the conference as such. The streamed version is available here (click on Måndag 22:15, in Swedish). It gives you a good sense of the student project and I am glad the students are in focus (and that they are given interview time). That is actually one of the issues we discussed yesterday – the crucial role of students in developing the humanities and information technology as an area. Jeffrey Schnapp pointed out that in the humanities students typically get to do original research at a relatively late stage.
The digital humanities