he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Ryan Cordell
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Permanent, full-time Lectureship in Digital Culture and Society at UCL. Closing date 28 June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
But he also develops a theoretical framework of “layered incompleteness” showing how these directories—& the commercial aims of the businesses—shaped both the data we have about historical newspapers & the literal physical collections held in our libraries—the bibliographical work here is wonderful
Congratulate @djevans.bsky.social on defending his brilliant dissertation, “The Layered Incompleteness of Historical Data: Newspaper Directories and the Construction of the Bibliographic Record, 1869–1925”—one of the best examples I’ve read marrying rich historical & advanced computational research
Jane Winters
And that’s how I found out it is now WEBSITE OFFICIAL:
Ryan Cordell
Ryan Cordell
It just keeps getting better!
Dan created a computational pipeline to extract newspaper metadata from Rowells’ & Ayers’ annual newspaper directories—including fields like circulation, genre, & language—creating a rich, longitudinal dataset that will help scholars analyse newspapers’ evolution over the 19th & early 20th centuries
It is difficult having teenagers when you’re a middle aged dude whose doctor says needs to cut back on red meat
It’s not hard to convince me I want a hamburger & they’re basically little devils always on my shoulders whispering about hamburgers
I’m not even talking about fast food. We can make much better burgers (& barbecue, & steaks, etc.) ourselves. As soon as the weather warms up the grill beckons & these kids are “you know what I’m craving??” & now I have to be like “get behind me Satan!”
I was doing just fine on my bike ride until the very white, very middle aged, very British Peloton instructor pointed to his chest and said “you’ve got a lot of gangsta…right here” & I started laughing so hard I lost my pace & never recovered it
