Note: for this assignment you will need to explore Twitter hashtags and profiles. Having a twitter account is not required, but it might make things easier.

Write a blog post documenting at least 3 accounts to follow on Twitter for those interested in pursuing DH and track one dh-related conversation that has happened in the past week(s). There is one main rule for this blog: you cannot use a Twitter account one of your peers has already written about! Pay attention to each other’s work, or be among the first to publish! Here are some tips for finding accounts:

1. Look at follower’s lists. Professor Silva (@andiesilva) follows a number of DH-related accounts. And of course, the first account you find will have other suggestions on their “following” list.
2. Google “digital humanities + twitter.” You will get a number of useful results!
3. Look up handles that use @dh as part of their name
4. To find a DH-related conversation, try the hashtag #dh or #digped (digital pedagogy). You may also google search “digital humanities” and “storify” or see what the accounts you have written up (or that your peers write about) are tweeting about.

Rules:

a) Your original write-up of at least 3 accounts should include:

• 3-4 sentence summary (what is this account? who or what does it represent? who might be interested in it?)
• One sample tweet (you can copy+paste the text from the tweet, take a screenshot, or use the “copy link to tweet” shortcut from Twitter)

See examples here, here, and here.

b) Your summary of a conversation should include:

• topic: what was this conversation about?
• community: whom did the conversation involve? People? Institutions? A whole conference?
• relevance: why does this issue seem important, in your opinion?
• link to at least one tweet

Post your blogs by midnight on Saturday, March 25. Comments on peers’ work are due by 5pm Monday, March 27.