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Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium

The 2015 Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium will be held on campus February 28. Learn about digital humanities tools and research methods from Illinois faculty and experts, and join us in building a research community for digital humanities practitioners at Illinois. Registration is free.   

GSLIS Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will deliver a research presentation at the symposium titled, “Bringing Computational Social Science to the Real World: Impact Assessment of Issue-Focused Public Media.”

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