Jason Boyd
@jasonaboyd
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Toronto Metropolitan University Assoc Prof, English & Director, Literatures of Modernity MA; Director, @CDHTMU. Find me on 🦋
Toronto, ON
Joined February 2010
My latest article: "The Playing’s the Thing: A Ludic Approach to Diversifying Digital Shakespeare"
digitalstudies.org
An examination of the potential for diversifying digital Shakespeare scholarship through a ludic approach. After arguing for game-making as a scholarly activity, a survey of the history of Shakespe...
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Today! Dr. Patrick R. Dolan will be presenting his research, “Retro Resonance: The Hauntological Power of Post-Retro Aesthetics in Video Games”! A virtual event at Noon EST. For more information & to register: https://t.co/VjfhNu8qZm
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Tomorrow! Dr. Patrick R. Dolan will be presenting his research, “Retro Resonance: The Hauntological Power of Post-Retro Aesthetics in Video Games”! A virtual event at Noon EST. For more information & to register: https://t.co/hlRCq3w2Qd
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So excited to see our project go live today! If you love reading come join!
📚 As part of the Citizen Readers for citizen science initiative, we're excited to announce the launch of our latest project: Reading Emotions! Come help us understand the emotions of literary characters! https://t.co/jlxDQcju9E
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Tomorrow at Noon! A Roundtable on “The Walking Simulator from Myst to Gone Home”
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Centre for Digital Humanities September 2024 Events -
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Dr. Pamela Sugiman has been removed as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, @lcoussee_, Jasmine Makar and Jerry Zhang report: https://t.co/NxLgkBrXtq
theeyeopener.com
Pamela Sugiman was removed as the Dean of Arts from TMU’s administration
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CDH members are making a strong showing at the @eliterature 2024 conference #elo2024! Today, the Unarchived Podcast team will convene a panel, “Podcasting Peregrinations: Book of Travels, Unarchived,” talking about their most recent episode:
storiesinplay.com
A Playable Stories Archive Podcast The Playable Stories Archive ( is a resource for teachers who are interested in learning about story-rich, critical, reflective, and persuasive digital games that…
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Wow! Congrats @edmondchang!!
Aiiiyeee, it's scarier seeing it in print... but looking forward to the year, overlapping with @aarontram will be a blast and a blessing... AGS has always been a collaborative venture... that's never going to change!
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Thank you to all our organizers, presenters, and other participants for making this year's conference in Montréal such a success! Your enthusiasm, dedication, and brilliant work are what make this society so wonderful!
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And the closing plenary of @csdhschn 2024 conference begins, with Lai-Tze Fan, @SSHRC_CRSH Canada Research chair at @UWaterloo, taking the floor to discuss "How does Access to AI impact Human Creativity and Humanistic Research?"
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Extremely proud to see my student @pirparham receive the Ian Lancashire Award at this year’s @csdhschn conference! He did a truly great presentation of his doctoral work as attested by this award. Parham is a @FRQSC bursary holder and student member of @crihunum at @FASNouvelles
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One of the perks of live conference (@csdhschn) is seeing colleagues you spend time on zoom once a month all year around. Here am I, smiling with my @centernetDH executive colleagues @jasonaboyd (secretary) and @MelanieConroy1 (treasurer), only missing my co-chair Kristen Mapes
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A pleasure to chair the session “On the Relevance of Digital Humanities Centers and Laboratories” at the @csdhschn meeting, with @jasonaboyd taking the floor first to discuss his center at @TorontoMet after my opening remarks on our own @FRQSC funded center @crihunum
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Had a great time co-leading “Queer(ing) DH” at #DHSI2024 with @edmondchang! Our students make this amazing ‘Gay Trading’ card game in the process of exploring and pushing back against the heteronormativity of generative AI technologies!
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Two weeks away! The IDARESU workshop on “Game Making for Scholarship and Storytelling” from 10-14 June! More details here: https://t.co/qAHg1GMlSO
#gamemaking #DH
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Allotment season has begun! Of course, the two least useful herbs—lovage (top right) & wormwood (top left) are already gigantic!🙄
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#DH job! Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Programs, Culture and Technology Studies (2-year Contractually Limited) at the University of Guelph in Culture and Technology Studies (xlisted with English) https://t.co/TqGsP2cIf4 Amazing workplace!
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