Digital Humanities

A first-person interactive story adventure video game developed and published by The Fullbright Company in 2013 about a young woman who returns after traveling abroad in 1995 to find her entire family gone from their home. Received acclaim from critics.

Star Wars Uncut is a 2010 fan film remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It is a shot-for-shot recreation of the 2004 "Special Edition" re-release of the film made from 473 fifteen-second segments created and submitted from a variety of participants. The full film was made available on the Internet in August 2010 and may be watched for free.

A 2011 interactive web documentary by Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge, collectively known as The Goggles. The website explores the memories of residents from the former mining community of Pine Point, Northwest Territories, as well as how we remember the past.

Milk has focused on using cross-media innovations to enhance emotional human storytelling, exposing the beauty in the things – physical, digital, intangible – that connect us all. The Johnny Cash Project and The Wilderness Downtown with Arcade Fire take the intensely personal, emotive power of music and use breakthrough technologies to create a visual experience that is interconnected to a global consciousness. Milk's "The Wilderness Downtown" was named as one of TIME magazine's 30 Best Music Videos of all time, and was exhibited at MoMA in NY for 6 months in 2011.

IFTTT is a web-based service that allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called "recipes", which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, and Craigslist. IFTTT is an abbreviation of "If This Then That".

Inform is a programming language for creating interactive fiction, using natural language syntax. Using natural language and drawing on ideas from linguistics and from literate programming, Inform is widely used as a medium for literary writing, as a prototyping tool in the games industry, and in education, both at school and university level (where Inform is often assigned material for courses on digital narrative).

Omeka is a free, open source content management system for creating rich narratives or online digital collections that is easy to use. Create online exhibits, projects, and teaching tools and more.

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.

Steller lets you create stories by combining photos, videos and text directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can share it both inside the app, as well as on other social networking sites including Twitter and Facebook. Featured by Apple as one the Best Apps of 2014 and 2019.

A simplified breakdown of Transmedia for students and artists from Professor Henry Jenkins's blog (2007).

Tumblr, stylized in its logo as tumblr, is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. Project examples and documentation are on the Twine wiki.

A free, web-based tool to share articles, videos, images, tweets and other content with one link. Save them for later and create collections, called `wakes`, at any time.

A web framework for building virtual reality experiences. Make WebVR with HTML and Entity-Component. Works on Vive, Rift, desktop, mobile platforms.

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

Agisoft Metashape is a stand-alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data.

With a community of over one million creators, they are the world's largest platform to publish, share, and discover 3D content on web, mobile, AR, and VR.

SketchUp is 3D modeling software that's easy to learn and fun to use--more "sketchy" and less photo-realistic than SketchFab.

Free, open source, cross-platform audio software, Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

Libretime is an open source radio automation and broadcasting solution helping communities get on-air with ease.

This site, full of links, resources, best practices, and recommendations for oral histories in the digital age is a product of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership project and a collaboration among the Michigan State University Museum; Michigan State University Digital Humanities Center, Matrix; the American Folklife Center (AFC/LOC), the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH); the American Folklore Society (AFS); the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries; and the Oral History Association.

A list of suggested further reading, recommended equipment, resources, and communities culled from many such lists that preceded it (including work by Jenna Weiss-Berman, Alex Kapleman, Kaitlin Prest, and Helen Zaltzman).

Make great videos, easily. Turn ordinary photos and video clips into stunning, HD videos with Animoto's online video maker.

Explain Everything is a unique interactive screencasting whiteboard app. Create and share ideas as videos and more with easy-to-use tools and integrations.

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF. Works with Windows and OSX.

Make your own whiteboard video animations with Sparkol VideoScribe – award-winning video scribing app for PC, Mac and iPad. Free trial available.