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Digital Humanities

Announcing My Blog, Songs of the Victorians, and Augmented Notes

February 26, 2013 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research, Research and Development

I’ve been having an excellent and productive time as a Scholars’ Lab Fellow: thanks to the amazing advice and support I’ve received from the Scholars’ Lab staff, I’ve been making good progress on my two digital projects, Songs of the Victorians and Augmented Notes. For those of you who don’t know about them, I’ll give…. More.

Gendering Praxis

January 29, 2013 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research

As we embark on the next semester of the Praxis Program we have begun to think about our “roles” in the Prism project.  This has led to a surprising rush of gender feelings.  Parts of these feelings feel too second-wave feministy to be appropriate in this day and age, but regardless I find myself frustrated…. More.

Meg Stewart to talk about the Fulbright Scholar program, Thursday, Jan 17

January 15, 2013 · Announcements, Digital Humanities, Geospatial and Temporal

A Fulbright Scholar Talks About Participatory GIS, the Caribbean, Google Earth and How a Fulbright Could Be in Your Future Thursday, January 17 2:00 – 3:00pm Alderman Library, Room 421 Meg Stewart Academic Technology Consultant and Fulbright Ambassador A Fulbright Scholar in 2009-10 to the University of the West Indies in Barbados, Meg Stewart will…. More.

Make it Work!

December 4, 2012 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research

Tomorrow, in an ongoing effort to teach us how to use Ruby, we are embarking on the adventure that is “Pair Programming.”  We are going to create a “Jotto” game, courtesy of Eric by breaking it into discrete classes and having each pair work on a different class.  The goal is to have one person…. More.

Prism Project Proposal

October 22, 2012 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research

Full disclosure: this list of questions came from a prompt by David McClure. This also grows out of a blog post I wrote earlier about my interest in utilizing images in Prism. What’s the overarching intellectual goal? Analyze what visual cues in photographs trigger regional distinctions for their viewers.  Using photographs from the 1950s-1960s I am…. More.

A Project for Prism

October 19, 2012 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research

In the last meeting we played the transparency game: Everyone highlights a transparency on top of a text according to a set of categories. At the end of the exercise, all the transparencies are stacked together. What does this show? In theory, a number of interesting results emerge.  The game could show where there is…. More.

The Whiteboard

October 17, 2012 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research

This is what the whiteboard in the grad lounge looks like this week. We’ve been dreaming pretty big. Here are a few of the questions that we’ve been mulling over: 1. What will Prism look like? What sort of interface would allow users to upload their own materials and browse other ongoing (or completed) projects?…. More.

Fun with Prism

October 2, 2012 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research

Prism could be a tool that we use for scholarly entertainment (like Old Weather). It could also be an extremely powerful tool for research–provided that we make the controls fluid enough. Earlier this week, Claire and I dreamed up a rather elaborate interface that would showcase Prism’s playful qualities, in order to generate “subjects” interested in participating in…. More.

Praxis 2.0

September 13, 2012 · Digital Humanities, Grad Student Research

The 2012-2013 Praxis team has assembled! We’ve moved into our lounge (who knew Alderman Library could be so comfortable?) and started to think about chartering this year’s team project. More on the charter and the project in the weeks to come… Although we’ve just met, if I had to describe my fellows in a single…. More.

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