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Final Project Reflections
Fiona, Abby, Amir, Raul and myself are working on a digital activisim project with an emphasis on social justice this term. We have all decided to collaborate on a project that diesects the content, timing, and addressee of Dartmouth Commencement speakers from the past ten years. The end goal will be to analzye the speeches,…
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Reflections on Group Project
Our project is to provide computational analysis of ‘Black Twitter’ to expose relationships, connections and digital social circles within the online community. There is an inherent issue of processing and understanding the vast scale of the information and data that needs to processed, and we believe computation is the best way to get around those…
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HASTAC 2017 Call for Panelists | Building a Feminist Future: On (Digital) Pedagogical Praxis
HASTAC 2017: The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities University of Central Florida, Orlando, November 2-4 Building a Feminist Future: On (Digital) Pedagogical Praxis This panel explores how digital feminist pedagogical praxis can help materialize a more just, equitable, and pleasurable future. Moving between theory and practice, but always with an eye towards the better world-making…
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Google Search engine vs Dartmouth Library Search
If you search any word or phrases, Google comes up with a lot information about that. The number of results is relevant to the topic. But in general, the number of googled key words are very high. Google has a very advanced mechanism, robots, that access to millions of websites. Also, google has another mechanism which…
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Topic Modeling
When reading Ted Underwood’s “Where to start with text mining,” I was longing for a definition of text mining at the beginning. It felt like Underwood dove into the topic without giving even a brief summary of it. Underwood highlights that a large collection of texts is usually necessary in order for the analysis to have…
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09. Collaborative Creation: Annotated Bibliography
Collaborative Pedagogy: The Annotated Bibliography In 2014, a group of HASTAC scholars collaboratively created The Pedagogy Project, a series of blog posts, which offer examples of digital or collaborative projects that instructors can implement into their courses. These projects vary in length and complexity, so instructors can browse by category to find ideas for single…
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Announcing Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices
Written by The Graduate Center Learning Collective www.hastac.org/structuring-equality Arinn Amer, Zebulah Baldwin, Joshua Belknap, Erica Campbell, Cathy N. Davidson, Michael Druffel, Iris Finkel, Lisa Hirschfield, Nicky Hutchins, Kelly Lerash, Danica Savonick Edited by Hilarie Ashton. CUNY Undergraduate Student Editors: Sujoy Bhowmik, David Brandt, Cherishe Cumma, Cassandra Castelant, Yelena Dzhanova, Brenell Harrison, Hurriya Hassan Cover: Estefany…
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Musings on the News and on Work II (plus Memory and Energy)
Last time I wrote here was before the inauguration (small I), and I don’t have to say whose. And I won’t. I am one who believes that saying the name of a person means that you are remembering and honoring them, and so I won’t say his name. It’s harder to remember not to write…
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History Detective
I cannot count how many times I have told people I study history and they have replied “I wasn’t good at history, I am terrible at remembering dates.” Sometimes I laugh this answer off, depending on how engaged I feel like getting in a conversation. And sometimes this reply leads to robust discussions about history…
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16. Revisiting the Pedagogy Project and Re-imagining Revision
“Re-imagining Revision: The Digital Essay” In 2014, a group of HASTAC scholars collaboratively created The Pedagogy Project, a series of blog posts, which offer examples of digital or collaborative projects that instructors can implement into their courses. These projects vary in length and complexity, so instructors can browse by category to find ideas for single…