Currently, I’m focused on preparing everything for our presentation on Wednesday. This past week, I built out a Google Slides template that incorporates our visual identity—it uses our color scheme, typ […]
Welp, next Wednesday is it. We’re getting excited to present our work to a larger audience, but we still have some last-minute items to address.
Presentation. This week’s in-class rehearsal went slightly bet […]
With just over one week until our presentation, we’ve had to prioritize our work and trim our wishlist to have the best possible product. See below for a rundown of where everything stands.
Development. We f […]
Approaching 17 May, we remain in a relatively good position, though we have a fair amount of work to complete in disparate areas. See below for more details on each of these.
Presentation. While we’ll use W […]
Thanks, Lisa. In addition to class time, we’re also planning to hold weekly check-in meetings. I plan to send weekly digest emails too (I’ve used these at the work—basically they break down what we’ve done this w […]
My revised proposal is now available on GitHub.
During revision, it became clear that practicing digital humanities both requires iteration and underscores how more traditional humanistic practices (e.g. […]
During our last class together, students spoke of their grant proposals, extensions of their data projects, and the digital archives or editions they planned to build. My final project, however, takes a more […]
I love the connection between flesh and data, Achim. Unfortunately, I don’t know Latour very well. Are you using him to say that we reify data, or that data have materiality and we erase it? Maybe something else […]
Interesting take, Claire. I definitely agree that we need to move away from “the vapid embrace of the digital”—the “digital” alone won’t change the infrastructures of the academy or the place of the humanities w […]
Good summary of the workshop, Claire. Like you, I left with more questions than answers, but those questions pushed me to reconsider, refine, and strengthen some of the many vague ideas I had.
Quick GitHub suggestion: in README.md, don’t start each paragraph with the pound/hash sign (#). GitHub, and markdown, use # as the equivalent of in HTML. To render text as a paragraph, just insert a line break […]
“The Internet hates walled gardens,” Kathleen Fitzpatrick writes in the “Texts” chapter of Planned Obsolescence, and this reality highlights some of the failures of digital publishing to acknowledge and facilit […]
Interesting. I do think there’s a real divide between historians and journalists (and academics and journalists in general). In The Awl recently, a two-part conversation between an academic, Jo Livingstone, and an […]
