Data Mining & Distant Reading: Valuable Tools, but Merely Tools
This week’s readings (scroll to Week 10) concerned using digital technology to “read” texts in different ways. I use the term “read” in quotation marks to draw attention to it, as this is not what many of us colloquially call reading–that is, what you are doing now, going over my post with your eyes. That [...]
Scholarship in the digital realm
This week’s readings concerned the question of scholarship in the digital realm. Specifically, what is digital scholarship, and how is it evaluated? As the semester has gone on, we’ve learned how the digital makes a difference in format. As Lev Manovich discussed in last week’s reading, The Language of New Media, the rectangular computer screen [...]
Final grant proposal
Can be found here.
Week 8: Theory of New Media
John and I are this week’s discussion leaders. We’ve been emailing thoughts back and forth, and decided that each of us are posting our own thoughts/questions for the discussion on our respective blogs, and further commenting. So here are my thoughts: We envision the discussion going along two interconnected strands: considering Manovich’s work on its [...]
Reflections on the proposal for “Familiar Strangers”
In this post, I am answering several questions about my proposal for “Familiar Strangers,” a website about U.S. and Mexican visitors to each others’ countries between 1776 and 1846. Thanks to my lovely wife Laura, Sharon (the professor), Andrea, and my other classmates for their feedback on the proposal draft [PDF] and the presentation. What [...]
Presentation: “Familiar Strangers”
Here is my presentation for class on October 11.
Week 6: Digital Collections and Digital Preservation
This week’s readings focused on efforts to preserve and collect the past online, and assessments of those efforts. As the readings make clear, digitization of primary sources–and creation of new ones in the digital medium–has been one of the main ways that digital technology has affected history research. As Alison Babeu’s Rome Wasn’t Digitized in [...]
Draft: Project #1
See the attachment. Fellow students and Sharon: I’ve left the criteria in for now–hence why the narrative extends beyond six pages. I plan to remove for the final. Will look forward to your comments! NEH-ODH grant draft