Signs@40 documents and analyzes 40 years of feminist scholarship. There are many interesting subsections to this open-access DH project, such as an exhibit of Signs‘ past cover designs, a cocitation network analysis, and many more, but I will focus on… Continue Reading
Data visualisation has always been a topic of great interest to me, primarily because it enables individuals to see analytics presented visually so that they can grasp concepts which might otherwise be difficult to comprehend. Having a difficult concept drawn… Continue Reading
Well . . . I think that there are many advantages for digital humanists to be able to code, however I do not believe that it is absolutely crucial to one’s success in this field. I do believe that several… Continue Reading
The Viral Texts Project presents data, visualizations, and interactive exhibits that serve to help scholars better understand how particular news stories, short fiction, and poetry “go viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines. The overall goal of this digital project is… Continue Reading
“Many of us in the humanities think our colleagues across the campus in the computer-science department spend most of their time debugging software. This is no more true than the notion that English professors spend most of their time correcting… Continue Reading
The key is to create the contexts that allow failing to be seen as something other than defeat. In the entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley, for example, failure is not only tolerated, it is massively funded—because the risks are worth… Continue Reading
Making is not a rebel movement, scrappy individuals going up against the system. While the shift might be from the corporate to the individual (supported, mind, by a different set of companies selling a different set of things), it mostly… Continue Reading
“The advent of Digital Humanities implies a reinterpretation of the humanities as a generative enterprise: one in which students and faculty alike are making things as they study and perform research, generating not just texts (in the form of analysis,… Continue Reading
A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Maker culture, with its goal to get everyone access to the… Continue Reading
Byron Jia SketchUp was hard for me to use at first. The amount of tools and buttons were overwhelming. I didn’t know what each little icon meant or what they did, so I was pretty lost. One element that particularly… Continue Reading
