The following event summaries, written by students and faculty in digital humanities courses at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, provide only a glimpse into the 25 workshops offered throughout NYCDH Week 2016, yet even these testify to collaboration, experimentation, and connectedness in the field. Read more… NYCDH Week 2016: Workshops in Review
November 28, 2016
Beata Jones & Daxton Stewart
Structuring a course and a major assignment around a conference, and capturing all of the learning experiences in an ePortfolio, led to positive learning outcomes for students. Read more… Design for Transformational Learning with an ePortfolio
This essay tracks gendered behaviors on academic Twitter during the Modern Language Association conference in January 2016. Drawing on Lauren Klein’s theory of carework and the Bechdel test for gender equality in filmmaking, I compare the way male and female social media users respond to presentations in the Twitter feed associated with three particular panels. Using Storifies from these panels, I classify tweets according to the gender identities of those mentioned in the tweet and those creating the tweets, as well as by the rhetorical function of each tweet. The resulting spreadsheet, figures, and tables are an example of “small data” at work as I hypothesize significant trends in the way women perform carework during conferences through their social media usage.
Shawna Ross has created a robust series of html pages to present her analysis of Twitter replies at the 2016 Modern Language Association Conference. Her presentation provides an example of the kind of scholarship we hope to see more of at JITP, i.e. scholarship that leverages the affordances of technology to present its theses, analyses and evidences more effectively. After exploring options, we found the iframe to be the best way to render Ross’s work on our site. We recognize that an iframe may not render the contents of the paper correctly on all devices and apologize for any inconvenience.
Shawna Ross is an Assistant Professor of modern British literature and the digital humanities at Texas A&M University. Her collection, Reading Modernism with Machines, coedited with James O’Sullivan, comes out from Palgrave in fall 2016. Her work also appears in JML, DHQ, and the Henry James Review.
July 15, 2015
Ben Miller
This week: There’s a strong current of science and technology on the Twitter breeze. Read more… This Week in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy
July 9, 2015
Tyler Fox
This week: #DH2015 Read more… This Week in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy
