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What DH Means to Me: Daniel Fandino
As a graduate student, Digital Humanities has meant new avenues for intellectual exploration, opportunities to develop as an instructor, and a sense of community that connected me to people across the university.
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Project Highlight: The American Religious Sounds Project
The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP), is a collaborative research initiative co-directed by Amy DeRogatis (Michigan State University) and Isaac Weiner (Ohio State University), which aims to offer new resources for documenting and interpreting the diversity of American religious life by attending to its varied sonic cultures.
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Undergraduate Student Profile: Oliviah Brown
Learn about Oliviah’s undergraduate experience and why she chose to minor in Digital Studies.
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Project Highlight: This is Indian Country
This is Indian Country is a digital cultural map of indigenous community issues worldwide. This project began as a collaborative project in Spring 2016 with Dr. Heather Howard’s ANP 433: Contemporary American Indian Communities class at Michigan State University.
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Teaching Highlight: Chicano/Latino Studies Oral Histories
Staff members of the Lab for Education in & Advancement of Digital Research (LEADR) work with History and Anthropology faculty to bring digital tools and methods into their classrooms.
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Spin Offs: The MI Diaries as a Starting Point
November 4th, 2021, 2PM-4PM, Virtual Registration for Locus: Spin Offs: The MI Diaries as a Starting Point is HERE. What are all the ways that an existing Digital Humanities project can be adapted, grafted, remixed, and spun off into other projects? How can we creatively employ methods, ideas, data, and tools from one research group and use them to feed something new? MI Diaries has been collecting self-recorded audio reflections from Michigan residents since the Covid-19 lockdowns began in spring 2020. Participants respond to weekly questions like What are you grateful for this week? and Are there any news stories…
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Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Science
Partners: German Studies & Anthropology Theme: Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Science Date: 2/25/2015 Time: 3:00-5:00 Location: Main Library, 3 West, REAL Classroom Register to attend (space is limited) – bit.ly/1zLqpo9 Digital technology has brought about a renewed interest in geographic space in humanities and social science research. Projects using spatial analysis or cultural mapping take many different forms: aggregated data layered on geographic information systems (GIS), archaeological or archival objects tied to their places of origin, a visualization tool to illustrate differences in space and place, and plotting sites of encounter and technologies of modernity geographically and temporally. This LOCUS…
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Intersections of Digital Technology and Gender Studies
Seeking feedback on an idea for research or teaching? Developing research in progress that you’d like to share? Interested in presenting a poster? This Locus event will provide a collegial forum for scholars in any discipline to share research developments at any stage (including brainstorming, works in progress, and/or fully developed projects), as well as ideas and best practices for teaching. Please feel free to reprise past presentations or posters to share with the MSU community in this forum! The Locus event is scheduled for Wednesday, November 4th, 12:00-1:30 p.m. on Zoom (link sent to registrants before the event). Register…
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Visualization, Gaming, & Digital Storytelling
What are new directions in research and teaching about serious gaming? What is the current and future social impact of immersive technologies? What are emerging areas of inclusive game development? What are current directions in visualization, including (among other areas) virtual reality and text analysis? In what ways are digital tools transforming the process of storytelling? This LOCUS will provide a collegial forum for broadly exploring visualization, gaming, and digital storytelling. We encourage wide participation from scholars in any discipline to share developments in their research at any stage (including brainstorming, works in progress, and/or fully developed projects). The fall…
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Narrative
November 29th, 20183:00-4:30pmDigital Scholarship Lab Flex Space, Main Library (2nd Floor West) Program Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games Justin Wigard Within the field of game studies, video games are explained, analyzed, and dissected through modes of meaning-making that lack interactivity, a surprising problem given that the medium of the video game is, according to Mark J. P. Wolf, a medium hingent upon player interactivity for “without player activity, there would be no game.” I argue that the video game represents an area of great potential as a tool of meaning-making, one that is ripe for intervention through…
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Social Media and Social Media Analysis
Partners – Quello Center, WIDE Research CenterTheme – Social Media and Social Media Analysis Date – December 7th, 2017Time – 3:00-5:00pmLocation – Green Room, Main Library (4th Floor West) Social media comprise an important set of platforms for understanding the spread of information (along with mis/disinformation) on some of the most urgent social and political issues of the moment. Whether it is information sharing, the homogeneity or heterogeneity of social networks, issues of personal privacy, or concerns about election hacking, social media analysis provides a means of reckoning with public opinion on a global scale. Social media platforms provide data…
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Modeling
Partners – Art, Art History, & Design and Media & InformationTheme – Modeling Date – December 1st, 2016Time – 3:00-5:00Location – REAL Classroom, 3W, Main Library Models are simplified representations that can be used to examine an idea, experiment with features and variables, or create an immersive experience. Across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, scholars have turned to modeling – including but not limited to virtual reconstruction models, topic models, data models, and network models – as a way to explore systems and provide new ways to access visual artifacts and spaces. In order to foster an interdisciplinary conversation…
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Access in a Digital Environment
Partners: Experience Architecture Program and Museum Studies Program Theme: Access in a Digital Environment Date: 2/24/2016 Time: 3:00-5:00 Location: Libraries, REAL Classroom, 3 West While more websites and digital experiences are created, we must ask questions about access. In order to foster an interdisciplinary conversation on this topic we are seeking proposals up to 300 words for 7-10 minute presentations that engage with one or more of the following issues: We are especially receptive to hearing about works in progress relating to research, teaching, or any other type of work that wrestles with the challenges of access in the digital…
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Visualizing and Narrating Space
Partners: School of Journalism and Department of Geography Theme: Visualizing and Narrating Space Date: 11/18/2015 Time: 3:00-4:00 Location: Libraries, REAL Classroom, 3 West With the advent of digital tools for mapping and geographic information systems (GIS), the increased ability to narrate stories and conduct research over space and time has furnished scholars with new opportunities to visualize their work geospatially. Equally, the adoption of other visualization approaches—from graphs and trees to network diagrams and infographics—has enriched discussions and provided arguments on a variety topics, cutting across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences—as well as beyond the academy. This LOCUS seeks to bring…
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Pedagogy in a Digital Age
Partners: Department of History and Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Theme: Pedagogy in a Digital Age Date: 10/14/2015 Time: 3:00-5:00 Location: Libraries, REAL Classroom, 3 West Increasingly, knowledge is created, stored, and shared digitally. Both users and creators in a digital age are challenged by the form of information and the tools and methods that are used to make sense of it. Students are voracious consumers of digital information, but studies consistently show that they often don’t have the essential skills to critically engage with digital information or the ability to become effective digital creators. Educators seeking…
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Graduate Student Profile: John Vsetecka
John Vsetecka is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University. He is a historian of eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and twentieth-century Ukraine, and he is currently finishing a dissertation that focuses on the aftermath of the 1932-33 famine in Soviet Ukraine, now referred to as the Holodomor. During his time at MSU, John worked on several DH projects related to Ukraine and his research on famine.
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Graduate Student Profile: Katherine I. Knowles
Katherine I. Knowles is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is also pursuing her Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. She is also pursuing the Certification in College Teaching to further explore digital pedagogy practices. She received her BA from Hanover College and her MA from the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute.
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Graduate Student Profile: Dani Willcutt
Dani Willcutt is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Michigan State University where her current focus is U.S. Food and Labor History. Her dissertation work is titled, Serving it Up in the Capital City: Restaurants, Labor, and Restaurant Labor in Lansing, Michigan: 1963-2008, and focuses on the role of restaurants and restaurant labor in a Midwestern, rustbelt city.
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Local Distinguished Lecture: Sharon Leon
“From Scholar to System to Scale: Generating Meso-level Historical Data to Recover the Lived Experiences of Enslaved People” Thursday, February 24, 2022, 4:00-5:30pm Please join the entire DH@MSU Community in launching our new annual Local Distinguished Lecture! We are thrilled to hear from Sharon Leon as she speaks about her work. Find the abstract below, and register to attend here. Abstract: How shall we represent their lives? The careful and responsible representation of what we can know about the lived experiences of the enslaved is a central focus of current digital work both for historians and for library and archives…
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AREPR and Omeka S: Developing Tools for the DH Community
Seed Grant Summer 2022 Report Christina Boyles The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR), or the Emergency Response Archive of Puerto Rico, is a digital open access repository of Puerto Rican artifacts of disaster pertaining to Hurricanes Irma and María (2017), the Puerto Rican earthquake swarm (2019-2022), and COVID-19 (2020-present). These artifacts include oral histories from grassroots community organizations and individuals across Puerto Rico who implemented innovative disaster response strategies in the wake of these crises. They also include documents, images, and videos of these events. To ensure that AREPR presents these materials with the utmost care, we…