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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…