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“Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games”-Game Development in a Global Pandemic
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Justin Wigard Prior to receiving the 2020 DH Summer Seed Grant, I was the recipient of a 2018 DH Summer Seed Grant, and that report can be found here. Since 2018, this project has grown from a pedagogical DH project into my dissertation; as such, I applied for the 2020 DH Summer Seed Grant to further the development of Level 101, a serious game that is being developed with the program Unity to address gaps in game studies and higher education. This grant went towards three components of research and development in…
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Visualizing German-Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Ryan Carty and Matthew Handelman In the summer of 2019, the DH@MSU Summer Seed Grant enabled Ryan and Matt to build the code for prototype visualizations of archival data of German-Jewish intellectual correspondences during the Weimar Republic. This work is part of a larger, ongoing project, also funded by a Digital Humanities Fellowship from the Research Association Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, to map the social networks that constituted German-Jewish intellectual life in the early twentieth century, especially those networks surrounding liberal-democratic newspaper the Frankfurter Zeitung and the philosopher, journalist, and later film critic,…
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The Collapse of the USSR: A Living Archive on the End of the USSR and Afterward
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Martha Olcott The funding that I received from the Digital Humanities program helped support my attendance at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, where I completed the 2-week course on Humanities Data and Mapping Environments, and supported some of the cost of James Madison College student team members attending HILT course on Getting Started with Data, Tools and Platforms (which I attended along with Michael Downs and Bridget McBride), as well as ILiADS (which I attended along with Michael Downs, Sofia Cupal and Ryan Lumsden, and…
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Campus as Laboratory: An Oral History of MSU’s Campus Archaeology Program
Summer 2019 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Autumn Painter and A.L. McMichael The primary goal of this project is to span best practices in oral history research and archaeology, while promoting the public outreach missions of both Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) and MSU. The project began with a series of interviews with the founder of CAP, Dr. Lynne Goldstein, followed by the creation of an accessible, public-facing web presence from which to share the oral history and media documentation of twelve years of CAP. The DH@MSU Seed Grant funded the project team’s research assistant to transcribe the audio interviews…
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The Longhua Civilian Assembly Center: 1943 to 1945
The Longhua Civilian Assembly Center: 1943 to 1945 Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Daniel Fandino and Erica Holt Summary of seed grant activity The summer seed grant from DH@MSU allowed for the collection of photos, documents and other information on the Longhua Civilian Assembly Centre in Shanghai, China. Background of the Longhua Civilian Assembly Center This project aims to preserve the history of the former Longhua Civilian Assembly Center through the creation of a publicly accessible digital archive. The Longhua Civilian Assembly Center served to house close to 2000 foreign residents of Shanghai from 1943 to 1945…
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The Weeping Season
The Weeping Season Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Alexandra Hidalgo Project Synopsis When I was a child, my father embodied magic with every step and word. He was a black belt in Karate who could walk on his hands, and he meditated over a glass of water every morning, inviting me to help him predict the future through what I saw in the water with my mind’s eye. Every afternoon we would sit on the floor and imagine a flying carpet under us. We told each other about the world we flew over, one brimming with…
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Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games
Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games – Interdepartmental Collaboration, Tutorials, and Pre-Production Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Justin Wigard and Beth LaPensée Project Overview We applied for the DH Summer Seed Grant to further the development of Level 101, a video game developed with the program Unity that addresses a pedagogical gap in higher education. This grant was to go towards three components of research and development in order to further the development of Level 101: 1) Unity development assets, 2) video games created with Unity, and 3) research texts associated with game…
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Theme and word analysis in the contemporary corrido (Mexican Ballad)
Theme and word analysis in the contemporary corrido (Mexican Ballad) Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Miguel A. Cabañas and Mary Ann Lugo Thanks to the support of Digital Humanities at MSU, our Theme and Word Analysis of the Corrido initiative has evolved from a proposal to a collaborative, textual-analysis project exploring violent themes in the contemporary corrido and narco-corrido from the 1960s to the present. In the past six months, we have assembled a project team, narrowed the scope of our inquiry, and begun designing a research strategy for our theme and word analysis…
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Bhakti Virtual Archive
Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA) Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Jon Keune and Gil Ben-Herut Summary of seed grant activity The summer seed grant from DH@MSU enabled us to create a set of static image mockups that were integrated into a basic website that demonstrates the search capabilities of the Bhakti Virtual Archive (BHAVA) that we are working to build: http://www.regionalbhakti.org/bhava/walkthrough/. We contracted with Addis Enterprises (AE) of Lansing, who consulted with us about what we were looking for in a user interface, pointed out issues that we will need to address when it…
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Digital & Community Publishing Collective
Digital & Community Publishing Collective Summer 2018 Seed Grant Funding Report Report submitted by Kate Birdsall and Emily Jenkins The Digital & Community Publishing Collective (DCPC) at MSU is a new initiative that will centralize support for a broad range of publishing activities, including a monthly magazine, a literary journal, scholarly journals, a community of feminist filmmakers, a collaborative fandom, a blog, and a zine. The collective will offer publication resources for students and organizations at Michigan State University and for members of Greater Lansing and mid-Michigan communities. The DCPC will utilize its unique position within the Department of Writing,…