Class Schedule for April and May
April 1: class meeting April 2-5: trip to NCUR! April 8: class meeting canceled April 29: class meeting (w/ special guest Prof. Lauren Klein) May 6: class field trip! May 10: class trip to dance performance (this is a Saturday evening show–please plan accordingly. If you can, bring in $15 to cover the cost of the […]
Resources for Week #10: Audience, Your NCUR Mission
Lindsey’s Google Doc Overlapping Audiences Your NCUR Mission Enjoy the trip! Document the experience as much as possible: take photo, videos, even just straight audio (your phone may be able to record this) At the end of each day, write down your thoughts and impressions (do this either by hand, on a device, or through […]
Schedule for 3/25
Hi everyone, Here’s our updated plan for next Tuesday, which I worked out with Colby and Laura at the end of today’s session. 2-3 PM: Colby and Laura have one-on-one meetings with Jenny (Reading Room) 3 PM: Kerishma gives her draft presentation (3rd Floor Classroom) Following presentation/feedback, we’ll use the classroom as workspace. I will […]
Resources/Notes for Weeks #8 & #9: Practice Presentations and Individual Consults
Week 8: Practicing for NCUR This Week’s Location: 2nd Floor Classroom, beginning promptly at 3 PM Order of Presenters: Kerishma, Colby, Laura Presentation Length: 15 minutes (we won’t cut you off if you go long, but we will tell you just how much longer you went, and give you advice on where and how to […]
Architecture of a Past Thesis Web Site: Fixed Gazes on Grotesque Gorging
This web site, Fixed Gazes on Grotesque Gorging, was created in 2013 to accompany an English (or English-ish) thesis on cannibalism tropes in zombie comics and movies, with special attention paid to The Walking Dead. The front page jumps directly into the research conducted by the student, with a couple of slides from her presentation materials […]
Resources for Week #7: Information Architecture
Readings and Resources Lindsey’s Google Doc Andrew McKinney, “Content Management Systems, Value, and the Interface as a Site of Production” “What Is Information Architecture?” (The Guardian) Facebook Links How Much Time Have You Wasted on Facebook? (TIME) 75 Amazing Facebook Statistics Facebook is collecting your data–500 terabytes a day (GigaOM) Past Thesis Projects Ellen White’s Benevolent […]
Resources for Week #6: Preparing to Present
Timeline JS & Dipity Lindsey’s weekly Google Doc GIS Revisited Quite possibly the best GIS-inspired mashup project ever InstaGIS Infographics
First Encounters with Franco Moretti
We began week five of this course with a sustained examination of Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (Verso, 2007). After each of you went off to try and master a chapter of this work (the resulting board work hastily captured by phone camera, above), you came back and created a sample […]
InstaGIS and Tri-State Demographics
For this activity, we used InstaGIS’s Infographics tool to take a snapshot of where each of us lives, as well as of the Macaulay area (and the Upper East Side, which is certainly an interesting point of comparison). As we come back together in the first week of March, we’ll further discuss what these GIS-inspired […]
Resources for Week #5: Moretti and Maps
Lindsey’s notes for the week (Google Doc) Introduction to Moretti (A.nnotate) Intro to GIS Spatial Humanities at the University of Lancaster, UK Tooling Up for Digital Humanities: Spatial Analysis Barbara L. Hui’s Introduction to Litmap Resources and Tools ArcGIS Open Source GIS Google Maps Google Earth InstaGIS Infographics Sample GIS Projects ArcGIS Sample Maps Lindsey’s Gatsby Map […]
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