Data Visualization Activity #2: Venn Diagramming the Work of the Software Studies Initiative

Posted by on Feb 18, 2014 in Lindsey, Projects | 3 Comments

Our final in-class activity on February 18th was this Venn diagram exercise–basically, an attempt to cull and visualize data from the data visualization projects of the Software Studies Initiative. (How meta!) After taking a look at the Initiative’s Projects page, we divided up the six categories (Social Media; Art and Design; Film, Video, TV, and Motion Graphics; Video […]

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Data Visualization Activity #1: Wordles

Posted by on Feb 18, 2014 in Colby, Kerishma, Laura, Lindsey, Projects | 15 Comments

Visualizing word frequency in each thesis draft netted the following results: As a second step, we used Wordle to generate data about word frequency in source texts related to each project:

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Resources for Week #4: Textual Analysis & Data Visualization

Posted by on Feb 18, 2014 in Lindsey, Resources | No Comments

Open Google Doc (Lindsey’s notes) Today’s Tools Wordle Projects of the Software Studies Initiative Visual.ly LucidChart A.nnotate Reading Tooling Up for Digital Humanities (Stanford) The Data Journalism Handbook (see especially Chapter 7, “Using Data Visualization to Find Insights in Data”) Lev Manovich, “The Algorithms of Our Lives” (The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2013) What […]

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Writing Goals for the Next Week

Posted by on Feb 11, 2014 in Announcements, Lindsey | No Comments

Today we revisited our goal-setting from last week’s class, and set a new round for this week: Colby: Outline new outline, start writing second draft (add more on performance, “fill in the gaps”) Kerishma: Outline Danaerys section and have most of it written. Mail what’s finished to Dr. U by Friday. Work on edits of previous sections. […]

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Class Mural.ly on This Week’s Sociology Reading

Posted by on Feb 11, 2014 in Colby, Kerishma, Laura, Lindsey, Projects, Resources | No Comments

This digital mural (made using Mural.ly) had “analog” origins. We first sorted the core ideas of each of this week’s three readings onto notecards… …and then mixed it up, building a map of all notecards that looked at where our source material was in alignment: After we collaborated on our physical web/map/mural, we used Mural.ly […]

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Resources for Week #3: Digital Ethnography (& Digital Social Research)

Posted by on Feb 11, 2014 in Lindsey, Resources | No Comments

Watch …see more at Mediated Cultures Read Open Google Doc for Week #3 Lindsey’s Notes on This Week’s Reading Inspiration: Projects from the Digital Ethnography Research Centre What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research (January 31, 2014) Blog of the Digital Labor Working Group Respond/Create What is Mural.ly? Mural.ly: How it Works Our mural

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Noortje Marres on The Birth of Social Media Methods

Posted by on Feb 7, 2014 in Lindsey, Resources | No Comments

These slides, taken from Noortje Marres’ keynote address to the Digital Methods Summer School of 2013, may provide us with some useful talking points for our upcoming session: The Birth of Social Media Methods from Digital Methods Initiative

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Lindsey’s Notes on This Week’s Reading

Posted by on Feb 6, 2014 in Lindsey, Resources | No Comments

General tip: As you read your assigned article, I strongly suggest you make an outline of it–try to understand how it is put together. This practice is one that will eventually help with both speed and comprehension. While scholarly articles are often written according to discipline-, language-, or even university-specific templates or guidelines, the structure […]

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Writing Goals for the Next Week

Posted by on Feb 4, 2014 in Announcements, Lindsey | One Comment

Just a reminder! Today we decided on the following writing goals for the next seven days: Colby: Edit whole thesis draft, based on Lindsey and Steve’s comments Kerishma: Edit thesis draft, write Arya section (possibly write Danaerys section, if time/interest allow) Laura: Finish writing Part 1 of thesis, develop main argument for Part  2 Lindsey: Comment (by Monday) on […]

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Notes on Privacy From Today’s Class

Posted by on Feb 4, 2014 in Announcements, Lindsey | 2 Comments

Here’s a quick recap (posted on the blog for everyone’s convenience) of today’s discussion of student privacy. This discussion occurred, as I noted in my previous post on the subject, because I read a blog post from Josh Honn this past weekend, and that post made me rethink my own teaching habits. Everyone said that they […]

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