Author: Katie Faull
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Johanna Drucker on Visual Rhetoric
Over the last week or so, we have revisited visualization as a technique for interpretation. In our production of networks using Gephi, the process of creating data, preparing it for input into the software, manipulating it once in the software and then interpreting it once entered has been foremost. As we move on to mapping,…
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Blog #3 Timelines
Thinking about how we represent history has been a question that has occupied us for millennia. Why does chronology of events matter? What can it show? How can we represent history? In his Introduction, Grafton observes that “Teachers and theorists claimed, over and over again, that chronology and geography were the two eyes of history:…
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First Post
Hi I’m a beginner DH student! This is a practice image I made in Photoshop. And I am not very good at Photoshop… 🙁
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Blog Post # 1
Blog #1: “On Material and Digital Archives” Prompt: This week you have visited several websites that are based on archival materials. Go to the DH project Sample book and look at the projects that are categorized under Archive. What are some of the advantages to creating a digital artifact from archival documents? What are some…
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Welcome to Digital Humanities!
Welcome to Digital Humanities, one of the courses being taught in the Comparative Humanities program this semester! Over the course of the semester we will be working with manuscript materials from the pre-Revolutionary period of North America that reveal some of the complex and unexpected relationships, activities and modes of awareness that Native Americans, European…