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  • Reflection on Final Project

    In the beginning of the semester, we worked together as a team of Humanities 100 students and professors to transcribe Payne and Froehlich’s 1747 travel journal. Using the digital copy of the journal, various digital humanities tools, and help from our professors, my classmates and I were able to look at the journal from both…

  • 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,…

  • 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…