Hi all, We finally posted our “finished,” or not so finished, pieces to CommentPress. Because our site is not open for public view quite yet, I’d like to share my piece–my subchapter–titled “The Unfinished Text: Writing Digitally” here. I hope you enjoy it and, please, let me know your thoughts! The Unfinished Text: Writing Digitally […]

Last time I posted Elizabeth Dillon came to our university to discuss the Early Caribbean Digital Archive of which she is a co-creator. It was very enlightening to listen to her talk about creating the archive and the different plans she and her partners have for the archive in the future. It made me realize […]

Today Dr. Elizabeth Dillion, co-creator of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, is coming to campus to talk about the archive and discuss her new book, New World Drama: Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849. In order to prepare for her visit, my class was asked to tool around the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and […]

As I was doing research for my paper on the unfinished text, I came across an article written by Jesse Stommel called “The Digital Humanities is About Breaking Stuff.” In it, Stommel talks about how the Digital Humanities “breaks” apart literature, so to speak. To support his claim, he cites examples from a Digital Humanities […]

I had to watch this video for class and I couldn’t help but share it with you all! There are quite a few things that I love and find interesting about this video. The main one being that it uses clips from Disney movies (Disney is one of the strictest enforcers of copyright) in order to […]

I have exciting news, my Digital Humanities class is putting together a CommentPress book. We’ve been collaborating on the topic for the book for the past few weeks and finally narrowed it down to three subtopics: Digital Humanities and New Texts, Digital Humanities and Pop Culture, and Digital Humanities and Pedagogy. We split up the […]

I have a confession to make: I’ve never used Google Maps. Well, not “never.” I used it once, before I went to Paris, to see the University where I was dorming. However, besides that one experience, I had never used Google Maps. Until tonight! This week in class we will be learning about Google Maps […]

In keeping with the collaboration theme in my last few posts, I decided to share with you an overview of my class discussion for Amy E. Earhart’s “Challenging Gaps: Redesigning Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.” There are three important points in her essay that I found most interesting and plan on sharing with the class […]

This week’s “weekly create” is to play around with a tool of our choice. Since I wasn’t too thrilled about Docuburst (see Docuburst is Bursting with Information?) I decided to play around with a tool that is much more comprehensible and helpful. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to Voyant! Voyant is […]

For class this week I am in charge of leading a discussion on Amy E. Earhart’s essay “Challenging Gaps: Redesigning Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.” Because I found the piece to be enlightening in terms of digital humanities work, especially collaboration, I decided to share a brief summary of her work with you. Earhart begins […]

Kenneth M. Price in his article, “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?” , uses an archive he collaboratively created as an example of how “archives” are much more than what that title or other titles (edition, project, database, archive, thematic research collection, etc.) suggest. His “archive,” the Walt Whitman Archive, […]

This week’s assignment for my Digital Literary Studies class is to follow a few Digital Humanities tweeters on Twitter. (Who knew there were so many DH tweeters! I guess I should have guessed. You can tell I’m not too familiar with Twitter…!) I followed quite a few of them! There were so many tweeters to […]

I used DocuBurst for the first time tonight…and I’m still deciding how I think it went. (As a side note, Docuburst is a free online tool that allows the user to visualize content of their own work or published work. The user can search a specific word in a maximum of two documents in order […]

Tonight I explored Google Ngram, but it wasn’t the first time I did so. I find Google Ngram to be a very interesting tool, a tool that I could spend quite a bit of time playing with. I find it fascinating to track a word, or words, in lots and lots (and lots!) of books […]

When I think about my relationship with the the Digital Humanities, a few things come to mind. I think about the way in which the internet and technology are not only changing the way we communicate, but the way we teach and the way we learn, too. I think about the vast knowledge I have […]

My final project has “finally” been posted! You can find it under “Final Project Introduction and Appendix,” “The Fallacy of Digital Rights,” and “Self Evident Truths.” (I suggest reading it in that order!) The introduction gives a thorough explanation of the project’s purpose and a brief explanation of the point it attempts to convey. As […]

Here’s another sneak peak at my final project. Read Adrian Chen’s “Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web” and participate in the poll! Looking forward to reading your thoughts! -K    

As I’m working through my final project–which will be an interpretation of digital age rights and non-rights within Dave Eggers’ The Circle–I created a poll that I would like to share with you in order to get your participation in the poll and also give you a sneak peak at the project! It may seem […]

I took today’s daily create challenge from ds106: Create your own Book Spine Story. Here’s the result!

I took ds106′s Daily Create Challenge for today: to make a piece of art in celebration of my “word of the year.” I choose “graduate,” but the words didn’t stop there.

I just spent some time “digging” through some of the archives that my professor gave my class to look at. On my initial search through the archives, I was quite overwhelmed at the amount of information. There were so many books, letters, manuscripts, and the like to look at! I must admit, I had no […]

I just had my first experience with Google Ngram. My first thought upon viewing the website, its search boxes, and large graphs was: “How do I work this?!” It seemed a little overwhelming at first. I wasn’t sure what to search. Yes, that’s right, I had all sorts of possible information at my finger tips […]

As you know, I decided on a final project topic and now it is time to get to work on it! I will be creating a Manifesto of Privacy Rights in the Digital Age on Storify. My hope is to make the manifesto resemble a list of rights. Each right will contain either a video, […]

For my final project, I would like to work on a somewhat creative project: A Manifesto of Privacy Rights in the Digital Age. After reading The Circle and its motto, “Privacy is theft,” as well as the article “Why Facebook is Wrong About Privacy” by Marshall Kirkpatrick, I realize the importance of privacy on the internet […]

Well, I finished The Circle. Here is my book review: “Encircled by The Circle“ Dave Egger’s The Circle is a dystopia of the world of the Circle, a purely technologically dominated world. The Circle is an internet company whose TruYou invention, a way to be “truly you” on the internet by having one identity, one password, […]

In keeping with my posts about  Dave Egger’s The Circle, my blog post today will feature a look at an important moment in the novel and my response to it. That being said, I’d like to look at the scene in which Mae steals a kayak, gets caught by the Circle’s SeeChange camera implanted in the […]

As I was reading Dave Egger’s The Circle the other night, I came across another interesting aphorism that I wanted to share with you: “Privacy is theft (303).” Towards the second half of the novel, this phrase gets a lot of attention. “The Circlers,” as the narrator aptly calls them, often use this phrase to defend […]

For class we have begun reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. In short, the book follows Mae, a young girl, out of college by two years, who gets a job at the Circle, a (very, very) massive internet company. The Circle thrives on community, especially community ties via their social media. They aim to make […]

According to an article on medicalnewstoday.com called “Happiness is Viral, Thanks to Social Media”, the University of California in San Diego has done research to suggest that social media posts, such as status updates on Facebook, can spread happiness among one’s friends and/or followers. The study claims that a happy Facebook update causes one’s Facebook […]

As I was scrolling through my Twitter feed, past tweets from The Food Network and Buzzfeed, trying to find an article from a reputable source I could share with you on my blog, I came across an article tweeted by The New York Times. The article, which I am linking to my blog here is titled […]