Opinion piece based upon the debate on whether or not book are slowly dying. The writer seems to think that that is just an appalling idea,
Looking at the statistics as to why people prefer an actual physical book over an e-book. …
So I played around with RapGenious and got a kick out of it. I went through a couple of songs, but my favorite was anaconda by Nicki Minaj. For a song that pretty much talks about women and their butts, people looked so far into the lyrics. Meanwhile I thought …
It’s been something that has been around since the beginning of publishing texts and works of writing. Simply by having a family member or friend read it over before submitting the work is peer review. But the idea that the world is becoming the “peer[s]” in peer review, it kind …
Emily Dickinson Archives:
http://www.emilydickinson.org/
As I looked through all of the suggested archives for this week, I saved the Emily Dickinson one for last, rightfully so. This was because it was extremely easy to navigate and make sense of the full purpose of the website and set of archives of …
Unfortunately, I was not able to make class today. However, as I got into doing this week’s create, I was searching twitter for digital humanity contributors and came across @PhillyDHTweets which is a digital humanities group in the greater Philadelphia area. They tweeted a link to a variety of DH …
I have never used Ngram before but I played around with it a lot. I decided to look at popular contemporary literature that has been all the crave lately, like Twilight, and compare it to another popular trend, zombies. With The Walking Dead premiering in another month or so, and …
Digital humanities is becoming a way of life. It makes things much more convenient at times, yet it challenges the norms that prior, us as humans were used to. For instance, when getting our list of books for class, we instantly go online to see if we can order a …
Last semester I look an undergraduate class “Literary Studies in the Digital Age” with Dr. Travis. This semester I have officially begun my studies for my Master’s degree and decided to take her graduate level of the course titled “Digital Literary Studies.” It has the same concept but will be …
This inspiring short is a beautifully rendered reminder that social media engagement is actually disengagement from life in real time.
“Social” media at it’s finest!…
As time has progressed, technologies continue to evolve, taking old ideas and basis to new levels and renovations. It is with these new ideas and creations that we must learn to reinvent our thoughts and process of imagination to integrate them into our daily lives. It is most important, however, …
After many trials and errors, I am pleased to present my final project: http://www.telescopictext.org/text/YK7tzqqGtRQ6U
I am still finishing up my analytical component to my project, and that will be posted at a later date. Feed back and opinions on my Telescopictext will be greatly appreciated! Please let me know what …
http://www.telescopictext.org/text/t4hHzQh8c2TZ3
There’s the link to what I believe will be my final project. I’m currently working on another piece that is a bit more story-like and I’m sort of thinking about using that one instead. I’m not entirely sure yet.
Honestly, this platform is a lot more difficult that I …
I’ve been working on my final project. Like I said, I was going to use the platform telescopic text… and boy is this stuff difficult! It makes you think in all different and distorted ways. It’s difficult, because you can’t really write as you’re going along. I think that what …
I want to use that medium, telescopic text, to tell the story of getting my spine fused six years ago. It’s something I don’t really talk about any nor do many people know because my scar i hidden, but I feel like it may make so an interesting story. I …
I’ve decided to use the website: http://www.telescopictext.org/ and create a story via this website. It is a very interesting website in that each word that is clicked on brings about a new type of story of sentence. All of this is personal and you can change the words and sentences …
The passage which I will be responding to is when Mae goes to dinner with her parents and her mother explains to her that she saw an old friend and began “bragging” about how well Mae is doing and threw in the amount of money that she makes.
This scene …
How long can you go without touching your phone? Giorgio Armani Fragrances will donate one day of clean water to a child in need for every 10 minutes you go without your phone. Take the challenge!
Only a few days left!!…
When I first read this I immediately thought “colt”! But as I thought more about this aphorism, I began to realize how very true this is today. For instance, think about twitter, and instagram specifically… Both of these social media outlets create a sense of immediacy and telling specific instances. …
My Digital Story
“A Reminiscing Passageway” By: Nicole Gubelli…
The Daily Create:
prompt:
Create a portrait of someone without showing their face.Can you capture a person’s essence by only showing a part of the individual?
—I chose to use a self portrait for this daily create. I believe that the image is strong in exposing my scar. …
I’m trying to develop my ideas for my storyboard. I want to make my story personal, yet relate able to my audience. I’m thinking about possibly telling a story through my poetry and then working on an audio story an incorporating some of my photography in it. Still brainstorming……
http://storycorps.org/listen/barbara-amaya-and-bianca-belteton/
—> I chose this story board to listen to and decided it was one of my favorites out of the five I listened to prior. It stood out to me because of the content. Such a deep, strong content, yet the mother, Barbara Amaya, was able to fully talk …
One of the coolest, most interesting websites for fun creations. Especially for English majors who are so used to a structured way of writing.…
It’s crazy to think that the internet is constantly at my finger tips. Nearly every ounce of technology I own I am in contact with the internet. My phone, my television, my laptop, my desktop, my IPad, my Kindle… you get the idea. No matter what, I am always updating …
