We have a lot to accomplish: demos of Rap Genius and Pixton discussion of digital archives (what have you found?) the future of higher education (see readings on syllabus) and–workshopping final projects. Please come in with a rough outline and tools to share. Enjoy this beautiful day and see you in class tomorrow morning!

This short blog post on the Moonbat (Big ideas, big politics.) makes the same, limited move that much of what I’ve read before does: Copland begins with a nice little summary of Foucault’s confessional, and then turns to apply it … Continue reading →

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.

Special Interest Group discussion in another class, Critical Issues in the Teaching of Writing: Histories, Theories and Practices of Writing Centers and One-to-One Teaching, brought me Stephen Davenport Jukuri’s chapter in Stories from the Center, “Negotiating the ‘Subject’ of Composition: Writing Centers … Continue reading →

I got nothing.But on a serious note, I am thinking of using Movie Maker like I did for the last project. I will of course be taking video of people, and I think I messed around with it enough to be able to handle moving pictures. If not,I do not have a...

So, it's finally coming to the wire, so you know what that means: Final Project!I choose to take the creative route and see where it will take me. There are, however, so many options to choose from, so many topics to explore! But what to choose, what t...

Utilizing tools like Google ngrams has really broadened my ideas by looking at the rise of certain words and trends. Looking through various articles on the digital age, I’ve found that my interest has increasingly turned to social media and social media’s influence on both the younger and older generation. I don’t know what kind […]

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 […]

Tomorrow we will talk more about the tools you tried in class and brainstorm final projects. We’ll also look at what work is being done to make literary archives accessible. Blog about one of the links on our syllabus or find your own collection to discuss. Here is an interesting crowdsourced project called Transcribe Bentham […]

Turning from panopticism (which I’m still unsure is a word) toward Foucault’s confessional, I look at Mitchell McInnis’ blog post from Hoboeye.com, which seems to be a possibly-temporarily-defunct online publication about wandering. I annotate this because the beginning raises an interesting lens for thinking about Facebook–a similar lens to the one I am thinking through–though it […]

Looking around a few different electronic scholarly editions of authors’ works this week, I came across the Geographic Chronology project, which maps American author Willa Cather’s life and travels, in order to think about how they relate to her writing. Willa Cather, known widely for  O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark, according to Wikipedia, […]

I would have never guessed that this article was post-9/11, but according to this vaguely-identified HTML version of it, it was published in 2002. I don’t know why no one has considered the panopticon and the internet more recently, but maybe that’s why I have to bring it back to the fore. I’m so noble. […]

Originally posted on Rebecca Frost Davis:
Crowdsourcing could be a silver bullet for integrating digital humanities methods into the undergraduate curriculum.  Why? “Crowd” by flickr user James Cridland Crowdsourcing means getting the general public to do tasks. Jeff Howe explains the phenomenon in “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” (Wired Magazine, June 2006) by analogy with outsourcing. …

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 […]

The Circle is very similar to The Devil Wears Prada, The Giver, and 1984. Even bits and pieces of it remind me of Harry Potter too. It suggests danger. Mae Holland is similar to Andy Sachs from the Devil Wears Prada because both girls try to do crazy things simply for the sake of their […]

I don’t know about others, but I totally dislike the character Mae Holland. I don’t even know why she is the main character because there is not really much about her that sets her apart from others. She is very comparable to Isabella Swan from the failed Twilight books, because like Bella, Mae appears to […]

Jeez, I thought the last article I read was too old. This 1997 article applies a somewhat Foucauldian framework to thinking about the “Holy Trinity” of the internet in its adolescence–three ideas which have had a profound impact and may be seen as foundational to today’s internet culture: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around […]

At the beginning of this semester I found myself in a really deep hole. My sophomore year in college, to fulfill my Business Administration minor requirements, I had to take Accounting I and bought a $300 textbook. I knew I had to take Accounting II at some point but I didn’t know the publisher published […]

Here is a Q & A with a member of the IAB that highlights his stance on programs like Ad-Blocker.

Police in northern Germany have uncovered a trove of millions of stolen email addresses and passwords. The find comes less than three months after a similar case of cyber crime involving 16 million hacked accounts.

This 2005 article is based on a study of UK post-primary schools: the researcher observed and interviewed students, teachers, and staff about methods of monitoring what students do on school computers and students’ resistance of these methods. He begins by establishing a framework based on Bentham’s panopticon, which, importantly, works via the prisoners’ perception, but […]

Thank you, Google! This is such a neat tool, and if I had a project that involved more intensive big data-type research, this would be amazing. Google Ngrams allows you to enter search terms, and then it graphs the occurrences of those terms across all of Google Books’ holdings. For now, I played around on […]

On Monday we’ll be looking at how technology can expand the way we read and do research. For the daily create blog post I would like you to play around with google ngrams. This tool allows you to do word searches across a very wide selection of books (5 million and counting). What will you […]

I only read the intro to this book, because who has time to read more?, but Lessig sets up an interesting argument here. He begins with two stories: that of the Wright brothers and the subsequent Supreme Court case in with the Causby brothers challenged airlines’ rights to trespass in their “property”–the airspace above their […]

So for my project I want to focus on Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Both of these men have been advocates of internet privacy and agree that our personal rights are being invaded. I would like to actually draw attention to Snowden’s Ted Talk which he did through a computer and how he said that […]

There’s an idea that everything that’s put on the internet, should be free and accessible for the public’s general usage. In today’s world where we can easily find entire copies of books online for free, it seems as though “free culture” is already starting to take root. Lawrence Lessig, one of the pioneers of this […]

Like I mentioned before I am most likely going with the critical option for the final project, because I feel that I am the type of person who isn’t creative at all and wouldn’t be able to come up with something amazing. For my critical piece I have decided to use Word Web App (Word […]

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, […]

I need to go out into the world and do some reading, but for now, for the Daily Create assignment, I’ll lay out a plan for attacking this thing. 1. Gonna do some reading–I have my crazy to-do list calendar. All that dark green is time I’ll be spending reading so that I can coherently […]

Today we’re gonna learn about Creative Commons. I had a general idea of what this term meant before–something about granting license to use or not use creative works online in certain ways. So, a quick Google search brings me to Wikipedia which brings the details into focus: Creative Commons is a non-profit which developed and […]