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Topics of interest #2

Open livlab opened 9 years ago

livlab commented 9 years ago

Add specific things that we might want to explore.

r4isstatic commented 9 years ago
livlab commented 9 years ago

quantitative approaches to anthro/archeo are neat from Ted https://twitter.com/knowtheory/status/615889197631586305

livlab commented 9 years ago

getting structured news data w/o introducing a lot of work. from Jacqui https://twitter.com/jacqui/status/615889163607502849

knowtheory commented 9 years ago

So the interesting thing to me about digital humanities is often the existence of, or creation of corpora from which insight can be extracted.

livlab commented 9 years ago

what we call the people doing this kind of work from https://twitter.com/jacqui/status/615887989797990400

livlab commented 9 years ago

structured storylines for news from Jacqui https://twitter.com/jacqui/status/615888775202373632

daliawithnoh commented 9 years ago

I have been mulling over some examples of data used for humanities research and would like to bring it here. I'm not sure how to connect it all. Following up on Paul's mention of data and historians, here are some work in this field which I know about 1 Jana Diesner, http://context.lis.illinois.edu/ Network analysis to try to measure the impact of documentaries. 2 Susie Pak wrote a business history book about the network created by JP Morgan http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674073036 I've heard Prof. Pak talk about the fact that networks exist in finance, especially hedge funds, but they are increasingly private and elitist. 3 HistPhil http://histphil.org/ It's blog about the history of philanthropy but they often write for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. So that made me think about dedicated journalism for a specific audience and sector. 4 I heard a presentation by Tanya Clement, from the University of Texas at Austin, where she described High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/), the software she developed for making sound collections searchable and accessible. She is also looking into Digital Humanities academic programs.

snyi commented 9 years ago

No discussion of digital humanities is complete without Franco Moretti: https://litlab.stanford.edu/

The thing that interests me about digital humanities vis-a-vis journalism: new and emerging ideas of "the public" (or publics, plural) and its relationship to media. I'm certain there's scholarship on this but I don't have it at hand

acrymble commented 9 years ago

I'd like to explore visualising whole archives. How can we visually explore an archive with 170km of shelving and find what we want? Keywords are so limiting

daliawithnoh commented 9 years ago

Adding American Archive of Public Broadcasting http://americanarchive.org/. New to me. I heard about it today from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) newsletter. It's a collection of American public radio and TV content dating back to the 1950s. This is perfect example of Digital Humanities scholars wanting to research stuff like this. Now this site is making previously unprocessed (archive speak for unavailable and unsearchable) material available.