Category: Week 2
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Week 2 – Rennie Heza
Ignorance, in the realm of digital scholarship, is not taking on a project too large, or asking a question too difficult to answer. Instead, ignorance is allow yourself to believe a project is perfect. As I talked through project ideas with library staff this week, the main goal of writing my project charter remained the same: seek…
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Week 2 recap: Let’s talk about text
This week was all about the text. On Monday, we were joined by Diane Jakacki as we dived into distant reading using Voyant. Voyant is a pretty easy tool to get the hang of so in no time our students were out of the gates analyzing the corpus we provided them as well as their own…
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My Refined Project Idea
Project Name The Representation of Anthracite Coal Miners: An Artistic Movement Project Summary “Through analyzing different forms of artistic mediums, I will identify the ways in which coal miners have been represented and the impact of their lives on the anthracite region.” Areas: Northumberland, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lackawanna, Columbia, and Carbon In 8 weeks, I want…
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Week 2 – Justin Guzman
LGBTQ+ Representation in Cinema: Hollywood vs Indie Representation in Hollywood Cinema is and has always been a reoccurring issue. Despite the pace at which society is advancing in terms of identity acceptance, Hollywood Cinema is somewhat behind. Indie Cinema (Independent) however, seems to be doing a way better job. A few of my research…
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Project Charter: China’s Internet Wave
Over the past week, we were introduced to several text analysis tools and it was interesting to learn that there are so many ways we can look at a text. Even the concept of close and distant reading is new to me, and it showed me the value of both being aware of the big…