class blog for HUM 380-COM 601. photo credit Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
I have decided to work on female-male ratio on Indian films for my final project. In India male are always priority in almost any thing , so for that reason I will like to do female-male ratio for an Indian film. Still I am not sure which film I will choose.
For final project, I will be doing male/female ratio in Indian films. Gender enquality in films is worse than you can think. According to author Laham, “Women filled just 28.7 percent of these roles in films theatrically released during 2014. Which is way better numbers if you compare it to Indian films. According to TImes Magazine , an Indian magazine , stated that in Indian films woman filled just 10-12% of roles , from which 75% of thier scenes goes into sexually revealing clothes ...
The term “Digital Humanities” has always been elusive to me. It never had a clear, compact meaning. When I mention that I am a Digital Humanities major, I get a lot of “What is that?”s and I would usually have a hard time answering. Well, ladies and gentelmean, “that” is my major and I still wouldn’t know what it means. But after exploring the defintion of the term in depth in this course, I am finally able to give a coherent answer. Digital Humanites is the study of human interactions th...
August 22nd, the first day of Research Methods, we gathered into groups to discuss and present our own definitions of the term “digital humanities.” My group’s definition: “A combination of the disciplines of computing and learning concerned with human culture (esp. literature, history, art, music, film, philosophy, T.V., and others).” It is a solid definition that formed the foundation of reference for my understanding of the rest of the semester. By interpreting the digital humanitie...
Many college students go into college with the hopes of discovering new and vital information to help them pursue both a degree, and eventually a job in their selective field of expertise. In my case, I did learn a lot, but I didn’t find all the information presented to be applicable. I did find the shortened reading tool, the video analysis, and the research question formatting to be benificial. Overall, however, I don’t believe I gained a lot from taking this class other than a humanitie...
My, how the days have passed. Coming into this class, Research Methods in Digital Humanties, I did not fully know what to expect. I suppose I thought we would be conducting scads of literary research and writing papers. It’s actually what I’m most used to at the college level, and I was prepared to be unsurprised by the information taught in this class. After all, I’ve been doing lit reviews now for years. However, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how much I actually learne...
The world is an intriguing place and, day-to-day, I ask a lot of questions about various things I see. These questions aren’t necessarily well-formed research questions with developed notions of the question’s significance (that usually comes later after days of mulling over the question), but, at the very least, either a topic or a question (and sometimes both). For example, while reading Asimov, I’m liable to ask why he uses the word sardonic (and variations thereof) ...
The semester flew by. At the start of the semester, I didn’t even know that digital humanities existed. I just took this class because it was a 300-level humanities class.
December, snow, cold, finals, oh my god. It cannot be true, not yet. This semester was suppose to be my last hurray, I was suppose to do so good that I surprised myself. But as true for many people in my shoes, things didn’t go so well. And this especially applies to this class. You never know just how badly getting sick will affect your semester until it happens. After this semester, I will never wish getting pneumonia on anyone. Not only did it suck and hurt really bad, it made my ...
tl;dr; Digital humanities made my head hurt at first, but then it knocked my socks off.
Finals week is among us! It’s tough working on both the project and studying for finals, however, Amina and I have made some strides in figuring out the research that needed to be involved in order reach the bottom of our research question. We adjucsted our claim to ask: which presidential candidate uses more pessimism in their tweets?
This is my first semester being a graduate student - honestly this major has nothing to do what I learned from college - I was studying media and all I did those years was staying in the local TV station and do the backstage editing.Being a journalist has alwas become my dream. Technical Communication and Information Architecture, this major has brought me lots of challenges, I think I have tried so many things that I never thought I could try, and complished so many things that I didn’t t...
Coming into digital humanities, I knew close to nothing about the subject. The first few days, me, and the people around me scoured the internet to just even find the definition of digital humanities, and what is study. I could find the classical definition of digital humanities on google, but over the last few months, my definition of the subject has changed drastically. We learned how to take normal humanities, and run it through program after program to find hidden meaning that normal h...
It’s the end-of-the-semester and we know it…So what just happened? A lot of articles have been read, work has been completed, and plenty of blogs have posted not as seamlessly as one would hope. But unlike for R.E.M., it is not the end of the world, and I survived it.
This blog post like most of my finals comes to you in three parts for the last time.
“Why are you here [at college]? If not to discover new ways of looking at the world?” – Milo Yiannopoulos
“What is Digital Humanities?” – Everyone at Research Methods
Sometimes, when I’m feeling down, I pick up a pen or a paintbrush and process my feelings with art. Painting has helped me through some pretty dark times, so today I decided to try to paint with code. Processing is a language I’ve been wanting to experiment with for a while, and I just iterted on my first digital sketch with the language.
It’s over . . . it’s finally over.
After running into quite a few problems and not getting the data I was looking for I’m going to end up changing the project.
Sometimes programs and scripts don’t run the way you want them to. The language barrier between humans and computers is being axed down constantly (with the gracious help of StackOverflow), but alas, time is almost always against us.
Semester Reflection!
All that Bear and I are going to do today is use an online programming app to determine connotation in the tweets from Clinton and Trump. We need to start editing our video as well, and we will do so as soon as we finish with the online programming app we are dealing with today!
To recap, as of my last post, my desire to learn more about how Twitter users post about art and what art means hit a snag. My data fetch could only be performed once, and thus, all data that I currently have centers around a search for tweets using the hashtag #art on November 2nd.
This is the second and will be the final posts. This is a heavy study for me. Not only because I am an Asian and I’m not one of white people, but I have to face the problem that other races and ethinicties have the same unfair situation; and this kind of situation has been existing so long in the history, the unequalness has started since the American War of Independence. The more I dig into this study, the more heavy I feel - the whole history, not only in the job market, but also the une...
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started” – Mark Twain
This week’s update on the progress of my final project includes: my character list and my thoughts on what I’m seeing so far with it and an update on how my text analysis program is going.
Progress is being made by way of reshaping the analysis portion of my DH research project. Initially, I thought: How does internet usage bridge the digital divide in the South Korean Republic? While I am maintaining this question, it is an indication of the idea that internet usage has bridged the digital divide in South Korea. However, after careful consideration of a particular source (CNET), it appears that it works both ways.
WE ARE DONE
My final project is a replication study of a forthcoming paper by Libby Hemphill, et al. titled #Polar Scores: Measuring Partisanship Using Social Media Content. The paper uses CASM Lab’s purpletag repository to collect, parse, and analyze tweets from our congressional representatives’ official Twitter accounts. Members of congress are given a #polar score based on the liklihood that the hashtags they have used come from Democrats...
Salutations,
With every popular video or writing written, there always comes an overeaction of its contents, and we call this video analysis. This week, Amina and I chose to watch the video analysis of Taylor Swift’s hit song “Blank Space”. As always with this class, I learned something new. Not only that the gentleman in the beginning of the video drives a rare car from the 60s, but how to interpret videos and all the pieces that go into it.
In “The First Time,” Paul Booth studies Doctor Who fandom and specifically “what makes Doctor Who special for fans” in order to understand how a show gets a following.
RQ: What is the relationship between media and audience when it comes to homosexuality on television.
November 21st is the Monday before Thanksgiving and the day of the second RQ, argument, and data summary.
This post is based on the reading, Doctor Who Fan Pheonomena, Chapter 6
We have gotten all the preparation work for the project done. We have a list of ten old science fiction books and ten newer modern sci-fi books as well. The books that we were not able to get on gutenberg.org we will be getting over thanksgiving break when we could use a Wi-Fi that would allow us to use different ways of getting the files for the novels that we will be analyzing. Once we have all the books we will run them through the text analysis programs and analyze the data. If we feel...
Research Question
Who knew you learning lots of new technology would be involved in conducting a DIGITAL HUMANITIES Research Project? Not me, obviously.
For a few days this week I wasn’t sure if I could bring myself to finish this project and I considered starting over with a new research question. I kept thinking to myself that the events of early Wednesday morning provided all the evidence needed to show that tweeting about debates is pretty useless. I didn’t really feel up to reading through the tweets supporting the actions and rhetoric of a xenophobic, sexist, grabby, racist Cheeto, as I fear that the hopes expressed in these tweets p...
Okay, so as of my last post, my research question was: I am studying Twitter responses to the question “what is art” in order to understand how art impacts people’s daily lives so that there is a greater understanding of the public appreciation and perception of art. Potentially this research could assist curators and social media professionals at galleries and museums to develop methods of outreach, educational tools, and programming for their spaces.
For our final project, Bear and I are continuing our research on the presidential candidates’ campaigns. After compiling a week’s data of tweets manually from both Hillary and Trump over the course of a single week,we’ve seen how their tweets are similar and different based on whether they were bashing each other or building on themselves. However, our argument will not be comparing tweets from other elections. So we are arguing that the majority of tweets from each presidential candidate...
This past week, I have been researching more on text analysis in python in order to successfully process the star wars scripts, using word count as a basis for how much interaction each of the characters has.
So far I have focused on taking Jackson Pollock’s splatter art and deconstructing it down to its RGB components.
To most accurately evaluate how Lip’s upbringing has impacted how he makes (important) decisions in his life and how his social background effects that as well, we have decided to focus on the years that Lip attends college (Season 4-6). By creating a network, following Lip, in the episodes for seasons 4-6, we can follow how his social interactions and background shape what kind of person he is. To determine how those social interactions and backgrounds affect the decisions he makes, we...
How has the language, syntax, and grammar of science fiction novels changed overtime?
At this time I have been focusing on the book, I have decided to choose black people as the tartget race I want to focus on my study. In the book “Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace”, the author focued on the latina in the jobmarkets in the United States. The picture following is the data the author has collected in the book. ** Well… I don’t know how to upload a photo here, but it is on page 226 of the book… I took a photo by using my cellphone.
Currently, I am working on my Digital Humanities research project by considering ways in which to use gathered resources, as well as newly encountered ones, in a video artifact. Because I am familiar with video-editing software such as iMovie, my plan is to use gathered articles, journals, research papers, websites, as well as visual data, and commentate to explain my findings. I also plan to use various documentary/news footage to show the significance of this project in reality. In doin...
Carly Kocurek, one of the beloved professors ar our very own IIT, analyzes the effects of violence in video games have on the way society percieves the idea of violence and how society judges video games based on the violence found in them.
In “The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video Game Violence and the Legacy of Death Race,” Carly Kocurek studies the times and culture surrounding the 1976 arcade game Death Race in order to take a closer look at how gratuitous video game violence relates to “legitimized” media violence so that we can understand how moral panics like the one that surrounded Death Race drive production and normalization of violent content for entertainment.
The research question, argument, and data will be discussed about “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft” by Lisa Nakamura.
This post is based on the reading - article The Agony and the Exidy: A History of Video Game Violence and the Legacy of Death Race
The research project that I am conducting asks the question of: How does internet usage bridge the digital divide in the South Korean Republic? This is a significant question because it investigates a form of scholarly writing, as recommended by Professor Gregory C. Semenza, known as the “gap in scholarship.” This indicates that my specific research question has not been previously studied; at least not during enough occasions for it to have been thoroughly investigated.
This week I will be exploring the argument of Lisa Nakamura in her article Don’t Hate the Player Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft.
Claim: The video game/movie, Death Race, is a very violent game, and has a negative impact on society due to its suggestive themes.
You are . . . Machinima
In accordance with The Craft of Research Section III, here is the established argument for my DH research project:
My claim is that the three texts will have enough similarities to come to a conclusion that all three texts have the same core or fundamental message meaning that all the texts are of the same religion and that the only reason for differnces between the texts is the passing of the texts through corrupt leaders (monarchs and clergy) over time.
Within this post, I’ll detail my project’s argument according to the principles of rhetoric we’ve discussed in class / read about in The Craft of Research and then I’ll categorize my argument based on Semenza’s 6 types of arguments (see chapter 5).
Freedom to choose one’s own destiny is not always as free as it seems.
I might be changing my research project.
This week for my final project I made a lot of progress. The main areas I progressed in were with my research on programming for text analysis (digital) and with further clarifying what specifically my project is attempting to do (humanities).
Question: How has Lip’s upbringing effected the decisions he makes throughout the rest of his life?
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In this post, I will discuss my argument of my Final Research Project, based on the argument elements we have discussed in class, as well as Semenza’s 6 types of Arguments.
So this past week in class we talked about our research projects. We went over some different ways to do them, and I believe the approach that we were told most of us would be taking and is the one I am, is a pragmatic proposal. Our proposals are given, and we support them accordingly with our research and what it all means.
In our “revised final project” blog post, we discussed how we will be using text analysis to analyze past versus present science fiction books. Significant textual differences such as, positive versus negative words, frequency of novel-relevant words, text patterns, grammatical relationships, and more. The goal of this project is to yield impactful statistical data that will bring us to qualitatively analyze the differences and come up with insightful conclusions. Therefore our argument qu...
This post like shampoo that has three benefits but comes in one bottle, comes to you in three parts.
So the other day we went through what to do for making a strong question for our final project, and to do so we went through a series of questions that would help support what we are working on. Some of it was a bit confusing as to what each question is asking for according to how we broke it down. Confusing in the way that the second question is to support the first, and the third supports the second, but I can use the third and skip the second, so what do I do with my second question. An...
From reading chapter five of Gregory Semenza’s Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic career in the Humanities, the importance of the “seminar paper” was brought into light. For an individual to pursue a successful occupation within the field of Humanities, they must be knowledegable, in the declaration and procedure of publication.
This weak’s reading, Section III in The Craft of Research provides an accessible and concise introduction to rhetoric (in the Aristotelian sense of the word). This is a subject that’s been on my mind a lot, lately, primarily because so much of the discourse generated by this election cycle seems to be lacking of evidence and warrants (and sometimes even reasons) because and acknowledgeme...
Emma and I’s final project involves video analysis of the hit TV show Shameless (U.S edition). As a show that has taken Hollywood by storm, with its seemingly endless controversial topics, crude language, and borderline pornographic scenes, Shameless is a goldmine for analysis. Although not finalized yet, we have many ideas we are considering looking at. We are thinking of looking not just the characters in the show, but also ...
Why is choosing a topic so difficult?
It is the end of the world as we know it.
Completed Final Project Proposal The goal of my final project is to explore racial representation transitions throughout classic film. To do this, I will be analyzing the Star Wars movie series. This is important because representation, especially in media that has played a fundamental role in society and film, is important. People shape their ideas of others and off life from what they see and watch.
Our research question is, has the writing of science fiction changed over the years as both writing and science has evolved. Is this writing change, if any, visable in any type of syntax, grammar, or other forms of writing characteristics. We believe, that yes, it has, and that evolution of writing characteristics will be visible and be able to be displayed as a visual representation, to better understand its context.
This week we changed our final project idea. Instead of traking male and female talkers in class, we will be doing text analysis. At first we wanted to change our digital humanities project to something that involved robotics to utilize our team skills the best, but we’ve unfortunately realized we could never create a research topic that would both be reasonable to research and reasonable to create.
I always thought a lot of yelling was the best way to make an argument, turns out it’s not.
This post is based on the reading, Craft of Research, Part III: Making a claim and supporting it.
Professor: “What inspired you to do this project?” Student: “The due date” – Twitter:@CollegeStudent
Before this week, Matt and I pondered about utilizing our technical Engineering skills to apply to our Digital Humanities final project. Our initial plans was to involve robotics and data tracking into our project. This plan proved to be extremely limited as we could not come up with meaningful factors to track within the realm of Digital Humanities. Also, creating a robot ...
The thing that makes humans unique from animals, also securing our spots on top of the food chain, is our ability to communicate and coordinate with each other on a more complex scale. The CBS produced show “Zoo” creates a scenario in which the world starts to see the exponential development of the animal brain, so much in fact, that they are able to communicate between different species. In other words, humans are good at talking and socializing with each other. So by nature our species ...
Maddi and I have decided to work together on the final project for many reasons, but specifically because we both love the Showtime show Shameless. It is an easily relatable show taking place on the southside of Chicago and showing real life family issues such as mental illness, finances, and love.
In trying to figure out what I will discover through completing my reseach project, I decided to look online for studies or articles on similar studies. A lot of what I have found bases its conclusions on close readings of the three Abrahamic texts instead of the distant reading I plan on doing so maybe I will find differnt results or maybe the result I find will confirm or deny current thoughts on the subject.
As a Muslim, I find Abrahamic religious texts intriguing. As a Muslim, I also believe in the Torah and the Bible. The only difference betweeen these books and the Qur’an is that the books have been changed over time while the integrity and exact wording of the Qur’an has been maintained through oral tradition (memorizing the book cover to cover).
A proposed social network analysis of Twitter as it pertains to the 2016 presidential debates.
Wow. So I had a really difficult time choosing a topic for my final project.
What we’ve learned during past two weeks was the analize of time of speach for characters in different genders. This gave us an other kind of understood in films and tv shows. What we’ve learned previously was just the agjtive in different genders through lectures. This would be simpler to do through programs, but the problem is that it would be hard to analize materieals based on voice and graphies. It has provide several other demetions on analizing. For example, we can analize the story...
For my final project, I plan to make an infographic representing the changes in diversity over various seasons of Saturday Night Live. I chose this because I want to study if popular classic television shows are getting more or less diverse, this is important, because popular television has a strong influence on culture as a whole.
Not to brag, but social media is my jam. I’ve been called a “Social Media Guru” by my boss, but that’s probably because it’s my job. I’ve been Illinois Tech’s Social Media Intern for almost 2 years now and it’s definitely been eye-opening in the strategies to social media. I like social media because I’m a millenial and that’s essentially how I got the job in the first place. “Do you know how to post on Facebook?” “Yes.” “You’re hired!” Okay. That’s not how it happened, but that’s how it f...
For the final project we will be working in a group of two. My partner will be Julian Escasa. Our final project is subject to change as to better utilize our skills with another research question.
What is the final topic to write about? And how do I write about it.
I already did a post on final project ideas but it was not in the correct format with a topic, question, and significance.
For our final project, Amina and I chose to test an experiment using the presidential candidates’ twitters and determining the bash/cristicism compared to self build up ratio. With this information, we are going to create a video, dipicting the ratios and analyzing the meaning of our data at the end of the video.
This post like Tina, Gene, and Louise comes to you in three parts.
After elaborating on the topics introduced in my research project ideas list (Sept. 19th), I have decided to conduct my Digital Humanities research project by asking the following question: How does Internet usage impact the digital divide in South Korea? Because South Korea is famous for having the fastest average internet speed per capita, it is an especially intriguing country to research further on. In a recent United Nations e-government survey, using the E–Government Development Ind...
I still being a little confused with the final project, but there’s what I thought I want to do for the final project. Since we are allowed to work in groups, I’m willing to work with people who are interested in this topic.
This post is about what I thought after watchig the movie Supergirl in the class. ## What we did during the class while we were watching Supergirl? I was using the GenderTimer to record the time whenever female characters spoke. Although I didn’t record any of men speaks’ time, I did realize that female characters talked much longer OR had many more chances to talk comparing with men characters. You may say, the movie is called “Supergirl”, there is no wonder why female characters speak m...
In class last week, we watched part of the first episode of Supergirl. Watching this show, and watching the other show from the previous week was completely different. Besides the fact that I personally liked Supergirl better, I would definitely say that it revolves more around female characters than it does around male characters. I didn’t get to finish the episode, but overall, I’d say that it focuses more on females, for a change! The main character is a woman, and a lot of the characte...
Once again, female superheros are under-rated and over-looked.
This post will cover the data I collected in class last week while watching the pilot episode of Supergirl.
This week in Digital Humanities class we measured the speaking time for female characters, in comparison to male characters for the show Supergirl. Since we determined that everyone timing everything at once was too difficult (after crashing and burning within 20 seconds of the show starting) we broke the task up into parts. Some of my classmates were assigned the task of recording male speaking times, others were assigned the task of recording female speaking times. I personally,...
This is a make up post, I just realized I didn’t post the blog last week.
After analyzing a whopping 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, and 4 million lines (not by me but from the research of Hanah Anderson & Matt Daniels), conclusions about sexism in cinema could be made with much greater confidence. Prior to gathering serious data, it was known that “white men dominate movie roles” (“The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever.” ). Through conducting the “…largest undertaking of script analysis, ever” (“The Largest Analysis…” ), the collected data r...
You don’t really realize how gender biased the media you consume is until you measure it; or, at least, that’s how it was with me. I guess I’m so used to the things I read and the things I watch being filled with males in all the important roles, I don’t really notice it anymore. But watching Supergirl really opened my eyes to what a show with lots of females in most of the head positions looked and felt like. The show is definitely more balanced gender-wise than many of the other shows th...
This week in class, the show ‘Supergirl’ was analyzed by taking a look at the ratio of men to women speaking.
“What do you think is so bad about girl? I’m a girl, and your boss, and powerful, and rich, and hot, and smart.”
–Cat, Supergirl Pilot (2015)
The above quote is proclaimed by Cat Grant the CEO of CatCo Worldwide media. In the quote, she asserts the dominance of women or “girls” by using her highly renowned reputation and boastful attitude to set an example of why being a girl is not so “bad”. This blog will discuss the in-class analysis of t...
In class this week we analyzed Supergirl. This felt to me like the first time I engaged in a digital humanities research topic. The class was split up into multiple groups, with each group having their own objective. One group was to analyze how much a man was talking in the pilot episode, and another group timed the amount of time a woman was talking in the same episode. To do this we used an app called gender timer. The other groups were designated to use excel and time stamps to record ...
Per assigned, I decided to read an article on “The Verge”, and let me tell you, it was downright startling on the basis of how ethnicities are misrepresented in film production. According to the article, a test called “Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in [Mainstream Film Title]” is a new Tumblr project by Welcome to Night Vale’s Dylan Marron. This project is similar to the Bechdel Test, which is meant to gauge gender representation in movies.
Welcome Back,
And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for…the final project, where videos and power points know no bounds.
The past few weeks have been interesting in class, don’t get me wrong! But it was definitely entertaining to watch a show on Netflix in class! Just hearing the title, I thought that it would be a boring fairy tale show, but it turned out to be the opposite. It was entertaining throughout and it kept me on my feet to see what would happen next. It was hard to keep track of interactions because I was too focused on enjoying the show. (I might even start watching it now in my free time!) In ...
Representation of females in media is skewed. I mean, seriously! Do authors and producers just sit down and absorb all the absurd notions and “ideals” surroundung the idea of the “perfect” female and build their female characters around that?
My first introduction to network theory was in a sociology course I took as a junior in high school. We read Granovetter’s landmark paper on weak ties. While I found Granovetter’s writing to me far more accessible than that of other sociologists of his day, I found the subject matter quite dull (a sentiment that has significantly changed over the years). Using television and film as an introduction t...
This week, in my exploration of Digital Humanities Research. I was given the opportunity to map character interactions in Once Upon a Time. My first, thoughts on this was that it was time consuming, and I did not understand the point. My mindset on this was soon changed as I reviewed my notes. I discovered more about the importance of this after I read the reading. Reviewing my character interaction notes, I could see how well the underlying themes and relationships could be outlined just ...
Throughout the assignment on Monday and Wednesday, I consistently found myself forgetting to take notes and just enjoying the show. It was a very interesting tie between modern times and fantasy-like stories. This show is similar to the movie, The Fountain, where there is an uncertain tie between characters in the past and characters in the present.
Once Upon A Time is the story of modern life and fairy tales colliding. But just like in every fairy tale story, it still has the basic fundamental elements of a fairy tale. Royalty vs. poverty, magic and enchantment, and most obviously good vs. evil. Thats where the communities within the TV series begin to form.
After watching the beginning scenes from Once Upon a Time and gathering social network analysis data, hidden trends could be observed. From the directional and undirectional techniques demonstrated in class, it was decided that the collected data would be split into two unique perspectives: speaking and affiliation. Speaking was categorized as directional, in that the relation between characters could be observed as being multi-directional. On the other hand, affiliation was classifed und...
Welcome all,
In the readings for last Monday, there were two movie analysis methods.
“It’s a low bar, but many good movies don’t pass [the Bechdel Test]. Birdman fails. Avatar fails. Fucking Toy Story fails.” –Daniels & Anderson, 2016
When talking about social networks in general, one rarely considers the sheer number of times they are with certain people. Sure, we can probably count the extremes, “I’ve only met my boyfriend’s parents once” or “I’ve seen my boss every weekday for the last 6 months,” but generally our day-to-day encounters with others are innumerable.
In class we watched two pilots for tv series, one was called Once Upon a Time, and the other was Supergirl. For me personally, I have never been a big fan of tv shows, especially DC ones. (Sorry, I am a Marvel fan) I have always preferred movie better than shows. They take less of a time commitment and they can usually have a higher budget which in turns leads to higher production quality.
My favorite movies in the recent years has always been Marvel movies. When I first saw Iron M...
This post like my brain during midterms comes to you in three brief parts.
The peer review with my Digital Humanities class last week clarified a few things for me. First, I didn’t really know how a blog works. And second, I STILL don’t really know what digital humanities is. I wrote an introduction in my second post about digital humanities as an aspect of the scholarly world, but I now see that it exists outside of the classroom.
Hello fellow bloggers! Well this week was a pretty chill week in Humanities class! We had some “fun” learning about text analysis and how to read through longer texts as quickly as possible. Doing that demo in class on how to write a program that can do word analysis was pretty scary though. I was so lost, and I had no idea what we were doing. However, that was probably one of the most interesting things I’ve experienced so far in the class, and pretty useful as well. It might seem imposs...
I don’t know about the rest of the class, but I’ve started to become brain dead. I read the readings and I actively listen in class, but I still feel like I am not absorbing anything. Maybe it’s senioritis or maybe I’m not as good of a reader that I thought I was. To be honest, I am so excited to watch something in class instead of only reading. Hopefully my years of watching television has prepared me for greatness.
You may remember this set from the Park, Oh, Jo text from this week.
I don’t know who let the python into the class room, and I do not know what to do about it. And what is it doing analyzing Sherlock Holmes? Watson, a little help here?
We all know about social networks - when you use your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other social apps on your electronic devices trying to connect with other people, you are “social networking”. But today here, we are going to discuss some social networks in the movie, or in the TV shows.
When I was picking a major for college, I was split between engineering and computer science. Mostly because I don’t think I would be able get a job with a history degree.
After exploring the readings posted on the schedule, I have discovered the various methods in which a film can be analyzed. The various methods include character-net construction and community clustering. Although each are very intricate, they permit a better understanding of the film being presented.
The tools used to examine modern motion pictures are changing. Rather than relying on the traditional audiovisual approach, the contemporary method is known as social network analysis. “With the idea of social network analysis, we propose a novel way to analyze movie videos from the perspective of social re-lationships rather than audiovisual features”(Weng, Chu, & Wu, 256). This indicates that the technique of audiovisual analysis is gradually being replaced by a more sophisticated o...
Digitial Humanities is a realtively new term that has come to light largely due to this generations advancements in technology and social media. The term “Digial Humanities” is a very broad term that encompasses many topics.
One example that comes to mind when I think of Digital Humanities is, today you’ll notice that physical newspapers are in real danger of going out of business unless they can (or have already) make the transition to online news, which is constantly...
“My goals for the course are to introduce students to research in digital humanities through a variety of case studies, hands on labs, and readings of transmedia projects.” - Hemphill, 2014
! Guido van Rossum For those of you who don’t know who Guido van Rossum is, he is the sole genius behind Python! (to be honest, I didn’t know that either, but Google did!).
Apparently we can teach computers how to read now.
Many people question why I program. They ask since I am not CS or ITM, why do I code. Truthfully, why don’t you?
There is technology all around us. Everyone has heard this sentence about a thousand times. This is not a new idea, we have known this simple fact for the past few decades. Though its importance on our daily life is growing everyday. As we progress with technology more and more, we find more uses for it. One of the those uses is using code to help in the study of humanities. Languages like Python or Java can be extremely helpful to study things that would have been to complex long ago. For...
Research Methods in Digital Humanities is a diverse class of various majors. Some of the students are humanities majors but others are not.
Of all the topics discussed in this past Thursday’s class that we discussed, the most helpful had to be the format of how to quick read a longer text. With this technique, we discovered simple and efficient tips to get through a text with a barebone understanding on the overall passage or book.
An examination of how well a blended last name (a real last name comprised of two seperate last names) stands up to the rules up making a good ship name. Some of the actors invovled in creating a good ship name are relevent to creating a real blended name, but other factors can be overlooked and at least one factor should be overlooked.
Stereotyping!
Sexism. Harry Potter. Why would anyone ever think that these two words have something in common? Well turns out that the book series(aswell as the movies) are pretty damn good at making the female characters inferior to the guys. I personally have only seen 2 of the movies, when I was 12, and haven’t read any of the books. So the little knowledge I have of the series didn’t yell to me “SEXIST”.
I was one of the many children who grew up with Harry Potter. I began reading the books after my older sister brought them to our household. And since then, Harry Potter and all the characters represented in the series were very dear to my heart. My sister ended up expressing her love through writing Fan fiction that actually got lots of reads. And I became obsessed with Pottermore (Beta version from nearly 4 years ago). I looked up to people like Hermione and Luna Lovegood (10 points to R...
There are varied different races in the Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling had made it very clear - but are different races and sexes really matters that much in the series? Kayhan Nejad, a PhD student who studies the dissertation on Russo-Iranian relations in the nineteenth-century Caucasus at Yale, has mentioned in his article, “Literal and Metaphorical: Racial Themes in Harry Potter” said that “In appearance, the world of Harry Potter is “color-blind,” and race is neither acknowledged nor rele...
This post like the Seventh Harry Potter movie, comes to two you in parts.
As a generation that always has something to complain about and takes everything to the next level, it’s no surprise that one of the greatest and most popular book series in world would get mixed up in the cross fire. As of late the topic of discussion is Feminism. As a woman myself I do believe that some people are gender bias, however, I don’t think J.K. Rowling is one of those people. However, Elizabeth Heilman and Trevor Donaldson point out in their chapter on gender in the Harry Pott...
Although there is a “Humannity” in the name of this class, it is different from most of the other humanity classes I’ve toke. We learned about ship names like tumblr, but the perpose of it is not to learn the meaning of the ship names nor to know where do these names come from. Instead, we are learning the way to find out these answer throwgh data analizing. The porpose of thes course is to learn how to analize literals as data. An other thing which suprised me is when visalize the poems, ...
Currently, I am deciding between these topics for my DH research project:
To be honest, I have not done the readings for this class for today (09-19). I know that we don’t necessarily have to talk about the readings in these blog posts, but that is what I like to do and I have not been able to meet my standard. Unfortunatly, this weekend I found out my best friend, Tom, was admitted (and now released) into a psych ward. He had been in a bi-polar mania for weeks without knowing it and thank goodness his parents happened to visit him and find him in this mess. I’v...
Many times when we are analyzing literature, it can be helpful to get a graphical representation of that model. Whether we have a computer program count the amount of times a word appears, or graphing the amount of words in each sentence, or sentences in each paragraph. These visualizations give us a new look at something that used to seem familiar. Looking at a piece of literature graphically was a hard idea to grasp, and for a while took me a lot of time to understand. We analyzed a pape...
As digital humanities include the analysis of text, it is interesting to see the methods of analysis on the text given to undergraduates.
Children’s books are often taken very lightly. They are often filled with magic and wonder. This is probably why I’ve never really thought of the implications that the word usage and composition of Harry Potter could have on children. In Representations of Gender and Agency in the Harry Potter Series, Sally Hunt uses methods of text analysis to observe instances of gender inequality in the novels. In her studies she explores the imbalance in the use of words representing boys, whi...
“The way in which we come to know ourselves in literary work is not embedded in the work, but rather emerges from our own interaction with the work. It is in this interactive process, manifested in the feeling of being lost, that the reader of the novel is sometimes able to find feelings, ideas, possible worlds that he did not have prior to the reading.” – Sumara (1992/1999)
One of the most surprising things about Representations of Gender in the Harry Potter Series by Elizabeth E. Heilman and Trevor Donaldson was my reaction to it. After reading the authors’ initial disclaimers about what it means to read something like literature through a critical lens, I expected to be prepared for the critique of one of my favorite series of novels. I was mistaken.
This post is a late work for week 3’s blog. I didn’t know what to write last week because I wasn’t sure about the homework topics, but now, here it goes.
###Is that you, Harry Potter?
Stephen Ramsay’s discussion of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves addresses the topic of subjectivity in her novel. He does this to understand an alternative method of criticism, in rooting out Woolf’s subjective elements from her objective discourse. In this approach, Ramsay utilizes algorithmic text analysis to conduct this separation.
As a lover of fandoms, this article was particularly exciting to read. I’ve never even thoguht about how we naturally smush names together for couples. For me, it seems like something that has existed forever, but after further reading, I understand there are many key parts to a great ship name. The main 5 aspects of a successful ship name include overlap, stress match, onset conservation, orthographic transparency, and lexical neighborhood evaluation. This seems way more complicated then ...
Linguistics has always been a fascinating subject to me. From the sounds of old words to the formation of new words, the English language in particular and Germanic and Latin languages in general are both challenging and interesting. One of our readings this week, A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Shipping discusses a published paper by Cara DiGirolamo that explains her research on what it means whe...
Digital humanities is a relatively unknown profession, despite it’s relatively to everyday activities. It was invented in the late 1940s by Roberto Busa who produced an automic grant into a church using a computer program. Since then, digital humanities has spread all across the world, including applications such as google and yahoo. One question that might arise, however, is how to do it.
Grammar of Shipping!
A blog post about computational text analysis.
Digital Humanities can point both to a founder and to a moment of creation. The founding moment of creation for Roberto Busa was the radically transformation, reordered, disassembled and reassembled version of one of the world’s most influential philosophies.
Digital Humanities collaborates with mathematics to conduct the process of algorithmic text analysis. It does so in order to be capable of understanding the hidden elements of a given text. This is achieved via the implementation of mathematics, to obtain new evidence for sophisticated argumentation. Using algorithms, literature can be observed through an entirely different lens. Breaking down text components and unveiling patterns allows for the discovery of evidence, that which may be u...
Digital Humanities is the study of Humanities using digital media. It is a very broad definition, that encapsulates many topics. So what do I want to get out of it, and what am I attempting to learn in the class? In the first two weeks of class, I have noticed many coders in the room, including the professor. Being an engineering major, my knowledge of coding is limited, though I have dabbled in the arduino SDK. I’ve noticed the clever ways that a lot of the coders were able to use code to...
“What do you do with a million books?” –Gregory Crane, 2006
This post like a lucky three leaf clover comes to you in three parts.
Much of the literature I have read so far for digital humanities has emphasized the idea that digital humanities destroys the barrier between natural sciences and social sciences. This seems like an exciting and simple enough statement, but one thing I have found interesting is that the reality is, the juxtaposition illuminates some distinct differences and issues. It also brings to light the limitations and possibilities of the software involved in these science studies.
Ever thought about how search queries brought the most relevant results to the top? Me neither. But learning about how it works is still very very cool.
Digital Humanities is an ambiguous and often deceiving term that aims to explain how the study of humanities has evolved through the 20th and 21st century.
As Professor Hemphill has pointed out, digital humanities is not merely the execution of using digital tools to study humanities. There are various ways of looking at this discipline and it is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that digital humanities is a fairly new way of researching and understanding our society and “huma...
This time last year, I didn’t know Digital Humanities was even a thing. In retrospect it makes a lot of sense that as technology becomes ubiquitous throughout society, people are going to want to study how and why it does. And now that I know the field exists, I am trying to learn how and why Digital Humanists study what they do, and what it can tell us about humanity in the 21st century.
History and research methods have been changing drastically, especially since the start of the industrial revolution when data and information became more readily avaliable. Digital humanities arose when research could be accesible through digital screens such as desktops and telivisions, but defining digital humanities is not quite so simple.
Digital Humanities is an ambiguous and often deceiving term that aims to explain how the study of humanities has evolved through the 20th and 21st century.
As Professor Hemphill has pointed out, digital humanities is not merely the execution of using digital tools to study humanities. There are various ways of looking at this discipline and it is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that digital humanities is a fairly new way of researching and understanding our society and “huma...
###So, how do computer change textual analysis?
In the attempt to introduce oneself to the subject of Digital Humanities, it is essential to understand that DH is the fusion of the collective human culture, and computing technologies. Examples of this combination are found in the study of infographics, data analysis, pure research, applied research, etc. Why are the digital humanities important? Because being fluent and skilled in computer technologies is becoming the standard requirement for success in the modern workforce. Whether ...
Honestly, I am still trying to understand digital humanities. I can’t even decide whether or not I should capitalize it. But as research has taught me, my definition can change and develop over time. So as of now, my understanding of digital humanities is the addressing and collaboration of media, literature, history, art and anything else under the humanities umbrella through digital tools and mediums (Burdick).
Source: Burdick, A. (2012). Digital Humanities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Pr...
What are the digital humanities?
What is digital humanities?
This post like my broken pencil, comes to you in two parts.
I entered into classroom on the first day for Humanities Research Methods with no idea of what to expect. Then, I heard the phrase “digital humanities” and…honestly, was not any less confused. It took me some time, some reading, pondering, and researching to truly understand what digital humanities is and why it matters. The Digital_Humanities book describes digital humanities as the encounter between traditional humanities and computational methods. This encounter causes a variet...
Previously on this blog I have covered my goals and intent and made an attempt to describe what the blog would cover and provide a definition of digital humanities research.
For this weeks discussion I will address the process of how we attain digital information. When you type a key word or phrase in to the Google - or Bing if you are some kind of weirdo but to each their own - search box it returns several million relevant hits but this number is significantly less than the to...
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Greetings Traveler.
Salutations
This post is aiming at answering the question below.
Digital humanities is an academic field of study that, as implied in the name, uses digital tools to understand and apply the various classical humanities disciplines: philosophy, art, literature, linguistics and others.
I have no idea what I am doing or if this will work. If so hip hip horray!
Which research methods do you most want to learn?
Hello, I’m Dominik and I’m a mechanical engineering major. I haven’t done much writing these past couple years, but hopefully my writing will improve over the year.
Hello, my fellow bloggers! I hope I’m doing this right, but I mean, it’s my first entry so it won’t be perfect that’s for sure! Well, I’ll be honest, I registered for this class because I needed a humanities credit, and it fit into my schedule perfectly. However, when I first saw the topic I was intrigued. I had no idea what it meant by “Digital Humanities”, so it was definitely my first time hearing the two words be put together. I joined last minute, hurrying to find a Humanities class...
So seriously, what is research? I feel that this question can be answered so easily, yet, can it?
Welcome All,
1. Which research methods do you most want to learn? I most want to learn the research method of writing for the reader, which I read about in The Craft of Research by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb and Joseph Williams. In this book they wrote that “Writing for others demands more from you than writing for yourself” I think it would be incredibly helpful to be able to view my research objectively. This would help me to better edit by thinking of my research as aco...
I think the most important part of research is asking the right questions. A correctly-worded question can incite creative ways to finding answers.
1.) Which research methods do you most want to learn? I am interested in expanding my ability as a writer. I would like to study research methods about presenting arguments, whilst also connecting to the reader. I feel as though most students come out of high school knowing how to generally present an argument on paper, however the argument is presented in a formulaic way, making every paper sound similar. I would like to learn how to write argumentative papers in a more “free” style that ...
The research methods that I am interested in exploring further are firstly data visualization because I am interested in how information is presented through various mediums and how data can be made more accessible and available to more people while making it interesting enough so that people will want to understand what you are trying to convey. Another research method I am interested in is digital publishing as our society becomes more on technology driven, it becomes second nature to e...
This post answers questions posed to students in a blog post by Professor Hemphill,.
There are several methods of research that interest me as a digital humanist. However, my background is in critical analysis of fine arts, and thus digital media analysis is naturally the most intriguing to me. I wonder if one must go through the same processes to analyze digital versus material content, or if there are new lenses to observe digital media through that I have yet to discover or understand. And I am eager to learn more about how to conduct research through digital media an...
I have been expressing myself visually with paints and pens and pencils my entire life, but I have yet to make a computer generate something visually stunning. I’m eager to learn how to design and implement data visualizations. I have also studied different cultures using ‘analog’ methods, and want to become proficient in the digital methods of cultural analytics, aggregation, and data mining. My Computer Science studies introduced me to writing code, but producing code for Read More
This post is the first blog of Meiqi, aim at answering [the question from Dr. Hemphill]
(https://libbyh.github.io/methods-f16/first-things-first/). Even though this is posted super late, this is what I had written down for the post, back in the beginnings… Note: I do apologize if my post mirrors Rachel’s.
I’m, like others from class, lost as to what the
format for this should be. Welcome to your blog, HUM 380 and COM 601 class! This is gonna be awesome. Before class on Monday, Aug 29, you should Introduction to Digital Humanities!Meiqi's blog post 1
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Intro? Digital Everywhere!
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