“Do you have a food blog?” As a scholar studying the intersections of food and digital media, I’ve been asked this question many times. In addition to signalling genuine interest in my research, the question might also imply that blogging …
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Plagues of the Past and Present
For the final visualization of my residency, I constructed a NextStrain Narrative Exhibit. This digital display weaves together geospatial information, genetic data, and interpretative text to explore the history of the infectious disease “The Plague”.
Tagged with: data science, digital storytelling, disease, epidemiology, exhibit, genetics, Geospatial
Constructing a Digital Disease Exhibit
In my last residency update, I discussed two major goals: Reconstructing the spread of a historically important disease (the Plague!), and Creating a digital exhibit combining interactive visuals with narrative text. I’m pleased to say that I have a working …
Tagged with: data science, digital storytelling, disease, epidemiology, exhibit, genetics, Geospatial, phylogeny
Digital Demography: Reflections on a tabular data method(ology)
Hello! Last time round, I talked about my Sherman Centre research project into the annual Saveur food blog awards, where I track the demographic data of recognized food bloggers to determine if/how the Awards promote the digital food work of underrepresented …
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Loanwords in written Arabic online
Over the last 70 years, the history of the Palestinian Arabic dialect has presented a rare natural experiment because it had extensive contact with Hebrew. Presently, a distance of a few kilometers between two locations in Israel, the West Bank …
Why is it so hard to get data?
Why is it so hard to get data, when data is everywhere? We live in the Golden Age of the Internet, with millions of web-pages instantly accessible to provide a steady stream of services and entertainment. Not only has this …
Thinking Big, starting small.
Everyone knows that the Renaissance was a period of cultural rebirth. It gave us the printing press. It heralded the beginning of the Enlightenment. It was the time of literary greats like Shakespeare! Donne! and Milton! But did you know …
The Internet Blackout Tracker (IBT): Who is Disconnected?
August 4th, 2016, it was the night before a scheduled protest in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and I was warned by neighbours to stay in-doors due to potential violence. The following morning, I noticed that my WhatsApp and overall Internet connection …
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Tagged with: Censorship, data visualization, graduate resident, Human Rights, Internet Blackouts, research process
“All the technical stuff”: Looking differently at solitary study
Greetings! First things first: after studying food blogs for almost five years now, I find it difficult to compose a public-facing textual greeting without thinking of the bloggers I study. Someone like Sarah B. of the popular blog My New …
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HASTAC Scholars @ Sherman
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Montague (Sherman Postdoctoral Fellow), and Katherine Eaton (Sherman Graduate Resident, Department of Anthropology) on being named HASTAC Scholars for 2019-2021. The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) brings together outstanding graduate and …
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Made possible by a generous gift from the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Foundation.