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 …
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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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Documenting the Research Process: Keeping Track of Higher-Order Concerns
In a digital humanities project, the most important task is the one that is also the easiest to neglect: the documentation of the research process. Documenting the process is important because it preserves the hard-won insights, trials, and most importantly, …
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Tagged with: applications, documentation, graduate resident, higher-order concerns, research process
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