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Blog Post 10

Drucker’s argument about direct address of data visualization applies to call kinds visualizations such whether they be graphic, numeric, network, etc. Any form of communications that involve speaking or being spoken about are consider visualizations that can be consider evidence of direct address and is consider enunciations (Drucker 904). By considering every visualization as a…

Blog Post 9

Coding the twitter data with BAN was a helpful way to understand how to analyze the twitter data and as well as understanding how to analyze data that uses less popular hashtags. It allows you to break down each aspect so you can better understand the data and how it can be used. When looking…

Blog Post 8

What are the differences in learning curves and feasibility between MyMaps and GIS-based maps we see in some of the linked projects? What are the affordances and limitations of an approach like our MyMaps vs. the visualization we see in a project like Native Land or Mapping Inequality? What does it mean to be decolonial…

Blog Post #7

Creating the graffiti art archive was an interesting concept. It was quite accessible, meaning if gives those who are in power or not in power, or even those that are not exactly tech savvy the ability to make an archive that they would like on a subject. This archive really allowed me to see how…

Blog Post #6

The power of rhetoric is seen when selecting what kind of project that you would like to create. This is an important aspect as the selection process decides what is consider significant and historically important. As we see, those who control the archives or have power of the archives, generally get the say of what…

Blog Post #5

The types of texts and methods for doing historical research and scholarship have changed over time and in relation to technology is that now they are looking at texts that have to deal with the underrepresented minorities groups such as African Americans and immigrants. They used “large, open datasets and massive text mining experiments” to…

Blog Post 3

Although human reading (close) and computer (distant) reading are two different methods to understanding a text, they do have similarities. Both methods want to do a deep analysis of the text to better understand what the text is about and what kind of messages that the texts is trying to portray. Both methods also want…

Blog Post 2

The making of digital projects and what projects get made figure into D’Agnozzio and Klein’s discussion of power as those that have all of the power are the ones who get to decide which projects are made and how they get made. Those that have power (generally white, male, and straight) are the ones that…

Blog Post #1

A Digital Humanities approach extends or complicates conventional humanities research and practice as digital humanities can be practiced with others, acting as a group effort while conventional humanities is more individual (Cohen). Digital Humanities requires a group or community of professors and experts as opposed to traditional humanities where it is generally one professor or…


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