As a summer fellow at the Studio, I am researching honeymoon narratives and building a repository of images, film stills and other media chronicling the practice of honeymooning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection is intended to serve as research, concept development and material acquisition for a film about honeymoon films.Continue reading “Honeymooning: A Sentimental Journey”
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Visualizing US Social Safety Net Benefits: The Learning Curve
Social safety nets consist of several programs that help maintain the wellbeing of society members and protect people during times of hardship. The US social safety net gives individual states a lot of autonomy in administering safety net programs. This leads to considerable variation in the level and breadth of assistance provided in one stateContinue reading “Visualizing US Social Safety Net Benefits: The Learning Curve”
The Networks of Online Groups
Project background: Participation in voluntary associations is vital for a healthy democracy. With most research focusing on the conventional associations, e.g. labor unions or sports groups, the recent popularization of online social groups, e.g. Facebook and Meetup groups, calls for more investigation of the newer forms of associations. Online social groups ease and transform meansContinue reading “The Networks of Online Groups”
Discovering the Difficulties of Online Teaching
The project I am working on this summer is developing instructional content to share along with my DMA thesis recording project, “New Works for Trumpet and Interactive Electronics”. This project will also include developing a platform to share the instructional content and recordings digitally. I decided to begin my work in the studio this summerContinue reading “Discovering the Difficulties of Online Teaching”