The importance of public art in American culture cannot be underestimated. It resides in public spaces as occasionally benign, sometimes celebrated, and at other times, downright inflammatory. Public art has the power to bring communities together and also has the power to divide them. It has the power to suspend moments in time and cementContinue reading “Creating Collective Memory: Athletes, Commemoration, and Public Statuary”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
Honeymooning: A Sentimental Journey
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”
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”
Saving Susiana Capstone-Update
With the semester coming to a close, my Saving Susiana digital project is off to a great start. While I began the semester with grand idealism, practical constraints relating both to my associated qualifying paper and issues of audience of the project forced me time and time again to shift gears and re-evaluate what IContinue reading “Saving Susiana Capstone-Update”
Digital tools for responding to writing: A Review
Google Docs and Microsoft Office365 offer a variety of tools and features for collaborative writing and revision. However, my experience with them has felt lacking. I’ve found they fall short of the goal of inviting robust conversation around a piece of writing, where multiple reviewers can interact with the text, the writer, and each other.Continue reading “Digital tools for responding to writing: A Review”
Introducing the Summer 2019 Studio Fellows
The University of Iowa Graduate College and the UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio are excited to announce that 14 graduate students have been selected for the 2019 Studio Summer Fellowship program. These individuals will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as training in skillsContinue reading “Introducing the Summer 2019 Studio Fellows”
I Am _____: Digital Humanities Meets Digital Photography
As I mentioned in my first post, my DH capstone project is a little different than most. In a few months, I will run a weeklong summer camp, in partnership with the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IWYP). Participants—all of whom will be young women—will talk about body image, explore the function of photography as anContinue reading “I Am _____: Digital Humanities Meets Digital Photography”
Revising in a Digital Space
Two semesters ago, I had the opportunity to co-teach a course in the College of Education with my advisor and another graduate student. This course, Approaches to Teaching Writing, is designed to give foundation and practical knowledge and praxis to students who might be teaching writing in their future. Most of our students were aimingContinue reading “Revising in a Digital Space”