Audience Chart
Our audiences for our multiple projects and events for the thesis colloquium are quite varied, but overlap in many areas. We visualized this using Gliffy to create a graphic representation of who we believe constitutes our audience. *Kerishma was left out of the bubble with the members of the class. This was Kerishma’s mistake.
Digital Project Update
I have decided for the digital portion of my thesis to do a mapping project–location and travel are a huge part of the novels, and I would like to track the movement of the women I examine in my paper. Obviously, this project demands that I pay close attention to detail, so for now, I’m […]
Past Digital Thesis: Ellen White’s Benevolent Millennialism
The completed digital thesis project that I looked at was “Ellen White’s Benevolent Millennialism” by Kaitlyn O’Hagan. The chief visual element used on the website is an interactive digital timeline that provides historical context to Ellen White’s life, as well as her own achievements. Another visual element that is incorporated is a wordle.net word cloud, which […]
McKinney Response
Something that I was stuck on in McKinney’s post is his mention of Marxist theory early on in the post. In the 19th century, when Marx was writing and theorizing, labor was quite clearly defined; in this day and age that includes the digital world, what exactly constitutes “labor”? McKinney, of course, moves on to […]
Digital Project Proposal
Deciding what I want to do for the digital presentation component of my thesis project has been a bit difficult for me—I really want to engage with the visual nature of the assignment, and coming up with something interactive and engaging has been a bit of a struggle. After receiving (very helpful and constructive!) feedback […]
Comparing Visual Projects
The two projects I compared were “Anna Karenina,” a literature-based project by Lev Manovich, and “filmhistory.viz,” a film-based project. Though the subject matter of each project is different–the first is a computer-generated visualization of the full text of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and the latter is a series of charts and graphs mapping the lengths and shot […]
Remember the Words: Repetition, Textual Analysis, and ASOIAF
Reading Ben Blatt’s textual analysis of The Hunger Games, I was immediately reminded of the opening lines of a piece Kurt Vonnegut wrote in 1966 about the Random House English Dictionary: “I wonder now what Ernest Hemingway’s dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that everybody can spell and truly understand.” Hemingway, […]
How Internet Rambling Made My Thesis
Like my lovely colleagues, I find it difficult at times to stay focused purely on the subject at hand. Much of my time spent “researching” on the Internet is spent tumbling down a rabbit hole of Netflix, tumblr, various message board forums, and other, shall we say, “distraction” websites. I tend to try and justify […]
The Process of Tinkering and the Study of English
Jentery Sayers’ “Tinker-Centric Pedagogy in Literature and Language Classrooms” discusses the method of “tinkering” in the teaching and learning of English literature. Sayers argues that tinkering, a method used originally by engineers and computer scientists, can be applied to the researching, reading, and writing processes of students of language and literature in this digital age. […]
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