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No, You Still Can’t Come to the Cookout: Blurred Lines of Race Humor in Digital Media
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation examines the circulation of racist humor within the Internet, one that continues offline patterns of racist expressions.
Better Practices for Making a Digital Monograph
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the practical work of digital scholarship and the considerations necessary for scholars interested in composing or evaluating digital scholarship.
Collaboration, Creativity and Collections: Historical Preservation for Alabama Communities.
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses two traveling postcard exhibits, physical and digital, created by Troy University Libraries and Troy University's International Center for Collaboration and Creativity (iC3).
Advocates for Disability Rights: Building the Texas Disability History Collection
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation provides an overview of the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries' Texas Disability History Collection.
Towards a Groszian Understanding of Bodies in Videogames
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses how feminist media scholar Elizabeth Grosz's extensive vocabulary on bodies can be used to reconstitute how bodies are perceived and created in modern triple-A videogame production.
All the News That's Fit to Mine: Text Mining and Topic Modeling Newspaper Usage in Scholarly Literature
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the use of the JSTOR Data for Research (DfR) tool to examine the occurrence of newspapers in scholarly literature and analyze the disciplines and key terms associated with journal articles that use newspapers in their research.
Keywords American, Art, Museum: Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, and the museum's promotional search engine optimization practices.
Race Conditions: Object-Oriented Programming Methodologies and Perpetrator-Oriented Racism
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation describes how the transition from procedural to object-oriented programming mirrors the Supreme Court's shift from a victim-oriented to a perpetrator-oriented perspective of racism.
[Keynote] Counting the Dead: Consent, Quantum Media, & How We Come to Matter
Keynote presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses how the practice of counting the dead is deeply entangled with the long histories the paperwork and media technologies used to certify and regulate the lives of U.S. citizens and expresses and shapes how the nation-state values different lives and bodies.
Breakdowns in Machine Reading: Attempting to De-privilege Modern English Print with the Power of Supercomputing and the DH Dashboard
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation is part of a panel addressing the constructive limitations of decolonializing DH by reflecting on the "Reading the First Books" project currently underway at the University of Texas at Austin. This presentation speaks to the project's technical breakdowns in machine reading.
Re-embodying Data: Encountering the "forgotten pandemic" of 1918
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses an installation to "re-embody" pandemic data, including the technologies, methods, and data used to construct the encounter.
Preserving the Archival Histories of Space Flight
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the data management strategies and practices for building an archive for space history.
Emotional Labor in the Digital Humanities
Seminar for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This seminar examines emotional labor as an integral component in the work of digital humanists, and as a means to develop professional relationships and scholarly partnerships that are more productive, equitable, and meaningful.
In Search of Charles B. Ward [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation discusses Charles B. Ward (1864-1917) and includes a biography and further implications for biography and musical reception history through resources originally created with different purposes in mind.
The Impact of Open Access in Scholarly Communications: Stakeholders Perspectives
Panel presentation for the 2013 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, the panelists discuss the impact of open access on scholarly communications with perspectives from five different stakeholders.
The Impact of Digitizing Resources: Content Partner and User Perspectives
Presentation for the 2012 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses research to measure the impact of digital assets in The Portal to Texas History.
The Handbook of Texas: Past and Future
Presentation for the 2012 Digital Frontiers Conference. The central challenge before the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is to seize the unprecedented opportunities of the 'Handbook of Texas' in the digital age in order to reshape how history will be accessed, disseminated, understood, and preserved in the twenty-first century. This presentation describes how the TSHA is facing the challenges along with its plans to realize the opportunities.
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