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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.
- Sommer Browning: Comics as Poetry
- This video contains a conversation with Poet Sommer Browning on her work in melding together comics and poetry.
- Digital Medical Humanities: An Applied Media Studies Community of Practice
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kirsten Ostherr draws on examples from the Medical Media Arts Lab to show how digital medical humanities cultivates 21st century communication skills for future health professionals.
- Art + Recovery in the Digital Humanities
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, xtine burrough and Sabrina Starnaman discuss their participatory installation, a creative recovery effort focusing on the 1861 short story Life in the Iron Mills.
- More Than Pretty Pictures: Material Culture Digitally Revealed Through the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artist Archive
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Margaret Culbertson provides an overview of the development of the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive.
- Keynote Address: From I, Robot to WeRobotics: Humanitarian Robotics in Action
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This keynote address draws on real-world examples to illustrate how aerial robotics (drones) and other autonomous robotics solutions are being used in a wide range of humanitarian efforts.
- Keynote Address: Burning Down the Tent: New Futures for Social Justice and Digital Humanities
- Video recording of a keynote presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this keynote address, Roopika Risam uses digital initiatives at Salem State University as a case study to illustrate the key practices necessary for building digital humanities communities and institutional centers that place social justice at the core of their missions.
- Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Jeremy Berg discusses the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
- The Hill Archive in Practice: A Resource for the Texas Clay Exhibition and Publicaiton at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Amy Kurlander discusses using the Hill Archive to create an exhibition of 19th-century Texas pottery, and an illustrated catalogue of Bayou Bend's entire collection of over 180 Texas-made vessels.
- Quantifying Artist Canvas with Digital Signal Processing Tools
- Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Don Johnson describes and illustrates signal processing techniques used in technical examinations for art authentication, and demonstrates how these results are used in technical art history.
- Of Institutions, Initiatives, and the Importance of Regional Academic Communities: Building NYCDH
- Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kimon Keramidas and Alex Gil discuss how the New York City Digital Humanities group enables a wide variety of communities of practice, and the importance of regional communities in facilitating the growth of new academic fields, such as digital humanities.
- imagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of the Social and Architectural Evolution of Rio de Janeiro
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Farès el-Dahdah and Alida C. Metcalf discuss imagineRio, a searchable atlas platform that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city, as it existed and as it was often imagined.
- Discovering Texas Material Culture in the Briscoe Center for American History
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Lynn Bell discusses the three year period in which Fellows surveyed over 11,000 objects and archival items to identify and photograph those that would contribute to the Hill Archive's mission.
- Recital Preservation: Before They Fade Away
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Dara Flinn discusses issues in planning and executing a preservation project with Fondren Library and the Shepherd School of Music for digitizing audio materials.
- Grateful Data: Digital Humanities, Data Cleaning, and the Grateful Dead
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Scott Carlson discusses his efforts to teach data cleaning techniques using publicly available data related to the Grateful Dead, including data from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the Internet Archive, and the Internet Movie Database.
- Gephi Visualization and Text-Mining with R in the Study of Chen Duxiu, a Chinese Political and Cultural Iconoclast
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Anne Chao uses network visualization software and text-mining to render a more comprehensive understanding of Chen Duxiu.
- Workshop: Digital Literacy in the College
- Video recording of a workshop presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this workshop, Ron Thomas demonstrates an active-learning exercise wherein students create a presentation using an allusion-plus-image format in order to gloss allusions form the writer's text with images from the web.
- Digital Inputs, Cultural Outputs: Collaborative, Online Tools for Education, Research and Publication in the History of Art and Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, John North Hopkins presents the Collections Analysis Collaborative, an initiative of the Menil Collection and Rice University.
- Digital Facsimiles: the "Electronic Vesalius" and archival remediation
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel on a collaboration between the Texas Medical Center's Rare Book Room and McGovern Historical Center, the Rice Oshman Engineering and Design Kitchen, and Rice's Fondren Library and Humanities Research Center to create the "Electronic Vesalius."
- Welcome Address
- Welcome address for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference by the Conference Director, Spencer Keralis, and Host Welcome Addresses from Rice University by Vice Provost Sara Lowman and the Humanities Research Center Director, Farès el-Dahdah.
- ARTECA: Connecting Creative Communities
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel on a collaboration between MIT Press, Leonardo/ISAST and UT Dallas to create ARTECA, a digital scholarly aggregator. ARTECA serves as an online portal that supports the creation and dissemination of digital scholarly materials that explore the intersection of arts, science and technology.
- (Re)conceptualizing Research with Native Peruvian Artists in the Age of Digital Humanities
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Amanda Alexander discusses an ongoing research project with a Native Peruvian artist who works to preserve and keep alive a traditional type of pottery called a huaco.
- Real Talk: Connecting Classrooms and Public Archives
- Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel of representatives from Houston institutions, with lightning talks on their collaborations between LGBTQ archives and university classrooms, and a group discussion on topics raised by the lightning talks.
- Yes, but is it Linked Open Data?
- Poster presented at Digital Frontiers. This poster presents preliminary results from an analysis of 407 success proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities grant program.
- Proceedings of Digital Frontiers 2015
- Proceedings from the 2015 Digital Frontiers conference held at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. It includes information about the conference organization and abstracts of the sessions held during the event..
- Improving Digital Access to Zines
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the history role of zines and the benefits of making zine archives accessible to a wider audience.
- GIS and Civic Imagination
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the creation of a geographic information system dedicated to the history of Houston, and how such a system can function as a way to make archival documents accessible.
- eMOP’s Printers and Publishers: Toward Crafting an Early Modern Print Database
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the eMOP project's efforts to improve optical character recognition for early modern documents.
- The Women of El Toro
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses her project about the history of female Marines and military wives in the El Toro base through an app featuring oral histories.
- Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projects
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the implementation of Omeka in the UT Arlington libraries and how the library has used Omeka to reach out to the wider university community.
- Documenting Cultural Memory in the Digital Age
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses the representation of Mexican migrant workers in documentary photography, and how common representations may foster anti-immigrant sentiments.
- Creating The Living Wage Project: A Digital Archive
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the process of archiving a modern social movement by using real-time documentation, focusing on the American movement for a living wage.
- Beyond the Map: Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Book Trade Directory
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss the mapping of bibliographic data, focusing on the American Antiquarian Society's records of the 19th century children's book trade.
- Documenting Cultural Memory in the Digital Age
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses her digital photo essay on devotion to Guadalupe in the southwestern United States and in Mexico.
- Opening Keynote: Levelling Up: Cultural Memory, Gender, and the Future of Gaming
- Recording of a keynote presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, Carolyn Guertin discusses women in game development, #gamergate, and the effect of the "gamer" persona on the diversity of playstyles in the future of gaming.
- Director’s Welcome
- Welcome address for the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference by the Conference Director, Spencer Keralis, and the University of Texas - Dallas School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication Interim Dean, Todd Fechter.
- Digital Visualization in Cultural Memory
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, presenters discuss how the visualization of information affects cultural memory.
- Whose Memory is it Anyway? An Exploration of Forgotten Voices in the Holocaust
- Recording of a presentation session at the 2015 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this session, the presenter discusses their research into non-Jewish minority groups who were targeted during the Holocaust, cultural memory, and forgetting, and how these concepts manifest in digital preservation.