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KevinF wrote a new post, Network Analysis Applied to Police Violence, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
There has been increasingly widespread coverage in recent years about the deaths of people at the hands of law enforcement. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen based upon the deaths of black citizens […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, Reflections on Twitter Analysis, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
The goal of our project is to perform analysis of “black twitter”, or more generally to examine racism and race issues as related to African Americans on Twitter. In order to do so, we compiled a list of key […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, Twitter: Analyzing Hate in Unconventional Ways, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
In Crossing Boundaries: Using GIS in Literary Studies, History and Beyond, the authors discuss the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in both historical research and now in a broader span of humanities […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, Energy and Climate Change: A Text Analysis, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
In order to explore and utilize the analysis tools made available as part of Voyant, I found two speeches about energy and climate change. The first is a speech made by Barack Obama in November 2015 at the U.N. […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, Search Algorithms and Gaming Feminism, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
In order to compare the algorithm behind Google, and the Dartmouth College Library search, I searched for the phrase “video game feminism” on both. You can see above some of the top results on google, which inc […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, Understanding Algorithms, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
In Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?, Benjamin Schmidt argues that digital humanists do not indeed need to understand algorithms, but they do need to understand the transformations that […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, The Counted, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The Counted is a comprehensive database of the deaths by law enforcement in the United States during 2015 and 2016. It is a project run by The Guardian, a Pulitzer-prize winning journal that originated as British […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, The Crowd-sourced Encyclopedia, on the site Technology, Networks, and Sciences on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Wikipedia comprises an enormous knowledge base that is constantly being adapted, edited and added to. In order to moderate this knowledge, Wikipedia utilizes a vast number of editors which it relies on to provide […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, Social Media: The Hidden Labor, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The rise of the Internet has allowed for near instantaneous communication throughout the world. Just like any other form of communications, the internet allows for the spread of ideas and values between groups. In […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, National Archives: The "Citizen Archivist", on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
I participated in part of a National Archives project as a “Citizens Archivist”. The National Archives, formally known as the National Archives and Records Administration, is an agency of the US government whi […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, Indigenous Knowledge Databases, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
In Michael Cristie’s Computer Databases and Aboriginal Knowledge, found at http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/ik/pdf/CompDatAbKnow.pdf, he discusses the possibility of creating a database of the knowledge of the e […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, TEI Headers and their Meaning, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The TEI header has five primary parts: the file description, encoding description, text profile, container element, and revision history. The file description contains a file bibliographical description of the […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, The American Prison Writing Project, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
The American Prison Writing Project (http://apw.dhinitiative.org/) is an ongoing process to build the “first fully searchable prison-writing archive”. The choice to create an archive of writing by prisoners rat […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, The Burning Library, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
If a library was burning to the ground, and I could only save a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or the book digitally transcribed, then which would I choose? Obviously one could take […]
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KevinF wrote a new post, What is Hastac?, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
Hastac.org is a social network that is meant for academics, rather than reconnecting with high school friends. The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory brings together academics […]
