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Research Talks – Fall 2019 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects
December 9, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Please join us on December 9th in Digital Matters to hear our Fall 2019 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects.
Maria Alberto, DM Graduate Fellow, PhD student in the Dept. of English, “Bots: Authorial Implications in Digital Narratives”
Bots have social implications, even when created to fulfill purely functional roles. Whether imitating human users, extending those users’ capacities, or enforcing platform policies, bots make significant interventions in digital narratives. To demonstrate, Maria Alberto (PhD student in the Department of English) examines popular gaming bots, exploring how they recreate conditions – and expectations – of materiality, authority, and permanence online.
Jeff Turner, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, “Native Places Atlas Project: Mapping Native Utah”
Native Places Atlas Project: Mapping Native Utah is in its preliminary stage of having a working visual map, database, and surrounding content management system. This semester focused on learning to use Leaflet, PostgreSQL, and Mukurtu for those purposes in the hopes of launching the site externally next semester.
Jon Mills, DM Faculty Grantee, Asst. Prof., Multi-Disciplinary Design Program, “Inhabitable Research”
What does it mean to inhabit our research? The ability to understand and communicate invisible and abstract systems is critical to design research — virtual reality lets us experience these systems in ways we can’t in the real world. In doing so, we can better understand and contextualize complex issues and potential design solutions as well as their impacts.
Anna Neatrour, DM Faculty Grantee, Digital Initiatives Librarian & Rachel Wittmann, Digital Curation Librarian, “Kennecott Miner Records: a Transcription and Collections as Data Pilot Project”
Kennecott Miner Records transcription pilot project is enabling us to articulate best practices and experiment with building a dataset that will allow digital humanists to explore issues of labor, immigration, and family history with evocative primary source materials. This talk will provide background on the project, an update on what we’ve learned so far, and sample data visualizations.