I did the same book but I didn't see this correlation in the trends part. This is so interesting! It also shows that if you don't know the plot very well, you can miss out some analyses. I did see 'Pooh' used frequently throughout the segments of the book, but I did not realize how the side characters have a frequency increasing throughout the second half of the book.

This is a very good point that I did not consider for the Murder Map. What both the Murder Map and The 12 Tones of London map do is integrate geographic data and demographic information and point out certain locations. In Murder Map, the locations are murder spots, and in 12 Tones of London, they are the most typical member in each cluster of council ward.

These maps are the most common map types that I have seen. These are used in tourist maps, college building maps, museum maps, and such. I have also used this kind of map using the Google My Map to relay information about Japanese American incarceration on the west coast, pointing out specific locations with text, website info, color, to show the development of Japanese towns.

Yes this is a great question! I once read from the Amherst student newspaper that after Amherst became co-ed, there were a lot of sexual harassment issues. Especially, I remember a male student stating that because women now reside next door, they can't freely roam around bars and clubs. It would also be interesting to look at how student opinion changes, since there would be turning points not only in society but also in college that change their perspectives. For example, a sexual harassment incident at Amherst college changed the entire student body's perspective on reporting procedures and related administration.

These are exciting research questions and relevant to our campus lives. I'm wondering whether there would be a clear distinction between college initiatives versus small-scale or student-led initiatives. College initiatives can be mostly large-scale, funded by alumni/investors, and can involve architectural, and engineering elements more than student-led initiatives. Also sometimes, the college's response to climate change can be vastly different from that of individual students/communities. It would be interesting to understand how this group categorizes the community efforts and also look at state schools for comparison!

From a novice's perspective, I always thought text analysis was using critical thinking skills and being able to understand and transliterate the hidden meanings or the author's intention. I didn't know there were so many different ways to look at the text. I did understand that material and institutional encounters with the text can be analyzed. But paratext and somatic encounters were new for me. Paratext, meaning the materials surrounding the main text, and somatic encounters with the text, I still have no clue. But it seems that text analysis has more than just writing and reading with the eye, especially noticing patterns, selecting or excluding certain parts, and relating the text to a larger social background.

I like the fact that you referred to the video to address the unintentional/erroneous biases or misunderstandings of the previous researchers' works. It is interesting that in humanities and in archival work, many people and successive researchers/archivists contribute to the big data to make it smart data. That's why as you mentioned, we need to understand how transcribing from handwritten to digital versions can include some mistakes.

I'm actually surprised to see that the concept of data in humanities is similar with that in the marketing field. From this summer's internship, I have learned about search engine optimization, which prioritizes data as a door to understanding the language of search engines. To optimize nontext components of webpages, the structured data and metadata are used in coding to mark up relevant content and increase search engine visibility. Especially using extensible markup code(XML) or structured data helps identify specific types of content. For me, it is clear that data, whether it be in humanities or digital marketing, can be used for the visibility of particular objects.

I liked the introduction starting with defining what archival work is, then moving on to the metadata that can unpack information of archives. It also brings up curiosity that there is no author information about the journal because, for most academic journals, the publication affiliated stakeholders or collaborators are always noted. A valid point also from the blog post is that since it dated from 1986 to 1987, there might not have been a clearly defined medical term and specifications for homosexuality, homophobia, and related people's subcultures.

P 663. This striking instantiation of archival silence illuminates the concerns that course through the archive of the antebellum United States. (I added annotations on the title since I could not annotate directly on the text) Comment: The digital humanities that shed light on archives show that not only documents have power inherently that leaves a legacy of the privileged, but also in the making of archives, the act of revisiting the documents, such as the moments of fact creation, fact assembly, fact retrieval, and retrospective significance may be a silencing one. Especially here, the featured antebellum archives show distinctive dynamics of gender, social hierarchy, and social vocabulary that scholars may not notice the archival silences.

This paragraph reminds me of my personal experience of working with social enterprises. When I was in charge of a corporate social responsibility project, I had to do marketing but there was no available data of the company's csr activities. Same way as the young adults did, I had do gather data from local welfare centers and scraps of data from the company database that proved that the company is really a social enterprise and not whitewashing its brand. It seems that collaboration between local youth and companies can make progress in the digital humanities field in various sectors and methods.

This table really helps to structure the domination, and also gives me a better understanding of the power structure.

I recently learned the same issue in archives as well, Amherst college archives consists of mostly traditionally white men's history, so the archivist was telling us to be aware of the power structure.

Sad and angry that just because the privilege of an individual could make things happen that others could not experience.

quite shocking that there wasn't a national system in 2018.

Great example of instagram # projects and initiatives, it reminds me of the recent Roe v. Wade protests on instagram about reproductive justice.

Yes, it may provide a novel path that integrates both perspectives, seems hopeful.

Would these two fields be rather separated? I feel like this could be a chicken or eggs question.

Would like to know further about these initiatives, I think these are really important efforts to make humanities projects more accessible and intersectional to other fields.

Why is it so? Exactly what aspect of 'computing' makes it less palatable than 'digital humanities'? Is it the uncomfortableness of having to communicate with a totally different field, or the uncertainty in the 'computing' field since it is an everchanging field?

I'm also curious about the word computing and digitized, they have completely different notions. Computing gives a more computer oriented view, while digitized gives a more archival and accessible view towards humanities. Based on these words and categories, I wonder if digital humanities range from humanities from a computer science perspective to humanities from a very traditional perspective. For example, would autonomous car engineers learning about ethics and morals be considered to be involved in digital humanities?

I guess 'traditional' would also mean fundamental, since in the 21st century there has to be inevitably unconventional and newly emerging questions and researches to the humanities.

It makes me question what is so important about setting boundaries? Is it about the field's authority, or narrowing it down so that there is a consensus or clarity?

I didn't know that Twitter was an immense influence in the MLA convention. I rather thought Instagram as a more prominent example of the use of social media, since now we can see a lot of humanities related articles/insights/projects always posting on instagram and asking for support and traffic