Looking at different Wikipedia articles, it’s interesting seeing the amount of attention each item gets depending on the subject. Nobody cares about Malcolm Gladwell, it seems. (Very sad. Very very sad.) The updates are small and focused on fixing typos or confirming whether he has a brother or not. Elon Musk, on the other hand,…
The Reflection Post
The spring 2022 semester saw the birth of the first ADH Refresh, Restore, Rescue project of which I had the honor of contributing to. We started with a list of scrambled websites to work from. We had no idea which websites worked, had minor infractions, or deteriorated fully over time. And so we started the…
5 Lessons the Late-2000s Can Teach You about Digital Identity
For this assignment, I looked at the Controlling your Public Appearance, Footprints in the Digital Age, Three-Part Who Owns the Digital You, and Six Key Selves of Networked Publics, and Personal Branding in the Age of Google pages to gain some insight into what digital identity is and how to cultivate it. The most fascinating…
Returning to The Horse
I’ve been hibernating for the past few weeks, I’ll be honest! I fell off the horse. The horse did not buck me off its back, it did not rear up in a frenzy and throw me off, I simply slinked off of the saddle and fell into a deep deep coma. I’m awake now, however,…
The History of Music Consumption and A Map of 5 Sitcoms
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A Review of Three Whole Websites
Alright, let’s see what insights these beloved websites have to offer. I’m going to be looking at three websites: The First Days Project (a Roy Rosenzweig Prize Recipient), Gilded Age Murder, and American Panorama: Foreign Born Migration. The First Days Project The things that stand out to me about the First Days Project website is…
Goin’ North in a Shoe Box
What is digital history about if not making work accessible to the public? And what better way is there to do this than place it on the Internet? And what do many academic archives use? ¡ɐʞǝɯO-↋ ǝuou-↊ ƃuᴉɥʇou -⇂ :sɹǝʍsuɐ I’m going through two Omeka archives today in order to get a better idea of…
Hello World*!
*HIST428 What is Digital Humanities- I mean History- I mean Humanities! Digital Humanities is a broad term that refers to the intersection between, you guessed it, the digital world and the world of humanities. It uses technology as a means of studying the humanities, (creating new ways to interact with fields such as history, literature,…
