Category: Research
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Publishing at DH2017 (Montréal)
As the Fall 2017 semester flashes by, my thoughts continue to turn to the lively DH2017 meeting in August and my 42 pages(!) of notes (typing helps my brain stay alert in long, intense days of back-to-back sessions). I have posted general takeaways elsewhere; here I wanted to share some specific items of potential interest to […]
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Presenting about constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space at FemRhet
A couple weeks ago at the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference in Dayton, OH, I presented my paper “Working with/in constellations: Orienting to Feminist Scholarly Publishing Practices.” My presentation, with other co-presenters (Malea Powell and Alex Hidalgo) on the panel, focused on the newly established journal constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space, which is the first pilot […]
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Scalar & The College Art Association
In January 2017, Dr. Nancy Um, Dr. Stephen H. Whiteman, and I embarked on a special project for the Art Bulletin. We spent seven months translating Dr. Whiteman’s review of the Seattle Art Museum’s Chinese Painting & Calligraphy Catalog onto Scalar. The text on Scalar is the same as what is written in the print journal. […]
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A fully online thesis as PhD
As a HASTAC Scholar I was a PhD candidate at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne in Australia. From the outset, I knew I was curating a digital space as thesis – a fully online digital research portfolio of my a/r/tographic practice. My methodologies and methods, are visual, and these visual practices require a site that opens the […]
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In this post-truth world, can we still rely on archives to tell the truth?
Facet Publishing have announced the release of The Silence of the Archive by David Thomas, Simon Fowler and Valerie Johnson In recent years big data initiatives, not to mention Hollywood, the video game industry and countless other popular media, have reinforced and even glamorized the public image of the archive as the ultimate repository of […]
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The workplace remains a ‘new frontier’ for those who research and think about Information Literacy
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Information Literacy in the Workplace, edited by Marc Forster with a foreword by Jane Secker In today’s information-driven workplace, information professionals must know when research evidence or relevant legal, business, personal or other information is required, how to find it, how to critique it and how to integrate […]
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On the lives of fugitives: Runaway slave advertisement databases
African descended women, men, and children who freed themselves from slavery through daring, life-threatening escapes seem to have captured the public imagination in popular culture as well as academia. The hit television show “Underground” is a fictionalized account of the Underground Railroad, a network of runaway slaves and “conductors” who gave them refuge amd transportation […]
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Using Lightroom to Make Your Images Work for You
My name is Mariah Postlewait and I am an art historian, a photographer, and a photography scholar. In short, I work on photography. One thing that keeps coming up (during class lectures, with student presentations, at conferences) is poor image quality. Oftentimes the kinds of imagery a scholar may need simply do not exist and […]
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Creating Dynamic Research Papers or What I Learned from Scalar.
This past winter, I used Scalar to digitally publish my research on the 19th C British photographer Francis Frith and his street photographs of Cairo. My interest in his photographs was inspired by the course The Sultan’s Palace taught by Dr. Nancy Um, Associate Professor of Art History, at Binghamton […]
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Spring 2017 Digital Project Review No.1: Marco Basile’s review of “The Liberated Africans”
The Liberated Africans Project Created and maintained by Henry B. Lovejoy, Richard P. Anderson, Daniela Cavalheiro, David Eltis, Suzanne Schwarz, and Daryle Williams. http://www.liberatedafricans.org/overview.html. Reviewed Jan. 2017. Marco Basile, JD/PhD Harvard University From 1807 to the 1860s, Britain led an international legal effort to suppress the Atlantic slave trade, largely by securing treaties that […]