To play Gender Reveal Party in your browser, go to my itch.io page! Gender Reveal Party is a visual novel that explores the idea of embodied personhood, my own personhood, within digital humanities Using the methods of autoethnography, and a performance studies perspective, this game brings together Augusto Boal’s theory of the “spect-actor” with the realm of the digital. Gender…
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Revisited: A Geospatial Exploration of Tragedy
We banded ourselves together, moved by a sense of stricken guilt, to prevent this kind of disaster from ever happening again. Frances Perkins, witness to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1933-1945), and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. INTRODUCTION Can we use geospatial tools to explore the human condition and tragedy? The Triangle Shirtwaist…
Weighted Words
Using a combination of HTRC Analytics and Voyant Tools, this study compares the language used in a collection of turn of the century weight loss texts to that of the current weight loss verticals on the websites of Women’s Health and Men’s Health in order to investigate what has changed or remained the same in terms of how weight, bodies…
Analyzing produce crate label images via Python and ImageJ
Over the course of the Spring Semester, our Digital Humanities class analyzed a variety of digital humanities projects from spatial analysis and mapping, to data visualizations, to text analysis methods. I have an art history background and really enjoy visualizations both for their aesthetic value and also for their ability to enhance large data. There are many ways to gather…
The Religious Landscape of New Orleans: Exploring the WPA’s Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations (1941)
Introduction Religion has played a prominent role in New Orleans life and culture since its French and Spanish colonial beginnings. Today, the city is home to a wide array of religious denominations including Catholicism, Judaism, and various forms of Protestantism. Each of these groups has a rich and interesting history. These histories, in turn, are interwoven with each other across…