Digital Humanities reimagines how traditional humanities can interact with technology to present and share information in new ways. The field also works to make scholarly information more accessible to the public and to bring together different voices and narratives. This page highlights some of my projects in this area.
SayKid Internship: Silly Stories (Summer 2022)
During the Summer of 2022 I interned for a small educational tech start up called SayKid. SayKid creates screen less interactive voice activated games for kids. The project I worked on was silly stories. It was a Madlibs type game where kids could write their own stories with the help of our system. I thought it was a prime example of Digital Humanities (although not very scholarly). The program worked to help kids create stories in new ways because to they could record and listen to their stories without needing to read and write.
ArcGIS Mapping Project: Modern Arb Uses (Fall 2022)
As a final for the class Hacking the Humanities, my group mates and I created a website that highlighted the ways that people use Carleton’s arboretum today. We used ArcGIS to overlay our paths onto a preexisting map. Our main focus was bringing together people’s experiences in the arb to build a map that would promote inclusivity.
Visualizing Shakespeare with Voyant (Fall 2022)
As a midterm for Hacking the Humanities I did a textual analysis of Mark Twain’s speeches to see whether the terms women and children appeared near each other in the text and how man fit into that. The tool Voyant is incredibly useful for doing textual analysis as you can manipulate the data in a number of way
Public Scholarship Project: Editing Wikipedia (Winter 2023)
In the class Material Culture of Forced Labor we learned to edit Wikipedia pages and update them with our research. The purpose of this was to make the research we had done more accessible to the public. Wikipedia. The image to the left is the section that I wrote about transportation to modern Russian prisons on the Penal Colonies page.
