Category Archives: Social Media Literacy

Metrics of Success

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

  After two weeks, ORBIS has received over 36,000 visitors, with 4000 return visitors and over 45,000 route queries to the map.  People are downloading the traditional PDF version of the article, as well as CSVs and KMLs of their … Continue reading →

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My Day of DH – Pernicious Collaboration

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

I took part in the Day of DH yesterday, though not as vigorously as I did last year. Here is the Day of Elijah Meeks, in case you’re really, really interested. The post of mine I thought the most valuable … Continue reading →

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Drupal for Humanists

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

Quinn Dombrowski and I are writing a manual on using the Drupal 7 CMS for digital humanities projects.  Titled unimaginatively Drupal for Humanists, it is meant to provide first an understanding of how to install and configure Drupal and then … Continue reading →

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TV Tropes Pt. 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 2: Trope (but not Troper) Communities Example of Thematic Relationships While it’s one thing to use network visualization to display these structures, and use analytical tools like community detection to make … Continue reading →

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TVTropes Pt 2: Trope (But Not Troper) Communities

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn Example of Thematic Relationships I received quite a few comments about the last article, most of which I haven’t approved, … Continue reading →

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TVTropes Pt 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Part 2: Trope (but not Troper) Communities Part 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn Example of Thematic Relationships HP Lovecraft popularized a certain type of malevolent force, something so massive and powerful and unconcerned and … Continue reading →

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Hacking Networks in the Humanities

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Hacking, it seems, is in the air. Dan Cohen has announced the edited version of Hacking the Academy, here at Stanford we’ve finished up with our Humanities Hackerspace experiment, and another Bay Area THATCamp (where I’ll be officially giving a … Continue reading →

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An Ecology of the English Peoples

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

A river of Stuarts and Plantagenets feeds a lake of Barclays, Darwins and Lennoxes, from which thin streamers of more exotic Wedgwoods, Elliotts and Babingtons do grow.

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Visualizing Genealogical Networks

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Genealogy would seem most amenable to network visualization and analytics, until one realizes just how tangled up certain families can be… Women in light red and men in light blue are connected to family units (grey) based on their type … Continue reading →

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Twitter, a Good Social Network for Non-Humans

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

While the shocker headline deals with Newt Gingrich, what’s buried away in PeekYou’s analysis is the disturbing fact that typically only “30-60″ per cent of Twitter Followers in general are real.  Coupled with the surprising connectivity provided by spammers and … Continue reading →

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