Category Archives: Social Media Literacy

Interview with Andrew Hussie, Creator of Homestuck

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

I recently interviewed Andrew Hussie, the creator of Problem Sleuth and Homestuck at MS Paint Adventures. In my continuing belief that digital humanities scholars can learn practical and theoretical lessons from avant garde digital artists, I’m posting that interview here. … Continue reading →

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Opera Collaborations in the Early 18th Century

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

This is a small piece of a larger dataset of operas, their composers, librettists, theatres of performance and dedicatees from the 17th and early 18th century.  As I was sifting through the modules identified by network analysis, I came upon … Continue reading →

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Networks and Perspective

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve been digging into Alexis Jacomyal’s new network graph viewer SiGMa, which is still in development but the source is available at github. One of the features he’s developing is a fisheye viewer, which is fun and frustrating and affords … Continue reading →

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Wikileaks, Wikipedia and Fractures

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Wikileaks has begun another large-scale dump of classified material, prompting a tweet from Larry Sanger, academic and co-founder of Wikipedia: @wikileaks Speaking as Wikipedia’s co-founder, I consider you enemies of the U.S.–not just the government, but the people. 12:26 PM … Continue reading →

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The Pirate Bay, Copyright and Tradition

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Copying is not theft, and we intuit that when we see those silly commercials comparing downloading movies to stealing cars. Of course, it begs the question of whether or not file-sharing and copyright infringement cause damage despite not being theft. … Continue reading →

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Updated DH@Stanford Thematic Graphs

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The project-oriented and person-oriented graphs of the most updated dataset of the Digital Humanities network at Stanford are up on the Digital Humanities at Stanford page.  I played with some of the different algorithms, which made them messier.  As usual, … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities as XKCD Community Map

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Something tells me that Glen Worthey’s desired map of the Digital Humanities would look more like this: While enjoyable and probably not deserving of too critical a gaze, it illustrates the problem of metrics and visualization in dealing with large … Continue reading →

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Multiscale Apps

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

This article is cross-posted on Ubiquity. With Apple’s retreat from their position disallowing the development of iDevice apps using Adobe AIR–fundamentally the same technology used in Flash on the Web–and the growth in Flash-supported mobile devices, the much-heralded and by … Continue reading →

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Humanities Graphs Using Gephi

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The network visualization tool Gephi, which recently received recognition from Oracle as an exemplary Java project, provides an enormously powerful toolbox for visualizing and analyzing network data such as the kind found in the new Mapping the Republic of Letters … Continue reading →

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When the mouse was in my hand, the cigarette flew away

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The Digital Humanities is a big tent, and includes analysis of how digital communication has affected traditional society.  I couldn’t help thinking about this as I was watching one of my favorite actors, Shammi Kapoor, in the process of putting … Continue reading →

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