Digital Soundings: Expanding Digital Networks and Scholarship at UNCW was a virtual seminar series designed to foster interdisciplinary research success at UNCW by providing faculty with access to workshops and lectures led by experts in the fields of computational text analysis, data visualization, and digital mapping. The seminar series took place over the course of the 2020-21 academic year. Lecture and workshop recordings can be accessed on this page.
This talk considers the boundary trouble of digital humanities—specifically, who recognizes, misrecognizes, or doesn’t recognize the field. These disagreements arise at the moment digital humanities gets defined and institutionalized. A better approach might be to think about DH instead as a “boundary object” in which different groups can work together even in the absence of consensus. Ultimately, seeing DH as a boundary object may help to imagine its institutional success in terms of interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and curricula.
During the nineteenth century, the international exchange of newspapers became a precursor of our global information network. How did this network operate? What were its patterns of circulation and distortion? This talk shares a case study from the Oceanic Exchanges project (https://oceanicexchanges.org/) to analyze digital newspaper collections across nations and languages. It also flags the importance of data provenance, mixed methods, collaboration, and historical interpretation in large-scale digital scholarship.
This workshop introduced participants to text analysis with Python using Jupyter Notebooks. Click the links to access the individual session recordings.
This workshop introduced participants to geospatial data and digital mapping. Click the links to access the individual session recordings.
This workshop introduced participants to data visualization using Tableau. Session recordings are not available for this workshop.