Practicum 14;

Dear future student, So you’re interested in taking a digital humanities class, and you’re still not sure what it means to be a digital humanist? The easiest way to describe digital humanities involves the digital realm itself, but not in the way expected from a…

Practicum 13; Working with algorithms

This first image is the result given when I typed “Simulacra are” in the Talk to Transformer algorithm website.   These are the topic model results from putting Ulysses into Voyant tools.   For this week’s practicum, we explored the use and function of algorithms…

Practicum 12; breaking a rule, being real cool

For this practicum, I played around with the Monkeys Writing Shakespeare code and had a lot of fun seeing how, where, and when the code fell apart and stopped functioning. By merely playing with the code’s replacement function and changing the possible word bank with…

Week 11 Practicum; Scalar

Here is the link to my scalar project book: http://scalar.cdla.oxycreates.org/joycelook/ Compared to the other platforms introduced throughout the semester, Scalar is the most exciting and conflicting for me thus far. While on the one hand, I was able to connect posts and ideas in a way…

Week 9 Practicum: MLA and Zotero Time!

MLA Bibliography: Äyrämö, Sanna-Mari. “Narrative Constitution for Instructional Game Design: A Semiotic-Cognitive Model of Narrative.” Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2016, pp. 53–72. JSTOR, doi:10.5250/storyworlds.8.2.0053. Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrrrr.org%2Fdata%2Fedu%2F20110509-cascone%2FBarthes-image_music_text.pdf. Accessed 24 Oct. 2019. Battigelli, Anna. “The Schema as…

Practicum 8: Abundance vs. Scarcity

Regarding the conflicts seen by a scarcity and abundance of cultural memories, abundance worries me more. Even though I understand the two concepts to be linked together symbiotically, with an abundance defining that deficiency concerning the space available, an abundance represents a flood of information…

StoryMap: LA to Chapman on the 405—A McDilemma

(If the map doesn’t load, click here) One of my favorite features about StoryMaps is the ability to allow a cohesive and organized narrative over a map. While I imagine that most traditional maps are made to utilize their aesthetics to imply a narrative, the…

Arc-GIS Online Map of 405 and McDonald’s Restaurants

For my Arc-GIS Online Map, I decided to map my usual freeway route on the 405 when traveling between West Los Angeles and Chapman University by utilizing the live traffic layer that reports stoppages, delays, and slowdowns in real time. I began the 405 driving…

Voyant Analysis of Ulysses

So this week, I used the Voyant tools to dissect my favorite novel, Ulysses, by James Joyce and see what interesting trends lie under its weird hood. I did not know what to expect once I put the novel into Voyant and the word bubble appeared…