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  • A Brief Look at Carleton’s Social Media History

    Over the course of winter term, each of the Digital Scholarship interns worked on a project relating to a common theme – Carleton’s history on the internet. I decided to research our social media usage on two different platforms, comparing the culture on LiveJournal in the early 2000s to the culture on Facebook now. My…

  • Working from Home? Hardly Working.

    So now there’s this. Carleton has moved online-only for the rest of the year. All academics and most staff activities are taking place over the internet, which means most of the Carleton population is now, in one way or another, working from home. Luckily, one of my long-term projects this year has been organization and…

  • Ethics Week 9: What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Humanities

    This past week I was lucky enough to attend two different talks co-sponsored by the Cinema & Media Studies and Digital Arts & Humanities departments, both given by Jason Mittell of Middlebury College. It got me reflecting on a couple of different aspects, both of my work at Carleton as a student and my work…

  • Ethics Week 8: What Do You Do with Academic Software?

    So this week (and the past couple weeks, actually) I’ve been doing some reading on the legal policies of a company called Gradescope. While this isn’t a full write-up, more an extension of some annotation I’ve been doing lately, I thought it would make a good blog post. So, Gradescope. What is it? Who is…

  • Ethics Week 7: The New Travel Ban

    So. The travel ban. It’s not strictly digital humanities, but it’s definitely ethics and it’s definitely relevant to Carleton. So that’s my blog post for today: what’s happening, what does it mean, and how is it going to impact us? What’s happening? Basically, the Trump administration is expanding their limitations on visas for immigration into…

  • Ethics Week 6: The Road So Far

    It’s midterms, and you know what that means. Time to review! … my work so far this term, that is. I’ve already taken my exams. I did a little inventory of my past blog posts, as well as some behind-the-scenes stuff, so today I’m going to be talking about what I said I’d do versus…

  • Ethics Week 5: Let’s Talk About Iowa

    My post this week was going to be about how people use libraries and the information they contain. Then Iowa happened. So this week, we’re summarizing the technological debacle that was Monday’s Iowa caucus. What happened? Did anyone expect it? How did this come about? A quick overview In brief: in the Iowa caucus, people…

  • Ethics Week 4: It’s 2020. Where is Your Work?

    This week, I’ve been reading up on archival and maintenance systems, with a special eye to digital scholarship. How do we store and maintain things? How are systems designed to facilitate their own updates, and to keep their contents both safe and accessible? What I’m talking about has a couple of different aspects attached to…

  • Ethics Week 3: What’s the CCPA?

    This week I’ve been following up on looking into the CCPA, or California Consumer Privacy Act. Quick intro: the CCPA is a law that came into effect in California on January 1st, 2020, which addresses data security with regards to companies that collect and sell user data. There is a cheatsheet provided by the California…

  • Ethics Week 2: Laying the Groundwork

    This being the second in a series of weekly blog posts, intended to edify the public on the various goings-on within the ethical strata of the Digital Scholarship community of Carleton, particularly with regards to… I kid, I kid. Here’s a quick catch-up on what I’ve been doing this week! The process of my work…

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