CFP: Composition as Big Data

Computational analysis of big data has changed the way information is processed. Corporations analyze patterns in what people buy, how far they run, where they spend their time; they quantify habits to create more effective advertisements and cross-promotions. In academe, humanities scholars are using computational analysis to identify patterns in literary texts, historical documents, image […]

NFAIS Humanities Roundtable Presentation

These are the slides for my Sept. 29th featured presentation at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable in New York. View the full program here Full text of this presentation will be added to this post soon. Licastro_NFAIS_HumanitiesRoundtable_Fall2014 from Amanda Licastro  

#AAEEBL2014 Presentation

Here is my presentation for the 2014 AAEEBL conference, complete with text. Thank you to those who came, to Macaulay Honors College for their support, and to those reading this for their constructive feedback. Abstract: After over a decade of integrating eportfolio technology into the post-secondary classroom, where do we stand? The pedagogical practice of […]

Playing with Data

This will be the first in what I hope to be a series of posts describing how I began dealing with my dissertation data. I am writing these posts in order to help others embark on data-driven projects, as well as to document my process. It is important to disclose that I am new to […]

Drucker on Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship

Drucker, Johanna. Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship. Debates in Digital Humanities. Matt Gold ed. U of Minnesota P. 2012. This contribution by Johanna Drucker opens with two very poignant questions for the dh world: 1) “are [humanists] actually doing anything different or just extending the activities that have always been their core concerns, enabled by […]