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“What’s Crocking in Digital Scholarship?” 2019

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The UNT Libraries Digital Scholarship Committee would like to thank everyone who came out for our “What’s Crocking in Digital Scholarship?” event on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2019. 

We had a nice turnout,  great food, and lots of lively conversations about digital scholarship resources, tools, and services that we offer.  Our slide show featured some of these resources, including materials in our Digital Libraries, projects done by our Portal to Texas History Research Fellows, and publication opportunities, like Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship.

See more in the slideshow below.

 

We also want to thank Coby Condrey, Megan Gellner, and Meranda Roy for serving as our Judges for the crockpot contest. 

And, of course, we’d especially like to thank all the cooks who worked so hard to help us put on a fun and informative event.  So without further ado, our crockpot contest winners are:

Best Overall Dish (as determined by our official judges): Inez Rice Pudding by the ECL Team

The remaining prizes were awarded based on all attendees judging forms:

Best Entree: Creamy Tomato Carrot Soup (Marcia McIntosh)

Best Side Dish: Tejano Beans (John Martin)

Best Dessert: Snickerdoodle Cookie (Jake Mangum)

Fan Favorite: White Chicken Chili (Sarah Allsup)

Best Theme: “It’s Bean Real, Muchachos!” (John Martin)

 

Keep an eye out for more information on our Spring 2020 event, “Day of Digital Scholarship,” where we’ll be featuring presentations on ongoing digital scholarship and pedagogy projects at UNT!

Images from “What’s Crocking in Digital Scholarship?”, Fall 2019

 

Day of DS Schedule

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Day of Digital Scholarship

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Willis Library, Room 250H

9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

See below for the schedule of events for our upcoming Day of DS!  

The day will include presentations on current digital scholarship projects by UNT faculty, students, and staff, an update on our recent digital scholarship survey, lunch bites and blogging, and an opportunity to mix & mingle with scholars from a variety of disciplines who share a common interest in exploring digital media, technologies, and new forms of scholarship. 

Plus, an exciting keynote at on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage” project by Dr. Carolina A Villarroel and Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura from the Arte Público Press and the University of Houston.

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Using Gephi for Data Visualization

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Author: Maristella Feustle

Many of us have been doing basic visualizations of quantitative data since elementary school, turning numerical information into charts and graphs. Somewhere along the line, most of us have also encountered Venn diagrams for visualizing conceptual relationships and attributes held in common between entities. But when we think of visualization, quantitative visualizations such as those produced by Excel are more accessible. Read more

Digital Blackface

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Author: Parker Mathias

I was moved to do this project by backlash I had seen in regards to the concept of ‘digital blackface’ after the publishing of the Teen Vogue article about it, by Laura Michele Jackson, in August of 2017. I thought my circle of friends were fairly accepting and open-minded, but mostly balked at the idea that they might need to reflect on their reliance on black over-reaction and performance on the internet.

For this project I did a deep dive and tried to gather sources from different political leanings to try and understand various viewpoints on the subject. I thought it was weird that otherwise self-professed liberal people ended up in exactly the same camp as hardcore right wing commenters when it came to ‘digital blackface’; the almost-universal answer to the issue seemed to be that acknowledging race at all in reaction gifs and images was the real racism.

It seemed, and still seems to me that this argument just lets the openly racist among us operate with greater freedom. Reproduced images of black people can’t protest when a white person uses them to advance white supremacy. When Rachel Dolezal was exposed, the right wing seized on the momentum presented by the idea of ‘fake’ black people to attack Movement for Black Lives activist Shaun King. The difference between conservatives weaponizing entertaining images of black people today and conservatives attending minstrel shows in the 1920’s is one of degrees.

Racism In The Fashion Industry

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Author: Kelly Taiclet

This post is going to be much different than what I usually do. I’m going to be sharing my newest collection of fashion illustrations along with the inspiration behind them. Read more

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