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Open-Access Workshop Provides Resources for Conducting Internet Research in the Humanities

Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research is an open-access workshop that provides humanities scholars with resources and training about working with computational…

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Analysis of Novels from 1850-2000 Shows a Rise in Body Parts to Describe Characters

Dr. Jonathan Y. Cheng from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, analyzed 13,000 novels published from 1850-2000 and found that more and more descriptions of characters in novels focus on body parts. In 1850, male characters were described with…

Six graphs from the article demonstrate trends over time for "potato," "cinema," "cigarette," "couch," "radio," and "sweater"

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Ads Both Shape and Reflect Culture, An Analysis of 30 Million Dutch Newspapers Finds

An analysis of 30 million Dutch newspapers found that advertisements do shape articles--but it also works the other way around.

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Lexos Text Tool Explores Hidden Patterns in Digital Text Collections

Students and professors at Wheaton college worked for over a decade to create Lexos, a free and web-based text analysis tool. Lexos was created so that users could upload text collections from the web and extract patterns from the text in order…

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Rethinking Wikipedia Usage Could Create Knowledge Activists at the University Level

A recent blog written by Ewan McAndrew, a Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, declares that students from different disciplines and backgrounds can help close the knowledge and representation gap by contributing their scholarship to Wikipedia.

Tools

User-Centered CMS Empowers Marginalized Communities

The Warumungu Aboriginal community worked to develop Mukurtu as an archival platform that allowed them to organize, manage and share their digital cultural heritage in their own way.

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Cherokee Stereotypes Outnumber Positive Mentions by Three Times on Twitter

Susana at Indigenous Engineering found that words like “tomahawk” and “Pocahottie” were far more common than mentions of tribal sovereignty and citizenship.

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Open-Access Workshop Provides Resources for Conducting Internet Research in the Humanities

Analysis of Novels from 1850-2000 Shows a Rise in Body Parts to Describe Characters

Ads Both Shape and Reflect Culture, An Analysis of 30 Million Dutch Newspapers Finds

Lexos Text Tool Explores Hidden Patterns in Digital Text Collections

Rethinking Wikipedia Usage Could Create Knowledge Activists at the University Level

User-Centered CMS Empowers Marginalized Communities

Cherokee Stereotypes Outnumber Positive Mentions by Three Times on Twitter

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