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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 494: English Capstone — Comics and Graphic Novels on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
This section of 494 provides students with an introduction to the reading, history, and making of comics and graphic novels. Comics have often been associated with popular culture, pulp fiction, and ephemerality. Yet comics merge image and text to create a unique form of sequential art that is becoming ever more visible and influential in our…[Read more]
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DTC 356 explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political roles of information and data. Beginning with library classification systems and Wikipedia, the course then turns to the role of metadata in organizing collections and our lives before ending with a consideration of text-mining and topic modeling. The conclusion considers these techniques in…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson's profile was updated on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 392: Video Games Theory and History in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 7 years agoHistory and theory of video games with a focus on cultural impact.
DTC 392 explores the cultural and historical impact of video games. We will learn about these issues by engaging in a semester-long project where we will prototype a video game. Video games are not just entertainment: they can be art, a form of political resistance, even a way…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 392: Video Games Theory and History in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoHistory and theory of video games with a focus on cultural impact.
DTC 392 explores the cultural and historical impact of video games. We will learn about these issues by engaging in a semester-long project where we will prototype a video game. Video games are not just entertainment: they can be art, a form of political resistance, even a way…[Read more]
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History and theory of video games with a focus on cultural impact.
DTC 392 explores the cultural and historical impact of video games. We will learn about these issues by engaging in a semester-long project where we will prototype a video game. Video games are not just entertainment: they can be art, a form of political resistance, even a way…[Read more]
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Alberto Campagnolo's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
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Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
356 Information Structures 3 Course Prerequisite: DTC 101. Social and cultural role of information; research with electronic sources; production, validation, storage, retrieval, evaluation, use, impact of electronic information. (Crosslisted course offered as DTC 356, ENGLISH 356).Course Description
DTC 356 explores the…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
356 Information Structures 3 Course Prerequisite: DTC 101. Social and cultural role of information; research with electronic sources; production, validation, storage, retrieval, evaluation, use, impact of electronic information. (Crosslisted course offered as DTC 356, ENGLISH 356).Course Description
DTC 356 explores the…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
356 Information Structures 3 Course Prerequisite: DTC 101. Social and cultural role of information; research with electronic sources; production, validation, storage, retrieval, evaluation, use, impact of electronic information. (Crosslisted course offered as DTC 356, ENGLISH 356).Course Description
DTC 356 explores the…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 475: Digital Diversity (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
475 [DIVR] Digital Diversity 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Cultural impact of digital media in cultural contexts; issues of race, class, gender, sexuality online. (Crosslisted course offered as AMER ST 475, DTC 475, ENGLISH 475).Course Description
DTC 475 is a continuation of the issues explored in DTC 206,…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 475: Digital Diversity (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
475 [DIVR] Digital Diversity 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Cultural impact of digital media in cultural contexts; issues of race, class, gender, sexuality online. (Crosslisted course offered as AMER ST 475, DTC 475, ENGLISH 475).Course Description
DTC 475 is a continuation of the issues explored in DTC 206,…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 475: Digital Diversity (Fall 2018) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoCatalog Description
475 [DIVR] Digital Diversity 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Cultural impact of digital media in cultural contexts; issues of race, class, gender, sexuality online. (Crosslisted course offered as AMER ST 475, DTC 475, ENGLISH 475).Course Description
DTC 475 is a continuation of the issues explored in DTC 206,…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures (Fall 2018) on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
Catalog Description
356 Information Structures 3 Course Prerequisite: DTC 101. Social and cultural role of information; research with electronic sources; production, validation, storage, retrieval, evaluation, use, impact of electronic information. (Crosslisted course offered as DTC 356, ENGLISH 356).Course Description
DTC 356 explores the…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited DTC 475: Digital Diversity (Spring 2018) on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
Catalog Description
475 [DIVR] Digital Diversity 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Cultural impact of digital media in cultural contexts; issues of race, class, gender, sexuality online. (Crosslisted course offered as AMER ST 475, DTC 475, ENGLISH 475).Course Description
DTC 475 is a continuation of the issues explored in DTC 206,…[Read more] -
Amanda L. French started the topic V-E Day Transcribathon of WWII Soldier Surveys – May 8, 2018 in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoVictory in Europe Day Transcribathon
May 8, 2018Join us in celebrating VE Day with a Transcribathon for The American Soldier Project
10am – 5pm (EDT)
Athenaeum Classroom, Newman Library
https://lib.vt.edu/tas.htmlMore about The American Soldier Project
The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive [Zooniverse Project Link]…[Read more] -
Amanda L. French started the topic V-E Day Transcribathon of WWII Soldier Surveys – May 8, 2018 in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoVictory in Europe Day Transcribathon
May 8, 2018Join us in celebrating VE Day with a Transcribathon for The American Soldier Project
10am – 5pm (EDT)
Athenaeum Classroom, Newman Library
https://lib.vt.edu/tas.html
The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive is a project to make broadly available a remarkable collection of written…[Read more] -
Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 521: Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 8 years agoDarko Suvin claims that science fiction is fundamentally concerned with “cognitive estrangement,” or the presence of some element in the story that transforms how its readers understand their world. In fact, much of the developments in science, economics, and politics in the nineteenth century were also concerned with the new worlds revealed by…[Read more]
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Roger Whitson deposited ENGL 521: Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 8 years agoDarko Suvin claims that science fiction is fundamentally concerned with “cognitive estrangement,” or the presence of some element in the story that transforms how its readers understand their world. In fact, much of the developments in science, economics, and politics in the nineteenth century were also concerned with the new worlds revealed by…[Read more]
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Darko Suvin claims that science fiction is fundamentally concerned with “cognitive estrangement,” or the presence of some element in the story that transforms how its readers understand their world. In fact, much of the developments in science, economics, and politics in the nineteenth century were also concerned with the new worlds revealed by…[Read more]
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