A discussion of reading and critical discussion practices in an online book club organized during the COVID pandemic.

A multi–part paper for the panel on June 1st. We discuss a project to gather discourse on COVID-19 from press briefings, Twitter and other sources. We discuss how we have analyzed a first 6-month span of the gathered discourse and present some preliminary findings.

In recent years, there has been an explosion of data. One approach to big data is visualization. Data can be transformed in aesthetic ways to reveal its truths and to make it appear accessible to humans. What often gets ignored in visualization is the context of consumption of visualizations. Increasingly visualizations are showing up on data…[Read more]

The computational affordances of digital tools and methods have enabled new avenues of research in translation studies, allowing scholars to examine translation decisions at scale through the creation and analysis of parallel corpora.

This paper will focus on multiple French translation of Ann M. Martin’s series, The Baby-Sitters Club. This s…[Read more]

Mood boards are a collection of images that support design activities. They are a standard tool in the designer’s toolbox, often used for the design team to explore the problem being solved, the user context and a means of setting the aesthetic tone for the project. The content of mood boards can vary widely, from colour ideas to abstract p…[Read more]

Cantillation notes (“taamim” or “trop”) direct readers of the Hebrew Bible as to how to chant the text, and serve as a form of syntactic and logical commentary on the text and can be deduced using machine learning and Neural Networks.

Cantillation notes (“taamim” or “trop”) direct readers of the Hebrew Bible as to how to chant the text, and serve as a form of syntactic and logical commentary on the text that can be deduced using neural networks and machine learning.

This study will assess the role of social media in the construction of social and community identity. The study is based on the Nyishi community, one of the indigenous communities from Arunachal Pradesh, the North-eastern state of India. I am keenly interested in the participation of Nyishi people on Facebook because most of the people from this…[Read more]

The Hebrew Biblical corpus is composed of text of different genres. There are narrative sections, genealogical accounts, poetry, commands as to daily and seasonal ritual practices, legal systems, details of sacrifices, and instructions on how to construct the Tabernacle. The content, and often style, of each of these differs from the others, and…[Read more]