Hi Raj!

Amazing project proposal idea! I think your proposal would be a great way to chronical the history we have been living the past 4-5 years. I can already see the droves of students working on school projects thanking the gods that this project exists for them to use as they research. It certainly would be a gargantuan task to put so much…[Read more]

Hey Brittany!

I think an interactive podcast about health and wellness in terms of disease prevention would be a great bridge between the, let’s face it, confusing and painful statistics research and the general public.

a podcast that can break down and really explain the numbers and the science behind diseases/sickness would go a long way…[Read more]

Hi Faith!

as someone who learned the ways of making (somewhat) better ramen through eggs and spices, I am not only slightly offended but am very much intrigued by your project proposal. i don’t live in a dorm (commuting for the win honestly) but I’ve had my fair share of cooking fails due mostly to plain inexperience. (like, i turned a soup…[Read more]

Hey Chris!

I really liked your blog post and it definitely raises some interesting questions. I, for one, know that if insta/snapchat/etc. started charging me for using it I would drop the apps like hot cakes. For many the idea of “losing connection” to friends and family far away don’t particularly bother me. If there is little chance I wil…[Read more]

Hey Rhiannon!

I love your blog post (fantastic memes btw) and I’m definitely up to debate what is an ins’t a digital public humanity. From what you describe it seems that Gould’s article could be considered a digital public humanity. Though it is indeed true that Gould is only remarking upon a DPH project, their work is still fitting the crite…[Read more]

Hey Leo!

I very much agree with your notes on potential design flaws and audience bases changing over time. Im specifically reminded of Facebook in terms of a changed audience-base. I remember when Facebook was first launched it was filled with young kids/teens, playing games like words-with-friends (the biggest rip-off of scrabble I’ve ever s…[Read more]

Hi Professor!

One of Gärdebo’s points about social media definitely struck home for me when thinking about my project proposal. He states that:

“Social media platforms shape knowledge production and dissemination as books or PDFs do, albeit in different forms and ways. How the content is thought through depends greatly on the format thro…[Read more]

Hi Faith!

I would absolutely say that Sci-Hub and other websites like it are illegal, simply because they ARE stealing. they’re doing the coding-equivalent of breaking and entering by messing with the firewalls and taking the articles/publications without permission. It IS wrong and I would say just as bad as watching a movie you know is…[Read more]

Hey Sara!

I absolutely love your topic and presentation of this awesome community, as one of many LGBTQ+ students at Stony Brook it’s great to see representation and support across the country.

I do have a small point of debate if you’d like to talk more about it. you say that this organization should be considered a “digital” public…[Read more]

Hi Shannon!

I, too, just recently got into podcasts, specifically one podcast at least. It’s called the Magnus Archives and is an amazing horror/thriller podcast. The way they title each episode is quite reminiscent of what we have found to be most engaging to audiences, the titles are usually 2-3 words that are central to the story, but are…[Read more]

Hey there!

I started thinking about my final proposal for the past few days and for the most part I was stumped, I tried to connect my project to my hobbies (crochet and dungeons and dragons mostly) but I was too quickly reminded of public humanities work that was already around like Critical Role (a YouTube/podcast dnd group) or the multiple…[Read more]

Hey Rhiannon!

thank you for commenting! I was thinking of ways they could be able to make JOTPY more accessible in other countries and, barring any government interference, it would be smart if they could hire/gain translators so the site could be read in multiple languages. it would certainly be a lot of work but if more people can read the…[Read more]

Hey Brittany!!

I love the article on the Baltimore Traces project you discuss in your blog post and I absolutely think it can serve as a great model for the public humanities in the future. I’ll try to make a clear list of what I like about it but I might get a bit rambly.

first off I really like that the projects are based on a very small…[Read more]

Hi Sara!

while I’m not a huge social media user I am someone who likes to casually listen to drama channels on the ol’ YouTube. your blog post instantly reminded me of the whole James Charles scandal that happened in 2019. the ‘news’ the drama channels were bringing would change by the hour as more of the story came to light, but even now I…[Read more]

Hi Faith!

I have to admit when I saw this title in the blog post list my first and immediate reaction was to show my partner (who was sitting next to me at the time) and have a shocked-type of giggle about it.

Reading about your dive into the podcast was even funnier as your reactions to my imagined thoughts were spot on! this is certainly…[Read more]

Hey Faith!

I think I’ll have to agree with you on that online-workload issue we had these past semesters due to the pandemic. the work/home life line has gotten quite blurred now that we’re not travelling to class anymore. I feel like that was a big contributor to the professor mentality of “well you have more free-time so this extra work…[Read more]

Hi Professor!

that’s a super interesting question and I definitely think my answer may change as we go through the course but at the moment I think there is some grey area on academic work being a public humanity. since I don’t have much of an anchor on this yet I try to relate what I do know/think to real world examples. my thoughts jumped to…[Read more]

The debate on academic publishing being considered a public humanity is definitely an interesting one, since most of us are quite new to learning the public humanities I think we have a unique viewpoint. I would go so far as to say that we as new humanity students are closer to being considered “the public” rather than being considered a hum…[Read more]