Historians are often confronted with the challenge of defining words or ideas in an historically appropriate manner. Language evolves; words lose some meanings and gain others over time, and it is important, when examining the past, for the historian to ensure that their analysis accurately reflects the language in use during the chosen period of…[Read more]

In 1971, Paul Fortier created a computer program to save significant time in analyzing French literary theme words connected to semantic fields. The system, aptly called THEME, harnessed the capabilities of computer-generated keyword concordances with frequency and distribution calculations to create research reports for user-defined literary…[Read more]

The central objective of this paper is to analyze anti-immigrant rhetoric towards Syrian refugees in the framework of Barker’s (2001) ‘new racism’ (cultural racism) on YouTube. This mediated-cultural racism is, in principle, based on the idea that third world migrants are a group of “othered-others,” who disrupt the taken-for-granted stable na…[Read more]

This paper describes the background and development of Check Your Privilege (https://privilege.huc.knaw.nl/), a digital privilege game designed to create awareness in the context of diversity and inclusion workshops.

In this presentation we quantify the signs of abandonment to measure the planned obsolesce of online digital humanities projects. We intend this study to be a step forward towards better preservation strategies for the planned obsolesce of online digital humanities projects.

Loyalist Migrations is a spatial history project in its early stages. It visualizes the movement of exiles and refugees who fled the United States in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The project is a partnership between the Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the Map and Data Centre at Western, and the United Empire L…[Read more]

While a range of approaches and techniques for linguistic annotation and classification are currently available, they have not been designed to handle multimodal texts with a pronounced visual dimension such as posters, webpages, or moving images (i.e., film, TV). In this paper, we present an approach for annotation and classification of…[Read more]

Images present in paper for CSDH 2020 but available here as reference.

“The Culture of Curiosity Project” studies the discourse and cultural context of early modern collections of rarities and curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700. Central to this research is the Digital Ark, a web archive of some fifty XML-encoded catalogues, inventories, and records of these collections. Our focus in phase two of this pro…[Read more]

This conference paper represents a work in progress on interface in the videogame Life Is Strange: Before the Storm’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. By observing the ways in which the user is able to make Shakespeare’s work their own, this paper argues that the failure and reimagining of the early modern work is celebrated and that in…[Read more]

What worked and what didn’t work as I pursued a History PhD later in life than would have been wise. Distilled into seven lessons.

Historians of electronics (and subjects that depend on electronics like communications, instrumentation, and computation) have access to a vast digitized archive of primary sources. The majority of these sources are freely available. Turkel and various collaborators have used web crawlers to collect millions of pages of these documents to subject…[Read more]