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Melanie Walsh deposited The Crowdsourced “Classics” and the Revealing Limits of Goodreads Data Melanie Walsh on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
This presentation draws from forthcoming work on the Goodreads “classics.”
Goodreads is the largest social networking site for readers on the internet (90 million users) and a subsidiary of Amazon. The “classics” are one of the most active Goodreads categories, with some of the most rated and reviewed books across the entire site. Why are the…[Read more]
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Fiona Carter deposited Analyzing Border Crossings in Contemporary Irish Literature with Literary Mapping on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
Our project analyzes works by Belfast writers Anne Devlin and Lucy Caldwell to develop a spatio-temporal analysis of the ways in which women are depicted as crossing borders in public space, particularly during the Troubles. We used GIS, and specifically the open-source geodata and software QGIS and OpenStreetMaps. To visualize the external or…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited A Historical narrative of the British Colonial Administration’s Clamp down on Witch finding Shrines amongst the Asante People of the Gold Coast in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe paper focuses on the issue of witchcraft at the Gold Coast and Asante in particular. Information from archival sources and secondary sources has been gleaned to form a historical narrative covering the period 1907 to 1940. The dilemma of the indigenous people concerning witchcraft, the attempts of Indigenous Priest Healers (IPH) to cure and…[Read more]
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