Archiving Usenet: Adopting an Ethics of Care
This is the fourth in series of blog posts by 2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame on the progress of his dissertation, “Talk Amongst [...]
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Jan 2017
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Dec 2016
Listening for the Static
This is the third in series of blog posts by 2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame on the progress of his dissertation, “Talk Amongst [...]
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Nov 2016
Visualizing Poster Activity on Usenet
This is the second in series of blog posts by 2016-17 Winnemore Digital Dissertation Fellow Avery Dame on the progress of his dissertation, “Talk Amongst [...]
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Oct 2016
A Block List Against Hate
Twitter User Identifiers Two weeks ago a group of students, scholars and activists gathered in the evening at MITH for an event called [...]
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Oct 2016
“If it gets us talking, it can’t be bad:” Building the Transgender Usenet Archive
“If only one life is saved by the creation of this group, wouldn't it be worth it? It's only a communications medium, and people are [...]
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Oct 2016
Come join MITH Thursday 10/13 for a Night Against Hate!
Please join us at MITH (and remotely) this Thursday to gather with others looking to learn from each other about how to investigate and thwart [...]
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Oct 2016
Night Against Hate
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Extremist Files provides a list of known hate groups. At our Night Against Hate event we will collaboratively try to link the SLC list to social media accounts. This list can then be used by researchers here at UMD and elsewhere to examine the effect that these groups are having online. In addition, we hope to use this event to learn from each other about emerging tools and techniques of self care while working online.
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Mar 2016
Henry Lovejoy Digital Dialogue
Knowing when and where people came from within Africa, and when and where they went in diaspora, is a major research question affecting the [...]
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Jan 2016
Documenting the Now: Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content
Documenting the Now responds to the public’s use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars and archivists seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving digital content.
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Jan 2016
Digital Humanities Incubator 2014–15: Researching Ferguson
The 2014 – 2015 Digital Humanities Incubator, entitled “Researching Ferguson,” is a campus-wide initiative which aims to provide leadership and training on event-based social media data and network analysis. These workshops are part of the broader, university-wide effort to engage the #BlackLivesMatter movement at the University of Maryland.