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The Short Analysis #2 is the second short critique of a given project, website,
The Short Analysis #2 is the second short critique of a given project, website, archive, etc (below) integrating concepts and models from our DHSS theoretical readings (below). Whichever digital project, archive, game, experience, etc, you choose, you MUST provide screen caps of the features, details, components, you discuss.
NOTE: Do NOT write on the same project you wrote on for Assignment #1.
3 pages of text analysis, double-spaced, 12 pt. font of your analysis. The Works Cited and the Screen Caps or Figures do not count towards your 3 pages of text analysis.
The number of screen caps / images is up to you. APA Citation Style required. Title your screen caps and images so what each is is clear. Each title should have key citation information.
Choose a project from one of the many included in class discussion and provide an analysis with reference to one of the following models, set of characteristics, components, functions, or design methodologies. Your analysis should discuss aspects of design (formal components or processes) and the effects (what you do & what you feel) resulting from the design for you as the user / interactor. You can use 1st person as that makes sense to refer to YOUR experience navigating X. Each of these essays raises additional questions, concepts, and arguments of interest. You can develop your focus beyond what I have noted below.
MOST IMPORTANT – make sure you provide supporting details to illustrate what you argue are the features or characteristics of a given project or website. Saying something is “expressive” or “qualitative” without detailing why and how is an empty statement and that lack of detail will lower your grade into the Cs. You need to demonstrate you understand the work in detail, and that you know how and why something is X. You do this by providing illustrating details as your supporting evidence.
in Drucker’s model: how might X project illustrate what Drucker defines as the three components of digital / computational projects “materials, processing, presentation”?
in the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0’s criteria: how might X project illustrate “qualitative, interpretive, experiential, emotive, generative” characteristics and practices?
in Murray’s model: how might X project illustrate what Murray defines as the shift from “additive to expressive” characteristics and practices?
in McLuhan’s model(s): how does X project, technology, platform etc illustrate McLuhan’s argument that “the medium is the message,” that “first, we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us,” that X project technology, platform, etc can be understood as an anti-environment illuminating what has become naturalized (earlier media environments, earlier technologies), other aspects of McLuhan’s theorizing you find helpful.
in McPherson’s model of the “multimodal scholar”:“How do you ‘experience’ or ‘feel’ an argument in a more immersive and sensory-rich space?” “Can scholarship show as well as tell?” “Will representing data differently change the ways we understand, collect, or interpret it?” “What happens to argument in a nonlinear environment?”
in Fan’s analysis: how might you infer the algorithmic biases from the content displayed by X project, website, or platform when the “code is closed”?
in our ongoing criteria discussed in class – how might X project illustrate a distinctive or a very familiar approach to working with data, design, medium/media user experience, the organization of content, and consider any limitations that you encounter.
In addition, you might consider the following questions, starting with the landing page:
How do you know what to do / how to navigate the webpage or project?
Are the affordances clear or do you have to explore?
How does the design inform your understanding of the content (medium and message)?
How is the content curated? organized? tagged? traversed?
Is X project clear in its data attribution and provenance? Are there privacy concerns? Would you challenge the claims of X project?
What works well and what doesn’t work well? How might you redesign aspects of X? Is X successful in its explicit or inferred goals?
Minimum 2 secondary sources required. All digital projects, primary and secondary sources need citations.
The critical readings discussed to date are:
Drucker, Presner, et al (2008),“The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0” (PDF)
Drucker (2021), “Digital Humanities Overview” (Ch.1, 1-18) (PDF)
Introduction to McLuhan: excerpts – ‘The Medium is the Message’ (PDF)
Hayles (2012) “How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies” (PDF)
McPherson, “Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities” (PDF)
Bush (1945), “As We May Think” (PDF)
McLuhan (1966), “The Invisible Environment” (PDF)
Fan (2023), “Reverse Engineering the Gendered Design of Amazon’s Alexa: Methods in Testing Closed-Source Code in Grey and Black Box Systems” (PDF)
Projects explored to date are: AI. A Love Story.Links to an external site.
The Shelley-Godwin Archive
http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/Links to an external site.
Information is Beautiful – > Discuss a specific project!
– https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/593-information-is-beautiful-awards-2022-the-winnersLinks to an external site.
Manovich, Selfie CityLinks to an external site.
Google Ngram Viewer
Wiesenbaum’s Eliza Chatbot, Eliza https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/
InflectionAI’s Pi.Ai
Afternoon: A StoryLinks to an external site.
Secret GardenLinks to an external site.
Lilli Elbe Digital ArchiveLinks to an external site.
Quentin VerCetty Mission Sankofa AwakeningLinks to an external site.
The NFB’s https://bear71vr.nfb.ca/Links to an external site.
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Academic expectations regarding citations for a 3rd-year university course:
All course work submitted should conform to APA Style, including in-text citations WITH page numbers for all references with the accepted exception for the broad premise of a given work. Submissions without in-text citations, properly formatted, with page numbers for the efficient retrieval of the source material will be graded 0%. All assignments require an accurate Works Cited with correct, relevant entries. If entries are spurious, concocted, irrelevant or are missing, the grade given will be 0%.
My example of the format require, Bear 71, is here Download hereand for Mission Sankofa Awakening is here Download here. Work that fails to meet academic standards may result in an Academic Integrity Review and a possible Formal Report to the Academic Integrity Office. There will be no ‘redo’ opportunity. The grade will remain 0%.
Make sure to consult the APA website exclusively.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples
I’ll also attach Assignment 1 so you don’t write on the same project on this assignment. (Plus, I’ll show you the feedback I got from the prof)
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