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Full-Text Articles in Digital Humanities
Adarna: Remediating Philippine Source Texts Through Video Games, Philip Adrian L. Gungab
Adarna: Remediating Philippine Source Texts Through Video Games, Philip Adrian L. Gungab
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
This paper will explore the possibilities of using video games as a means of remediating Philippine source texts. This begins by defining Philippine Source texts based on Dr. Joyce Arriola’s book Pelikulang Komiks: Toward a Theory of Filipino Film Adaptation (2019) and understanding how remediation changes perception of the material through concepts defined in Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin’s book, Remediation (2000). Video games will later be explored as a form of new media in the 21st century, and how media convergence and globalization has brought it to its current state. This paper will then analyze Adarna (2015), a video …
Weather In Middle-Earth Or Tolkien: The Weather-Master?, Jonas Mertens
Weather In Middle-Earth Or Tolkien: The Weather-Master?, Jonas Mertens
Journal of Tolkien Research
Abstract
This article attempts to shed light on the use of weather in general and meteorological expressions in The Lord of the Rings, as J. R. R. Tolkien is well known to be a writer for whom the environment and natural world is closely intertwined with his storytelling. Both a manual count and a count which a digital text analysis tool were combined to find the frequency of previously selected weather terms. In total, more than 2,000 references were found in the books, with the words ‘sun’, ‘wind’ and ‘cold’ being the most abundant. Meteorological expressions are frequently encountered in …
Making The Subconscious Conscious - Showcasing Unresolved Childhood Trauma Through Animation, Alexis Hunter
Making The Subconscious Conscious - Showcasing Unresolved Childhood Trauma Through Animation, Alexis Hunter
All Theses
The focus of this work is to shed light on unresolved childhood trauma that can contribute to mental hardships - whether people are aware of its presence in their lives or not. In this paper, I will discuss childhood trauma, its impact on adult life when left unresolved, self-parenting as a method to manage it, and how it is portrayed in various media. Drawing inspiration from my research on trauma and visual storytelling, I will present a proof-of-concept for a 2D animated short film, Strongholds, which visualizes the internal mental struggles through the character dynamics of the personifications of the …
Sites Of Cultural Production In Response To Mass Extinction, Stephanie S. Turner, Evamarie Lindahl, Tara Nicholson
Sites Of Cultural Production In Response To Mass Extinction, Stephanie S. Turner, Evamarie Lindahl, Tara Nicholson
Animal Studies Journal
This conversation, mediated by Tara Nicholson, considers Stephanie Turner and EvaMarie Lindahl’s research in cultural representations of extinction and investigations of more-than-human forms of storytelling through an art historical lens. In response to Lori Gruen’s classification, extinction is a distinctive loss of ‘animal cultures’. It is more than biodiversity destruction or a static inventory of a species’ death. Nonhuman ways of building bonds, reproducing, teaching offspring, constructing homes and mourning the dead, are all systems of knowledge lost in extinction (Gruen et al. 2017). This conversation offers compassionate ways of bearing witness to species destruction and a space for empathy …
Brujas Of Yesterday, Their Legacy Today, Maggi Delgado
Brujas Of Yesterday, Their Legacy Today, Maggi Delgado
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Brujas of Yesterday, their Legacy Today explores the impact of witch narratives on the lives of Latin American women. This bilingual interactive space collects both myths passed down through generations, ones still taught today, and stories of real women who bear the consequences of the legendary bruja character. Like witch hunts of women who did not fit the model of a “good woman,” the now correctly named femicides are examples of the prevailing misogynistic and anti-feminist rhetoric plaguing Latin American cultures diasporas. With a digital interactive map and timeline, the project aims to breathe new life into these old tales, …
Using Visual Storytelling To Design Solutions-Based Approaches To Homelessness, Peggy Peattie
Using Visual Storytelling To Design Solutions-Based Approaches To Homelessness, Peggy Peattie
Dissertations
Despite millions of dollars spent over several decades on assistance programs, the nation’s homeless population has increased for the last four years in a row. The number of people reporting as homeless for the first time doubled in San Diego between June 2019 and June 2020. Trying to impose a one-size-fits-all model of care on a population comprised of unique individuals has resulted in many homeless opting for the street rather than subjugating themselves to rules they feel do not treat them with respect and dignity. Yet, the perspectives of homeless individuals are excluded from decision-making dialogue around policies and …
“‘Even If You’Re Not Going To Plant, Use Your Water’: Forging Identity Through Cultural Practices”, Rafael A. Martínez, Froilán Orozco, Nancy C. Canales-Navarrete
“‘Even If You’Re Not Going To Plant, Use Your Water’: Forging Identity Through Cultural Practices”, Rafael A. Martínez, Froilán Orozco, Nancy C. Canales-Navarrete
Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest
The Pecos Valley Series is an oral history project developed over two years whose aim was to capture the cultural practices in agriculture and activism that is evident to the cultural identities of the northern New Mexico region. Participants include folks whose family genealogy has been tied to the Valley for hundreds of years, while also including transplant perspectives to demonstrate the complexity of placemaking. The Pecos Valley Series, was produced in what Nuevo Mexicano scholars term Querencia- a deep love for place and its history. These are themes and topics which are prevalent and relevant in defining the Southwest …
Pathways To The Native Storyteller: A Method To Enable Computational Story Understanding, Aramide O. Kehinde
Pathways To The Native Storyteller: A Method To Enable Computational Story Understanding, Aramide O. Kehinde
College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations
The primary objective of this thesis is to develop a method that uses machine learning algorithms to enable computational story understanding. This research is conducted with the aim of establishing a system called the Native Storyteller that plans and creates storytelling experiences for human users. The paper first establishes the desired capabilities of the system and then deep dives into how to enable story understanding, which is the core ability the system needs to function. As such, the research places emphasis on natural language processing and its application to solving key problems in this context. Namely, machine representation of story …
“Qualia”: The Subjective Qualities Of Sound As Experience Of The Self, Vanessa Ribeiro Rodrigues
“Qualia”: The Subjective Qualities Of Sound As Experience Of The Self, Vanessa Ribeiro Rodrigues
RadioDoc Review
How do we construct the perception of the world and Others through sounds? How are we able to express the myriad of feelings inside ourselves into an intelligible structure in order to be understood? What is the amount of interference in the way we express those [translated] feelings? These are some of the subtle questions raised by “Qualia”, a five-episode radio feature by Spanish artist and performer Charo Calvo, aired in 2016 by ABC Radio National’s Soundproof show in Australia.
The name “Qualia” evokes the philosophical theory of an internal and subjective component of sense and mental perceptions, which are …
Mdocs Poster-Fall 2018, Course Offerings, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-Fall 2018, Course Offerings, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Fall 2018 Course Offerings:
Documentary Fundamentals:
- Documentary Storytelling
- Intro to Audio Documentary
- Documentary and Narrative Screenwriting
- Storytelling: Video
- Storytelling: Game Development
- Storytelling: Mapping
- The Artist Interview
- Festival Curation
Player-Response: On The Nature Of Interactive Narratives As Literature, Lee Feldman
Player-Response: On The Nature Of Interactive Narratives As Literature, Lee Feldman
English (MA) Theses
In recent years, having evolved beyond solely play-based interactions, it is now possible to analyze video games alongside other narrative forms, such as novels and films. Video games now involve rich stories that require input and interaction on behalf of the player. This level of agency likens video games to a kind of modern hypertext, networking and weaving various narrative threads together, something which traditional modes of media lack. When examined from the lens of reader-response criticism, this interaction deepens even further, acknowledging the player’s experience as a valid interpretation of a video game’s plot. The wide freedom of choice …
Mdocs Poster-2018-04-02, Palestinian Voices: Lyd In Exile, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-04-02, Palestinian Voices: Lyd In Exile, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
April 2, 6pm
Free and open to the public
Location: Somers Room
The Palestinian Voices series is organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office
Join us for a talk by Rami Younis and Sarah Friedland, and a screening of their work-in-progress documentary Lyd In Exile. Younis and Friedland have spent over three years researching and filming Lyd In Exile, and are in post-production. They will screen clips from their film and …
Mdocs Poster-Spring 2018, Course List, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-Spring 2018, Course List, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
Spring 2018 Classes Documentary Studies
Production Fundamentals
- DS 116A - Storytelling: Map Design and Spatial Visualization (1 cr)
- DS 116B - 360 Degree Audio Video and Photogrammetry (2 cr) -- NEW!!
Documentary Studies
- DS 201 - Principles of Documentary (3 cr)
- DS 251D - Documentary Film Production: Form and Content (4 cr)
- DS 251C - Documenting Makers:Writing and Filming Artist Profiles (3 cr)
- DS 251C - Participatory Documentary, Socially Engaged Art and Community Media (3 cr) -- NEW!!
- DS 302D - From Story to Screen: Crew-Based Film Doc and Narrative Production (4 cr)
- DS 351B - Documentary Practice in Photography …
Mdocs Poster-2018-04-01, Zines Workshop, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-04-01, Zines Workshop, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
April 4, 12pm
Location:BerhardAtrium
Free and open to the public
On Wednesday, April 4, from 12:00 – 5:00 pm, join Evelyn Wang '19, Museum Store Associate, and Sean Fuller, Store and Publications Manager, for a zine making workshop focusing on the history of zines. Participants will learn two zine making methods: a simple one-page zine and a fold and staple pamphlet style. All materials will be provided.
This event is part of a series of drop-in zine making workshops occurring every Wednesday in April from 12:00 – 5:00 pm. The workshops will be held in the exhibition to be with …
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-27, Jason Houston, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-27, Jason Houston, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (ET) Palamountain Hall Davis Auditorium
"Exploring how we live on the planet”
Photographer Jason Houston has spent over 20 years photographing community, culture, and how we live on the planet for editorial and NGO clients and personal projects. His engaged, long-term approach to complex issues captures informed, authentic narratives that help educate the public and guide social and environmental change. Recent projects include a global survey of conservation enterprises and a campaign for the protection of 10 million hectares in the Amazon for indigenous people in isolation and initial contact. He …
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-22, No Mas Bebes, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-22, No Mas Bebes, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
No Más Bebés tells the story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Marginalized and fearful, many of these mothers spoke no English, and charged that they had been coerced into tubal ligation — having their tubes tied — by doctors during the late stages of labor. Often the procedure was performed after asking the mothers under duress.
The mothers’ cause …
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-21, Free To Rock, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-21, Free To Rock, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET) PALMTN Davis Auditorium
FREE TO ROCK is a documentary film directed by 4-time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Rock & Roll spread like an uncontrollable virus across Eastern Europe despite Communist attempts to outlaw it. Thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western freedoms and embraced this music as the Sound of Freedom, helped fuel the nonviolent implosion of the Soviet regime. Free to Rock features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West and the Soviet Union …
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-02, Oral History For Social Justice With Amy Starecheski, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-02, Oral History For Social Justice With Amy Starecheski, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
TALK: Curating Oral History for the 21st Century: Listening Out Loud, Listening with the Eyes and the Body
Thursday, March 1, 3:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Skidmore College, Filene Hall, Room 119
The talk will highlight the dilemmas and the potential of curating oral history for a broad contemporary audience, highlighting Columbia University’s Oral History Master’s Program as an example of an application that bridges archival and public use, media and the textual, audio walking tours as a means to return aural/oral history to place and the body, and a few recent short video and documentary projects by OHMA students, …
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-06, Issam Nassar, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-06, Issam Nassar, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
February 6, 6pm
Location: Payne Room
Free and open to the public.
In conjunction with the exhibition This Place
Part of the Palestinian Voices series, organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office
Join us for a lecture by Issam Nassar on the history of Palestinian photography. Nassar is a historian of the Modern Middle East and of Photography at Illinois State University. His work focuses on the modern Middle East and the history …
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-05, Voice As Documentary Audibility With Pooja Rangan, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-05, Voice As Documentary Audibility With Pooja Rangan, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Monday, February 5, 2018 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM (ET) PALMTN Emerson Auditorium In the field of documentary, voice, rather than point of view, is the prevailing metaphor for a filmmaker’s unique perspective, signaling the documentary genre’s textual emphasis on spoken words, as well as its social ethic of “giving voice.” Rangan’s talk will unpack the humanitarian resonances of this metaphor, as elaborated in her book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke UP 2017), reframing voice as an audibility: a product of auditory forms and practices such as documentary that discipline unspoken norms of speaking and listening. Her talk …
Mdocs Poster-2018 Spring, Photography Workshop With Eric Jenks, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018 Spring, Photography Workshop With Eric Jenks, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Friday, February 16th, 2018 @ 2-4pm:
Document your world: Learn how to compose a compelling photograph using your own camera
Friday, April 13th, 2018 @ 2-4:30pm:
Photo Editing: Bring 3-5 pictures for an introduction to editing with Photoshop
Join Skidmore alum and photographer Eric Jenks for a hands-on workshop on taking and editing compelling photos with any camera.
No experience required!
These workshops are for anyone planning to study abroad, travel over spring break, or explore or document closer to home, and those who have photos ready to share.
Mdocs Poster- 2017-12-06, Wspn An Alternative History, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster- 2017-12-06, Wspn An Alternative History, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
No abstract provided.
Mdocs Poster-2017-11-12, Pass The Mic, Op Excellence: Stories In Color, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-11-12, Pass The Mic, Op Excellence: Stories In Color, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
Join Pass the Mic as we dedicate a night to celebrate the excellence and talent of documentary storytellers who are also shining members of the Opportunity Program community. In honor of their powerful work as filmmakers and photographers, there will be a screening of their pieces and a discussion afterwards, led by our very own co-hosts, Cristal and Bri. We hope to see you there!
Featured works of the night:
A Black Womyns’ self-esteem is terrorized before she is even made aware that she has one. "The Miseducation of the Black Womyn", directed by Maryam Dewitt '18, is a three-part …
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-24, Hi-Phi Nation With Barry Lam, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-24, Hi-Phi Nation With Barry Lam, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
Philosophy through Sound and Story: Hi-Phi Nation with Barry Lam
Tue, October 24 @ 7pm, Davis Aud
Hi-Phi Nation is the first sound and story-driven show about philosophy, weaving philosophy with narrative storytelling, investigative journalism, and sound design. The first season was produced out of Duke University on the Humanities Writ-Large Fellowship by Barry Lam, associate professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. Now in its second season, Every Hi-Phi Nation episode begins with a story from everyday life, current events, the law, history, science, or the arts, and pulls the big ideas of philosophy out of the story.
Barry Lam …
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-13, Documentary On Human Trafficking Screened At Bow Tie Cinema, Wendy Liberatore
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-13, Documentary On Human Trafficking Screened At Bow Tie Cinema, Wendy Liberatore
MDOCS Publications
"Documentary on human trafficking to be screened at Bow Tie Criterion"
The Times Union
October 23, 2017
Author: Wendy Liberatore
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-22, Saratoga Springs Conference, Staff Report
Mdocs Publication-2017-10-22, Saratoga Springs Conference, Staff Report
MDOCS Publications
"Saratoga Springs conference, film screening to target sex trafficking"
The Saratogian
October 22, 2017
Author: Staff Report
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-19, The Video Interview Workshop, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-19, The Video Interview Workshop, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
Master Class: The Video Interview
Thu, October 19, 4-6pm, Lib 113
Learn how to set up a video interview. Work with MDOCS instructor Ron Taylor from Skidmore Media Services to learn everything from a three-point lighting set-up to the basics of running a DSLR camera.
This is a hands-on workshop open to anyone in the Skidmore community.
This hands-on training session is a must-have knowledge base for all students planning on creating media work now and in the future Hosted by Media & Film Studies and MDOCS.
Mdocs Postcard-2017-10-18, Networking Night, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Postcard-2017-10-18, Networking Night, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
No abstract provided.
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-13, Poster Design 101 Workshop, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-13, Poster Design 101 Workshop, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
Poster Design 101
Li 113
Friday, October 13, 2017
2:00pm-3:00pm
An intro to Adobe InDesign- Learn how to catch more eyes in Case Walkway!
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-10, Untouchable, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-10-10, Untouchable, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
"Untouchable" Film Screening with Meerkat Media
Tue, October 10 @ 6:30pm, Emerson Aud
Followed by a panel discussion led by Meerkat Media
ABOUT THE FILM:
When the most powerful lobbyist in Florida discovers that the nanny has sexually abused his daughter, he harnesses his extraordinary political power to pass the toughest sex offender laws in the nation. UNTOUCHABLE chronicles his crusade, and its impact on the lives of several of the 800,000 people forced to live under the kinds of laws he has championed.