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Experimenting With The Future: Born Magazine, Multimedia, And The French Avant-Garde, Anmarie Trimble, Jennifer Grotz Jan 2012

Experimenting With The Future: Born Magazine, Multimedia, And The French Avant-Garde, Anmarie Trimble, Jennifer Grotz

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Born is an experimental online magazine that brings together writers and "new media" designers and artists, who have collaborated to create multimedia interpretations of poetry (and more rarely, short prose). As editors of one of the earliest, enduring literary publications on the Web, we often receive invitations to share our “vision” of Web poetics, literary multimedia, et cetera. This presents a problem—Born evolved without consciously intending to even focus on poetry (only our current incarnation), but rather with an intent to be a creative, collaborative community. As such our work and vision are shaped as much by the interests of …

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Study Guide For United In Anger: A History Of Act Up, Matt Brim Jan 2012

Study Guide For United In Anger: A History Of Act Up, Matt Brim

Open Educational Resources

The United in Anger Study Guide facilitates classroom and activist engagement with Jim Hubbard’s 2012 documentary, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. The Study Guide contains discussion sections, projects and exercises, and resources for further research about the activism of the New York chapter of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). The Study Guide is a free, interactive, multimedia resource for understanding the legacy of ACT UP, the film’s role in preserving that legacy, and its meaning for viewers' lives.

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Editor's Introduction: Playing For Keeps: Games And Cultural Resistance [Special Issue], Marc A. Ouellette, Jason Thompson Jan 2012

Editor's Introduction: Playing For Keeps: Games And Cultural Resistance [Special Issue], Marc A. Ouellette, Jason Thompson

English Faculty Publications

This edition is as much about Game Studies as it about the games being studied. At its heart there are really two impulses behind the collection of critical thought we have been fortunate enough to gather for this issue of Reconstruction. First, there is the sense that games can’t do anything. Second, there is the sense that games don’t do anything. Their origin (and the underlying biases) makes these sentiments particularly intriguing. In the simplest terms, these premises delineate competing camps, as well. Roger Ebert notoriously asserts that video games will never be art (Ebert). Similarly, and yet quite differently, …

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Listen, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Listen, Allison Marsh

Section 3: Imaging the Fast Moving

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Spotlight On Usc: Mechanical Engineering, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Spotlight On Usc: Mechanical Engineering, Allison Marsh

Section 3: Imaging the Fast Moving

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Influencing Art, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Influencing Art, Allison Marsh

Section 3: Imaging the Fast Moving

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Fact Or Fiction?, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Fact Or Fiction?, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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Spotlight On Usc: Department Of Art, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Spotlight On Usc: Department Of Art, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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Usc's Nanocenter, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Usc's Nanocenter, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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Art Versus Image, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Art Versus Image, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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Nano Imaging, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Nano Imaging, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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What Is Nanotechnology?, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

What Is Nanotechnology?, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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Nanotechnology In Everyday Life, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Nanotechnology In Everyday Life, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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Choosing An Instrument, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Choosing An Instrument, Allison Marsh

Section 5: Imaging at the Nano Scale

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The Sword And The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960, Aaron Gerow, Rea Amit, Ryan Cook, Samuel Good, Samuel Malissa, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, Takuya Tsunoda, David Dresser, Fumiaki Itakura Jan 2012

The Sword And The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960, Aaron Gerow, Rea Amit, Ryan Cook, Samuel Good, Samuel Malissa, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, Takuya Tsunoda, David Dresser, Fumiaki Itakura

Film Series Commentaries

“The Sword And The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960” was a groundbreaking collaboration between the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, marking the first time Japan’s national film archive had co-sponsored an event with a foreign university. The film series presented rare Japanese samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center, highlighting the abundant variety of Japan's most famous film genre. There are social critiques, melodramas, comedies, ghost films and even musicals, directed by some of the masters of Japanese cinema who, …

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Capturing Motion, Allison Marsh Jan 2012

Capturing Motion, Allison Marsh

Section 3: Imaging the Fast Moving

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Social Interaction At The Maya Site Of Copan, Honduras: A Least Cost Approach To Configurational Analysis, Heather Richards-Rissetto Jan 2012

Social Interaction At The Maya Site Of Copan, Honduras: A Least Cost Approach To Configurational Analysis, Heather Richards-Rissetto

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

In this article, I employ least cost paths using GIS to measure the relationship between site configuration and social connectivity at the ancient Maya site of Copan, Honduras. I investigate two questions. First, did people of different social classes experience varying degrees of social connectivity? Second, did people living in different parts of the city experience difference degrees of social connectivity? Ultimately, the goal is modify traditional configurational analysis using least cost analysis (LCA) to identify how social hierarchy was embedded in landscapes and how ancient people may have strategically manipulated landscapes to structure social interaction and community organization.

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Where’S The Pedagogy? The Role Of Teaching And Learning In The Digital Humanities, Stephen Brier Jan 2012

Where’S The Pedagogy? The Role Of Teaching And Learning In The Digital Humanities, Stephen Brier

Publications and Research

The Digital Humanities (DH) has focused narrowly on digital research methods and projects and digital publication efforts. Yet DH has also had a significant, if under recognized, impact on classroom pedagogy. This chapter evaluates the ways DH practices, embodied in a series of pedagogy projects at the City University of York (CUNY), have been used to reshape teaching and learning in college classrooms.

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Topic Modeling And Figurative Language, Lisa M. Rhody Jan 2012

Topic Modeling And Figurative Language, Lisa M. Rhody

Publications and Research

Located at the center of Jorie Graham’s collection The End of Beauty, “Self Portrait as Hurray and Delay” crafts a portrait of the artist, poised at a precarious moment in which thought begins to take shape. Like Penelope, Graham entertains the illusion, if only momentarily, of a choice between bringing a creative impulse into form or allowing it to come undone. A weaver of language, Graham subtly, deftly, but unsuccessfully attempts to delay the inevitable moment in poetic creation in which complexity of thought adopts form through language, and so realized is also reduced. In The End of Beauty, the …

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Politeness Strategies In Wiki-Mediated Communication Of Efl Collaborative Writing Tasks, Mimi Li Jan 2012

Politeness Strategies In Wiki-Mediated Communication Of Efl Collaborative Writing Tasks, Mimi Li

English Faculty Research

Informed by the theory of social constructivism and computer-mediated communication (CMC), wiki-mediated collaborative writing has been increasingly implemented in second or foreign language classes. However, to date, no research has addressed students’ interaction and negotiation of their social relationship during wiki-mediated collaboration. Drawing on politeness theory, particularly Brown and Levinson (1987)’s taxonomy of politeness strategies, this study analyzed the wiki-mediated discourse of one collaborative writing group in a Chinese EFL context. This particular writing group consisted of three EFL college students at a southwestern university in China. This article examined specifically how this small group actively engaged in social interaction …

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Using Amazon Mechanical Turk To Transcribe Historical Handwritten Documents, Andrew Lang, Joshua Rio-Ross Oct 2011

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk To Transcribe Historical Handwritten Documents, Andrew Lang, Joshua Rio-Ross

College of Science and Engineering Faculty Research and Scholarship

The developing “information age” is continually unraveling new ways of discovering, presenting and sharing information. Most new academic material is digitally formatted upon its creation and is thus easy to find and query. However, there remains a good deal of material from times prior to the “information age” that has yet to be converted to digital form. Much of this material can be found in library collections—whether academic, public or private—and thus remains available only to a limited number of locals or willing-and-able sojourners. Using OCR technology, most typeset documents can be digitized and made available online; and there are …

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The September 11 Digital Archive, Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown Oct 2011

The September 11 Digital Archive, Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown

Publications and Research

This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP) at the City University of New York Graduate Center to preserve and present via the Internet digital resources related to the epochal events of …

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What Is Digital Humanities And…, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Jul 2011

What Is Digital Humanities And…, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

SWITCH

This article explores the evolving identity and role of Digital Humanities, especially within English departments. The author reflects on the history and terminology of the field and addresses how DH is a response to the growing tensions that are shaping academia.

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The Art Of Tammy Mike Laufer, Maayan Glaser-Koren Jul 2011

The Art Of Tammy Mike Laufer, Maayan Glaser-Koren

SWITCH

This article explores the hybrid digital artwork of Tammy Mike Laufer, whose pieces incorporate video art and digital painting references from various art movements. Her art challenges viewers to increase their awareness about the nature of art and its social relevance.

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The Art Of Sharon Paz, Dörte Ilsabé Denneman Jul 2011

The Art Of Sharon Paz, Dörte Ilsabé Denneman

SWITCH

This article describes Sharon Paz’s performances, theatrical installations, and video works, which combine themes of war, entertainment, and everyday life.

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Artists & Virtual Environment, Oberon Onmura Jul 2011

Artists & Virtual Environment, Oberon Onmura

SWITCH

This article examines how artists in 3D virtual environments develop “native” art practices that utilize the medium’s unique tools and materials. The author distinguishes between physical-world art adapted for virtual display and art created specifically for these spaces.

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Odyssey Art And Performance Simulator, Lizsolo Mathilde Jul 2011

Odyssey Art And Performance Simulator, Lizsolo Mathilde

SWITCH

This article describes Odyssey, a virtual art and performance space in Second Life, and its role in fostering mixed-reality works that merge physical and virtual experiences.

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Born-Digital Literature, What Is It?, Pollyanna Macchiano Jul 2011

Born-Digital Literature, What Is It?, Pollyanna Macchiano

SWITCH

This article explores the concept of born-digital literature, described as an artifact designed specifically for digital platforms, which cannot be separated from its medium. It introduces ideas about digital fiction, including how it differs from traditional print and why its interactive nature leads to new ways of reading and interpreting.

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On Building, Steve Ramsay Jul 2011

On Building, Steve Ramsay

SWITCH

In this reflection, the author revisits a controversial statement he made about the nature of Digital Humanities.

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The Rhetoric Of Digital Humanities, Alex Reid Jul 2011

The Rhetoric Of Digital Humanities, Alex Reid

SWITCH

This article explores how the term Digital Humanities has evolved and how that evolution reflects deeper rhetorical choices. While DH and "humanities computing" were once used interchangeably, the author argues that the shift in language may have been deliberate to appeal to broader audiences.

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