Saturday Schedule
2017
Saturday, November 4th
8:15 AM

Collaborating with Strangers (CoLAB) Workshops: Jumpstarting Partnerships and Creative Ideas

Bess de Farber

CB1-113

8:15 AM - 11:15 AM

This proposed (1) plenary session Collaborating with Strangers in the Digital Humanities, and follow-up (2) Collaborating with Strangers Workshops Training-in-a-Box, a "how-to" companion workshop sponsored by the Procter & Gamble Higher Education Fund, will share time-tested facilitative processes for jumpstarting new community partnerships, exposing hidden resources, and generating creative ideas in libraries, classrooms, nonprofits, and conferences.

{Craft, Game} Play 2017

Anne Sullivan
Gillian Smith

CB1-112

8:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Games have much to learn from craft, and vice versa. Craft is collaborative, open-ended, creative, meditative, and often focus on visual aesthetic goals. Games can be competitive, strategic or luck-based, and focus on player engagement. This workshop aims to bring these communities closer together by looking at the similarities and differences between craft-play and game-play.

Digital Epistemologies; Engaging the Public

Ashely Byock
Tassie Gniady
David Kloster

CB1-105

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Learning / Knowing / Having / Sharing: Digital Epistemologies, Spaces of Learning, and Scalar (Ashley Byock, Tassie Gniady and David Kloster)

Engaging the Public: Virtual Reality, Photogrammetry, and Accessibility (Tassie Gniady and David Kloster)

H-Net & Digital Peer Review; Tracing New Possibilities

Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida
Yelena Kalinsky

CB1-318

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

H-Net & Digital Peer Review (Robert Cassanello and Yelena Kalinsky)

Tracing New Possibilities for Research and Collaboration (Kyle Bohunicky, Melissa Bianchi, Caleb Milligan, Shannon Butts, Jason Crider, Emily Brooks and Madeline Gangnes)

Multi Lobes, Multi Modes; I am UCF Digital Storytelling

Garrett Colon
Stephanie Wheller
Amanda Hill, University of Central Florida
Elizabeth Horn, University of Central Florida

CB1-307

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Multi Lobes, Multi Modes: Fostering Student Engagement and Learning Through Multimodality (Garrett Colón)

I am UCF Digital Storytelling Database Panel Presentation (Stephanie Wheeler, Amanda Hill and Elizabeth Horn)

Packaging Hashtags; Understanding Participatory Culture

Nicholas DeArmas
Wendy Givoglu, University of Central Florida
Jennifer Miller
David Moran
Stephanie Vie, University of Central Florida

CB1-120

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Packaging Hashtags for (re)Composition: Rhetorical Velocity and Topoii in the Invention of Hashtags (Nicholas DeArmas)

Understanding Participatory Culture through Hashtag Activism After the Orlando Pulse Tragedy (Nicholas DeArmas, Wendy Givoglu, Jennifer Miller, David Moran and Stephanie Vie)

Platforms that Matter

Kristina Busse
Francesca Coppa
Jsa Lowe
Katherine E. Morrissey
Mel Stanfill

CB1-309

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Since its emergence in the 1970s, media fandom has utilized a range of different technologies to collaborate and communicate. With each new platform, new features are introduced and previous norms are reworked. This session examines how platforms matter in contemporary fan cultures and practices.

Playing with Data

Michelle Cerrone
Jim Diamond
Noah Goodman

CB1-212

8:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Increased investment in ambitious digital games for learning, along with the development of accompanying online reporting systems means that teachers now have access to near real-time student performance data. These online reporting systems, or, data dashboards, provide teachers with formative assessment data they can use to inform their day-to-day instruction and ultimately bridge what students learn through gameplay to other contexts.

Southeastern Academic Community for the Digital Humanities

Helene Huet
Leah Rosenberg
Laurie Taylor
Lauren Coats
Corrie Clairborne
Julian Chambliss
Lauren Mandell
Emma Wilson
Jim Casey
Emily McGinn
Mike Gavin
Cliff Anderson
Justin Hosbey
Daniel Gerkins

CB1-121

8:15 AM - 11:15 AM

In imagining the possible worlds of Digital Humanities, and recognizing the need to create a future that is more interdisciplinary and inclusive, we propose to begin where we are. We propose a roundtable to discuss together the possibilities for a Southeastern Academic Community for DH.

The Wearable and Tangible Worlds of DH Exhibition

Kim Knight
Jessica Murphy
Dale MacDonald
Sophia Brueckner
Rachel Freire
UC Davis Critical Wearables Group
Jacqueline Wernimont
Elizabeth Grumback
Elwyn Crawford

VAB-222

8:15 AM - 12:15 PM

At HASTAC 2016 we took part in a Wearables and Tangible Computing Research Charrette, where "charrette" was used in order to signal a session that was collaborative and participatory with the goal of shaping and extending how we engage with concepts around wearable technologies.

10:00 AM

A Digital Module on Critical Language Awareness; The Children of Föhrenwald; Diagnosing Depression

Sergio Loza
Angelica Amezcua
June Owens
Nichelle Morales

CB1-307

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

A Digital Module on Critical Language Awareness: Resistance and Social Justice in the Classroom (Sergio Loza and Angelica Amezcua)

The Children of Föhrenwald, a Jewish Shtetl from the Post-Holocaust Displaced Person Camp, are Reconnected through an Interactive Documentary Project and a Virtual "Living Monument" in the Newly Designed Handy-Memorial App (June Owens)

Diagnosing Depression: Building an Open-Source Tool for Mental Health (Michelle Morales)

Digital Work, Material Consequences: Approaches to our Virtual World

Derek Price
Kyle Romero
Ted Dawson
James Phelan
Terrell Taylor

CB1-105

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

In turbulent political, economic, and social times, we are forced to confront one of the most enduring "hard problems" of Academia in general: What is the broader significance of our work as scholars in the societies and communities in which we live?

ELLE, The EndLess LEarner Videogame: An Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Collaboration

Amy Giroux, University of Central Florida
Emily Johnson, University of Central Florida
Don Merritt, University of Central Florida
Gergana Vitanova, University of Central Florida
Sandra Sousa

CB1-308

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Learning a new language is difficult and time-consuming. This panel discussion will consist of descriptions of the unique research interests and perspectives from each member of the five person interdisciplinary team working to design a second-language acquisition (SLA) videogame, ELLE: The EndLess LEarner.

[[Enter Twine'd]]: Linking Teaching and Learning through Hypertext

Dan Cox
Kristopher Purzycki
Howard Fooksman
Cody Mejeur

CB1-301

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Relating their own experiences with the hypertext platform Twine within and outside of classroom spaces, this roundtable builds on the call for greater multiliteracy learning. Twine promotes digital composition activities for students as part of a larger commitment to how games-based learning can speak to and enable student voices.

Open Humanities: Strategies for Creating Open Access Course Materials

John Venecek, University of Central Florida
Christian Beck
John Raible, University of Central Florida
Sarah A. Norris, University of Central Florida
Lily Flick, University of Central Florida

CB1-120

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

As textbook affordability and access to information become important topics on university campuses and within the population more generally, finding ways to decrease book costs in a humanities classroom while providing the best possible resources for students emerges as a multi-disciplinary strategy that requires cooperation across campus.

Ribbon Cutting: A Game for Breast Cancer Awareness

Stephanie Vie, University of Central Florida
Jennifer Miller, University of Central Florida

PSY-228B

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. All year, but peaking in October, individuals, organizations, and corporations appropriate the pink ribbon symbol to engage with the breast cancer cause. The symbol has become increasingly ubiquitous, and the general consensus it that it represents awareness. However, awareness is a generic term representing a myriad of socially constructed concepts, most notably health and fundraising.

Technological Environment of New Media and Open-Ended Training Pattern for Creative Media Talents

Xin Xun Wu, Shanghai University
Ling Jiang, Shanghai University of Science and Technology
Lanlan Kuang

CB1-309

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The practices in the media and cultural and creative industries (CCIs) suggest that an integrative trend in the totality of media network, including integrations in the modes of information production, communication channels and terminals, and the appearance of prosumers, is revolutionizing information environment and the way of being.

The Procedural Sonnet; Queer Classroom Space

Corey Sparks

CB1-212

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The Procedural Sonnet: A Demo (Corey Sparks)

Queer Classroom Spaces: Using Social Media and Digital Tools to "Meet Students Where They Are" (Kristin Lafollette)

Visualizations using p5.js for Digital Humanities Projects

Jeremy Sarachan

CB1-303

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Given the necessity of coding tools for many digital humanities projects, this workshop will introduce participants to the p5.js Javascript library, covering the basics of programming, including variables, for loops, if..then statements, and basic drawing syntax.

11:15 AM

Digital Poster Showcase

HASTAC Presenters

VAB-104

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Digital Posters Showcase

Print Posters

HASTAC Presenters

VAB-111

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Print Posters

1:45 PM

Colonizing the Hyperreal: Alterity in Zombie Apocalypse Narratives

Mark Kretzschmar
Sara Raffel
Jay Gentry

CB1-120

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Famed French theorist Jean Baudrillard defined the precession of simulacra as an eventual replacement of reality from representation to hyperreality. Curiously, the theme of the zombie apocalypse, common in recent popular culture, is an intriguing example of such a simulacrum in that various narratives present the experience of the zombie apocalypse as authentic and realistic, even though the event could arguably never occur.

Digital Storytelling as Public History/Archaeology: a View from the Vayots Dzor Fortress Landscapes Project, Armenia

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, University of Central Florida
Travis Corwin, University of Central Florida
Nicolas Hilliard, University of Central Florida
Laurel Schafer, University of Central Florida

CB1-112

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Digital storytelling is an outgrowth of the field of new media studies, a humanistic discipline that explores the nexus of computing, science and visual culture.

How Micro-grants Build Peer-peer Intellectual Community

Aneesah Ettress

CB1-303

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

The Occidental College Center for Digital Liberal Arts has recently launched its first co-curricular Peer Learning Program. The PLP has the capacity to build a culture of open learning and address issues of access and equity on Occidental's campus both in its interaction with the broader community and within the program itself.

Medical Financial Aid; MARA

Logan Smith
Michael Powell
Amy Sugar
Julian Chambliss
Shree Raj Shrestha

CB1-301

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Medical Financial Aid Chatbot Demonstration (Logan Smith and Michael Powell)

MARA: Mobile Academic Research Application (Amy Sugar, Julian Chambliss and Shree Raj Shrestha)

No Place Like Home; From Score to Film

Kristin Miller
Susan Wiesner, University of Maryland
Rommie Stalnaker
Stephen Ramsay, University of Nebraska
Brian Pytlik Zilig, University of Nebraska

CB1-105

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

No Place Like Home (Kristin Miller) From Score to Film: Reimagining the Dance of Irmgard Bartenieff (Susan Wiesner, Rommie Stalnaker, Stephen Ramsay and Brian Pytlik Zillig)

Reimagining the Digital Humanities with 'New Majority' Students for Public Higher Education

Kitana Ananda
Lauren Melendez
Mike Rifino

CB1-212

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

When we talk about the digital humanities as scholars and practitioners in higher education, who do we imagine to be the students of this emerging field? How is this connected to efforts to make the digital humanities more inclusive and interdisciplinary?

Soapbox Session A

Patricia Carlton
Amardeep Singh
Ned Prutzer
Stephen Horrocks
Anita Chan
Ali Rachel Pearl
Chris Strasbaugh, Ohio State University
Dan Martin
Mary Lindsay Van Tine

CB1-308

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Filtering the Flow: Interrogating Digital Culture through Web Archiving (Patricia Carlton)

The Archive Gap: the Kiplings and their Indian Interlocutors (Amardeep Singh)

Innovation in the Global Midwest: Research and Pedagogy Across Regional Archives (Ned Prutzer, Stephen Horrocks and Anita Chan)

Archival Futures (Ali Rachel Pearl)

Difficult Digitization on a Dime: Crowd-sourcing Ideas to Harness Emerging Imaging Technology (Chris Strasbaugh)

The Invisible Labor in Digital Collaborations (Dan Martin)

Why is Gale Shrinking America? Or, Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana and the Database's (National) Limits (Mary Lindsay Van Tine)

Soapbox Session B

Deanna Sessions
Pouya Jahanshahi
Geoffrey Gimse
Kira Baker-Doyle
Joseph Fanfarelli
John Bork

CB1-307

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Values Beyond Cost: Open Educational Resources in the Humanities Classroom (Deanna Sessions)

Towards a Digital Humanities Design Pedagogy (Pouya Jahanshahi)

Bridging the Gaps: Digital Humanities Labs as Spaces of Access and Engagement in the University (Geoffrey Gimse)

From Fake Participation to Embedded Selves: Four Dimensions of Participation in Open, Online Learning (Kira Baker-Doyle)

How to Transition into the Coding World: Lessons Learned from Teaching Humanities Students (Joseph Fanfarelli)

Raspberry PMREK (John Bork)

Soapbox Session C

Connie Lester, University of Central Florida
Abigail Padfield
Marcy Galbreath, University of Central Florida
Amy Giroux, University of Central Florida
Jessica Taylor
Ashley Sanders
Diane Cline, George Washington University
J.D. Applen

CB1-309

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

It's All in the Bag: Developing the BookBag Tool to Organize and Analyze Data and Create Narratives Onsite (Connie Lester)

Measuring the Impact of History Harvests on UCF and its Community-Based Partner Institutions (Abigail Padfield)

The Paper Lens and Dominant Roots: Exploring the Hegemony of Agricultural Modernization through Historical Agricultural News (Marcy Galbreath and Amy Giroux)

Mapping property boundaries and Indian trails in the Chesapeake (Jessica Taylor)

Surfacing Indigenous Perspectives on the French Conquest of Algeria in a Graduate DH Course (Ashley Sanders)

The JFK Assassination Records Act of 1992 and Digital History (Diane Cline)

Big Data, Digital Humanities, and a New Understanding of Predictive Analytics (J.D. Applen)

Soapbox Session D

Jeffery Suttles
James Cosper, Towson University
Emily Tarvin
Rachel Molko

CB1-308

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Humanities Heart (Jeffrey Suttles)

From Four-Color to Inclusive: race and gender in contemporary superhero comics (James Cosper)

"You Look Disgusting": A YouTube Beauty Guru's Response to Comments About Beauty and Ugliness (Emily Tarvin)

Tomi Lahren: White Power Barbie (Rachel Molko)

3:15 PM

Designing Learning Adventures with Playground City

Kelsey Kerce
Wes Shaffer

PSY-228B

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Playground City believes learning is everywhere, all the time. We also believe learning can be fun, yet today's youth have become disillusioned with the traditional classroom model, which "teaches to the test." While technology and data are innovating at staggering rates, our education system is not providing a solid foundation for our youth to succeed in this information/digital age.

Folly is an Endless Maze

Emily Brooks
Norma Aceves

CB1-303

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

This presentation is a project demo of a unique poetry game called Folly is an Endless Maze that was created as a culminating project for "Data Mining and Digital Poetics," a graduate course at the University of Florida offered in Spring of 2015.

Hacking Evaluation: Towards Values-based Professional Advancement Practices for the Digital Humanities

Stacy Konkiel

CB1-105

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Digital humanities scholars face a hard, continued socio-technical problem: though the results of their research are often web-native, interactive, and iterative (think: websites, exhibits, datasets, and more), their careers are often evaluated based upon discrete, static, and ossified publication formats like print monographs and journal articles, due in large part to disciplinary cultures and technological limitations.

Humanistic Challenges in Technology courses and vice versa: putting together a syllabus for a multi-disciplinary class

Eleni Bozia

CB1-301

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

The advancement of Digital Humanities and the increasing number of academics and enthusiasts have turned the focus to the following issues:

  1. Why do the Humanities need technology, and how technology can be used to effectuate advanced research that has not been possible thus far
  2. How to motivate technology savvy individuals to collaborate with humanists.

Immersive Worlds of Possibility – Bootstrap Your Digital Heritage

Barbara Truman
Francisca Yonekura

CB1-112

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Ever dreamed of getting or adapting a tattoo? Horrified at the thought? It is more manageable than you think. The pain and cost of permanent imprint can be avoided. Come see a demo of an open source platform in which art, modeling, and experiences can be designed.

Needs Mapping: A Visualization Technique to Understand Student Needs and Improve Student Success

Steven Lam
Arthi Krishnaswami

CB1-212

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

We believe every student should have a Community of Trust, that extends beyond the school community. A community of trust is a network of relationships and agreements that facilitates the exchange of information about students among parents, families, schools, and related service providers.

Noise and Nature in the Anthropocene: Soundscape Ecology to Understand Liminal Space

Robert Clarke, University of Central Florida
Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida
Patricia Thomas
Bartley Argo

CB1-120

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Thanks to the recent rise of work in soundscape ecology, there is growing evidence of impacts of anthrophony, or human-created noise on both human and nonhuman animal listeners. The study of anthrophony's impact on other species and environments can help us better understand the pervasive ecological and geological impacts of the human species in the Anthropocene.

Teaching computer programming to humanists using emoticon-like scripting

Angelos Barmpoutis, University of Florida

CB1-113

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

In many ways, learning to program can be challenging for humanists although computer programming is an essential skill for digital humanities. According to published studies this is often attributed to poor self-efficacy, limited prior experience with computers, or inability to relate personal experiences to abstract programming concepts.

4:30 PM

Closing Plenary and Closing Remarks: Cathy N. Davidson, The New Education

Cathy N. Davidson

CB1-121

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Cathy Davidson with Julie Thompson Klein as moderator.

Keynote Speaker

Cathy Davidson

CB1-121

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Cathy Davidson with Julie Thompson Klein as moderator.

6:00 PM

Cathy Davidson Book Signing

Cathy Davidson

CB1-121

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM