The digital humanities can be a difficult thing to navigate, as either a learner or a creator. And often scholars must concede one thing to employ another. For example the “Mining the Dispatch” website created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. This website is easy to navigate, and contains an enormous
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As a student, we often used digital scholarship in class without even realizing it. These tools were utilized to engage students in new manners of education that widely differed from the memorization and lecturing of prior years. I personally found it highly engaging and beneficial; information being presented in generally novel ways with images to
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So far with the Abolition Lab, I’ve spent a good deal of time looking at digital humanities projects. Moving forward, in helping others and creating my own digital projects, I’ve been thinking about audience in a new digital space. As people in the humanities, we hold a position of power, we’re the ones with the
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The Knox College Abolition Lab’s “Towards an Abolitionist Approach to Media Literacy” team recently launched the first version of our Library Guide, laying out the resources and approaches we see as fundamental to critical activist engagements with media. We’ll have much more to say about the Library Guide and why we think abolitionist thought can
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Hello! My name is Selah Dow, I’m a sophomore here at Knox. I am double major in secondary education and history. I am currently employed in both the Abolition Lab and the Student Newspaper, TKS, here at Knox. I am involved in several clubs and extracurriculars, including Enharmonic Fire (a choir), and String Arts Club.
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Hello, hello! My name is Kyra, and I am so excited to be joining the Abolition Lab team as a lab assistant! I’m a first-year here at Knox majoring in history. At Knox, I am involved in theatre, ASL club, and book club. My historical interests include industrialization, American responses to global conflicts, and changes
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Hey! My name is Annemarie, and I’m a junior here at Knox, studying a double major in History and Spanish. I enjoy spending time with my friends and exploring new things when I’m here at Knox – such as going rollerblading, watching new TV shows/movies together, and just driving around and seeing new things. Currently,
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Hi there! My name is Marion (aka Mimi) Schweitzer and I am a general lab assistant for the Abolition lab team! I am here to learn as well guide people through the new technological advancements being made in our library and through people’s classes. My majors are in Secondary Education and History so this was
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