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Category Archives: Intellectual Acrobatics
Stories, Histories and Digital Narratives
In his book The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives With New Media Bryan Alexander defines a story as having the following characteristics: Any media object that follows the Frietag Sequence of introduction, rising action, climax and falling action They are … Continue reading
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Love at First Site or My Longest Blog to Date
Spring Break is coming and while I’d love to go to Austin, TX or some other temperate location (that doesn’t tacitly perpetuate colonialism re: every destination in the Caribbean [sorry to ruin your vacations people who are going on cruises...]), … Continue reading
The Search for the Hidden Finding Aid
Today I wrote a paper for my Archives and Records Management class, on the subject of collecting controversial/radical material. I used the case of the Ted Kaczynski’s Papers, which were acquired by University of Michigan’s Labadie Collection, to examine some … Continue reading
“The World’s First Internet”
For our second class, we had to select and read an article about an “outdated media,” and then write a reflective blog post about it. My article was about the telegraph…or as I like to call it, “The World’s First … Continue reading