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Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (2021) was published recently as a text for thinking through methods for digital food studies.  The collection of essays is useful for considering a methodology for studying digital food media, but less about how to use digital tools for answering food related humanities questions. The authors in Digital Food…

This year has granted me the opportunity to work with various interdisciplinary scholars and explore how other disciplines interact with animal subjects. While touring MSU’s Museum of Natural Science Collections, we observed marks of DNA analysis in turtle shells created by one of the Master’s students at MSU (if anyone knows the name of this…

This year, I am a GA for Humanities Commons, a networking site for humanities scholars. As part of my assistantship, I help clear deposits for the Commons’ non-profit, open-access repository CORE. Over the last several months, I have gained more experience in learning the intricacies of intellectual property, copyright, and ownership. While the Commons’ focus…

Echoing Juan Carlos’ post on applications of digital humanities, I’ve seen exciting opportunities to apply digital methods in social science as well, especially in my field, urban studies. Besides data visualization, digitization, spatial analysis and representation, social network analysis, and text analysis covered in his blog, I also think agent-based modeling is gaining popularity. An…

In 2018, The New York Times contributor Nellie Bowles published an article concerning digital literacy and socioeconomic class of youngsters in the United States titled, “The Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids is Not What We Expected.” One might assume that higher socioeconomic status would equate higher digital literacy for students. (Digital literacy can be…

Last week, the CHI fellows cohort started our second rapid development project. We are building a project pitch website based on our “Project Version Document” from the first challenge (see Micayla Spiro’s post for more on that project!). For our site, my group decided to revive the Museum of London’s London Wall Walk that was…

Recently, I’ve gained the opportunity to work with museum curators and staff through the SEEK fellowship. This year, the museum is building an exhibit based on “Observation.” You can peruse the exhibit’s topic at this link: https://grad.msu.edu/news/seek-fellowship-msu-museum-observation-research-exhibition-fellowship. I applied because I am interested in human observation, especially when such observations are projected onto more-than-human beings.…

For this blog post, I’d like to share a book I recently read. The book is called Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, written by Matthew Salganik. It discusses new opportunities, challenges, and common pitfalls of using large scale digital data for social science research in general. One theme of this book…

A link between cultural heritage management and classical business strategies should be forged, and the university is the perfect place to begin this cultural transformation. If we are to think of cultural heritage management as a practice, one aspect that sets it apart from traditional business methods is a focus on ethics and human rights.…