Introducing digital humanit ies through the analysis of cultural productions

Everardo Reyes

Université de Paris 13

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Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, July 11th.

DH2014 | Digital Humanities 2014

1. tailored too lk its of digital methods

2. analysis of complex p roper t ies of cultural productions

3. toward design-based learn ing

possible approaches to our contribution:3

create your own Analy t ica l Maps

select a cultural production

gather data: media + metadata

perform information processing techniques

analyse with social and human sciences methods

too lk its of digital methods

Examples of Ana ly t ica l Maps made by students

Student Sonia Haddad Large JPG made with Photoshop

networks

chromatic values

word clouds

text analytics

Our too lk it relies on web-based software and services

Get texts Text AnalysisWikipedia,

Projet Gutenberg, newpapers, Gallica BNF,

Open Edition Books

Word Count Tools, Wordle, Ngram Viewer, Voyant,

Many Eyes, Wolfram Personal Analytics,

Google Account Activity

Image Analysis Get MetadataPixlr, Rainbow Color Tools, Color Inspector

3D, Histogram Viewer, ColoRotateIMDB, AllMusic, mvdbase, Amazon, Google Books, Comic Book DB, Google Zeitgeist

Use and create networksTouchgraph, LinkedIn maps,

Many Eyes,Get Friend Map, LivePlasma, Fineo/Raw

Revealing student patterns

• type of productions they chose? mainly albums and films;

• top 6 artists: Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, The Velvet

Underground, Lou Reed, Rihanna, Beyoncé;

• top 4 movie directors: B. Sonnenfeld, Q. Tarantino, R. Zemeckis, J.

Cameron

Supports used to design the analytical maps

use of too lk its (re)design of tools, services, interfaces

…toward design-based learn ing

use of media soft ware to design

your own analy t ica l maps

coming activities for

design ing too ls

Analysis of ideology and algorithmic procedures of UI: what our tools have virtualized and/or remediated?

Experimental Media Visualizations new models to analyse images

3D print the object of analysis

Thank you for your attentionE. Reyes, Université de Paris 13

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