Media archaeology is the field that attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past, and especially through critical scrutiny of dominant progressivist narratives of popular commercial media such as film and television. I define this thread as a field in which media forms are examined from a critical lens. In my work, I’ve examined analog media forms and situated them within the field of digital humanities.
Project 1: Artificial Versifying
- I worked with Kaeden Berg and James Ryan to research this proto-computational application, Artificial Versifying, which produced Latin dactylic hexameter. We wrote a paper, got it published, and presented on it at a conference. Here is a link to the paper.
Project 2: Microfiche
- For the Hacking the Humanities final project, a group of students and I examined a set of microfiche from that contained college catalogue information. We grouped the fiche by type of school: liberal arts, public, HBCU, community college, scanned the fiche, extracted the text, and performed sentimental analysis to determine if there were any differences in sentiment between types of colleges. Here is the link to the project. I’m also doing an independent study on microfiche where I’ll be reflecting on the medium itself and how it fits into digital humanities in general. My final paper will be uploaded once finished.
