Thanks for covering this chapter, you did a great job of capturing McCormick's major argument in a small amount of space!

Thanks for covering this article!

I'd be interested to learn more about what the Black digital humanities might teach us about practicing public humanities.

Thanks for covering this bonus reading!

I'd be interested to learn more about how vidding is a way of studying (I had no idea it could be used in that way!) and also exactly how it can be used by public humanists to bring conversations out of academic and into the public arena.

Thanks for covering this article!

Ecocriticism is one branch of humanities work, and it can be interdisciplinary, as it pulls a lot from environmental sciences (as you noticed in Gould's blog!). If this is something that interests you, as an English major, you're primed to join the forces of ecocritical scholars. Do you know…[Read more]

Thanks for covering this project!

I think the ECDA is a great tool for everyone to keep in mind, especially those of you thinking of going into teaching someday - I can see the ECDA is a fantastic resource to share with students.

I'd be interested to see what participation/engagement looks like for the ECDA, if it exists. Though, I…[Read more]

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I'd be interested to learn more about how the public (or the faculty and students at University of Michigan) actually participate in this project. I'm also curious to know whether this project had any impact on the actual environment of their local community, or if they even were able to collect…[Read more]

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This seems like a great example of the democratizing potential that the Internet has- allowing the public to upload documents and other articles that are important to them, as opposed to only allowing those in power to completely control the narrative. Of course, we've recently felt the damaging…[Read more]

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How might we connect this article directly to public humanities practices? What can we learn about public humanities through fan practices, such as the ones you describe here, like community building and meaning-making?

Thanks for covering this fascinating project!

I'd like to hear more about the project accessibility - how does the project itself make sure that it is not only available, but also accessible? Did it use any of the Universal Design principles we learned about in Module 3?

Thanks for sharing this project!

One correction- Emmett Till was accused by the white woman of offending her, but this was very likely a lie. In fact, she may have recanted her statement in 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till#Claim_that_Carolyn_Bryant_recanted_her_testimony

I love to see open-access digital museums…[Read more]

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Because Frankenstein is old enough to be considered fair use, there are a lot of Frankenstein projects out there! If anyone is interested in creating a literary project, you might consider older texts as you're free to use the actual text in whatever you create.

As for this project, I…[Read more]

Something else to consider here is that academics traditionally don't get paid for publishing their work. The only people who financially benefit from publishing academic articles and putting them behind a paywall are the academic publishing companies. So I think most academics would be fine with the public accessing their work for…[Read more]

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Your article will definitely be able to help any of your peers interested in designing a digital public humanities project proposal dealing with art.

Festivals and museums can be virtual, and can be a great way to engage with the public online, even if you're not designing a project that deals…[Read more]

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I especially like how you cover the Baltimore Uprising Archive's radical potential, such as its ability to support and empower the community of Baltimore to create and share their own histories despite any sort of state gaslighting. The academics and project organizers mainly serve to organize and…[Read more]

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When I first found Digital Asia, I was really impressed- I wished there were more open-access films out there with pop-ups. I think this would be really helpful for teaching, but also if I ever wanted to learn a bit more about a specific culture on my own. This seems like a really fun and accessible…[Read more]

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I think this project is so important - archives of oral histories like this one can help support groups. On The NYC Trans Oral History's page they note that one of their purposes was to help support the creation of a trans community in NYC, as well to better organize towards their ultimate goal of…[Read more]

Thanks for covering this project. It's actually designed, built, and managed by Prof. Andrew Newman, a professor within the English Department at Stony Brook University!

While Wickman is right to say that it's impossible to know exactly how the public will interact with and use the projects we put out there, it's certainly…[Read more]

Thanks for this post. I like the way this project offers the public different ways of interact with its material - from a self-guided walking tour to its archive of oral history.

You mention that it doesn't seem like academics are as involved in this project as the public are, but I'd argue that they are very involved- it seems like…[Read more]

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I wish SBU had a project like this!

It's interesting to consider this project through the lens of the readings we completed for Module 3, which explored the distinctions between the public and an audience. While the Carleton Covid-19 Archive is designed with a specific audience - Carleton…[Read more]

Thanks for bringing up these important questions!

I think you're right to believe that you can create for both an audience and the public. Choosing a specific audience is important to the creation process, as it will guide your work and will help you to make important decisions about the language and medium your project uses, as…[Read more]

Thanks for bringing up these important questions! It's great that you're considering this now because you'll need to have an idea of how your project will reach the public/your audience.

One way might be to design for a specific audience, but to also apply Universal Design principles so that the public has enough access to potentially…[Read more]

I think this is a potentially helpful way of differentiating between the two. These definitions can also help you determine which group is more appropriate to address whenever you are creating a project based on the project's goals. Alternatively, you could start the creation process by first determining whether you'd like to work with a…[Read more]

Titles are also important because they can help make your project searchable online. You might think about what your potential audience will type into Google to find your work - what are some keywords they might use to search for the material or digital space you will provide them with?

I see how a project on implicit racism…[Read more]

I'm glad to hear that these readings helped you to think more deeply about the concept of a 'public.' When putting your work out there - especially online - it's difficult to know exactly who will engage with it. While you may have an ideal audience in your mind for whom you design the project, you never know who else might find and…[Read more]

I agree with Jen- the "Baltimore Traces" project is a great find and definitely something everyone should check out if they have the time - especially those of you interested in teaching.

Thanks also for including a list of Fisher's five types of engagement- this is a really helpful tool that any of your peers can return to…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing this project with us!

I like how actionable "Boom or Bust" is- there's a clear sense of exactly how this project is helpful, who it serves, and why it's important. For some public humanities projects, these elements aren't always so clear.

I also am interested in how many different mediums this project takes,…[Read more]

Great post!

I like the way you connect the discussion happening between Hsu, Shumway, Wickman, and Ellison regarding the definition of public humanities with your own experience in this class. It seems like involving the public right from the start in the actual process of knowledge-building in public humanities projects is more…[Read more]

Thanks for this post! Because Krebs covers three different articles, and therefore three different projects, this helps give a sense of how varied public humanities projects can be.

Your definition of public humanities, that it's the action of bringing humanities disciplines and training outside of the classroom and into the…[Read more]

I'm glad that this article helped you to better understand public humanities and realize that there are potentially more examples of public humanities work out there than you previously imagined.

I think your emphasis on Howard's point that public humanities needs to involve a conversation with the public, as opposed to something…[Read more]

Thanks for covering this project, I think it's fascinating! I was looking through the photographs they have in the archive from my neighborhood, and it's pretty neat (and strangely disorienting) to see things I see on my daily walks on a project like this. It really drives home the fact that we're living through history.

Thanks…[Read more]

Thanks for this post! I appreciated your focus on Wattpad's ability to connect authors and readers together. I guess the closest thing to that is in social media spaces like Twitter, where you can tweet at an author, though I suppose this is pretty different, in that it's all connected directly to the texts themselves. It also seems…[Read more]

Jumping off of Leo's post- how might we plan to use some of what Yergeau argues in the projects you will all propose next week? What is some actionable advice you might give to your peers based on this article?

I've also noticed this commitment to some level of social advocacy, historical inequalities, and interaction in the vast majority of public history projects I've encountered. I'm sure there are ways for other humanities disciplines to commit to similar causes.

I think your potential project idea about dispensing royalty-free music for…[Read more]

I love your ideas! I'm also a big horror and D&D fan - I play every Friday evening with some fellow PhDs on Zoom ever since March of last year.

I like the ideas of either a podcast or a YouTube channel. By having a transcript of each episode, you would make your podcast accessible, so I think you should still consider podcasting…[Read more]

Thanks for your responses!

Do you think even adding universal design methods to your project, as described by Williams, would make it messy and unfocused? I guess I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the potential detriments of using universal design.

Thanks for this response!

Adding to your point about access, even if someone outside of a university knows about JSTOR, it won't be that helpful, because JSTOR requires users to have a membership in order to actually access any of the articles on their database. We have that access because we're students at Stony Brook, but once we…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Time can be really interesting within academia. First of all, it can take years between an article getting accepted for publication within an academic journal or manuscript and its actual publication. So by the time an academic article actually gets published, its information or its content might…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

This concept of the ivory tower is just meant to allegorize the way that academics, and humanities scholars in particular, tend to feel or behave like their work has no connection to the "real world" or to the public. Public humanists definitely DON'T view themselves or what they do as being…[Read more]

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I agree - what's the point if it has no connection to the outside world? I have a hard time even imaging doing humanities work for fun if there's no such connection.

You bring up the "previously discussed idea of working on the language we utilize" and note that you find this concept useful. What exactly is…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

One of the great things about the humanities in general (at least on my opinion) is that everything is complex, even if it at first seems really obvious. In our discipline, we tend to ask questions, and then ask more questions, and continue this process until we've fully unravelled whatever it is…[Read more]