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Ki Mae Heussner, “Digital Confessionals: Tweeting Away Your Vices”

Posted on April 22, 2014 by araehug

This article explores the use of social media as a way to motivate/shame yourself into meeting a goal, like losing weight, monitoring your spending, or quitting smoking. The author looks at one man who lost weight by tweeting his caloric intake, … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Watching Each Other | Tagged abc news, annotation, behavior, budget, confessional, digital confessional, digital English, digital humanities, digital story, english, facebook, foucault, health, hegemony, ki mae heussner, lose weight, myspace, narrative, panopticon, self-policing, smoking, social norms, tweetwhatyoueat, tweetwhatyouspend, twitter | 1 Comment

Two Articles on Deep & Long Reading (That’s what she said.)

Posted on April 14, 2014 by araehug

I was sent Michael S. Rosenwald’s “Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say,” and Steven Poole’s “The internet isn’t harming our love of ‘deep reading’, it’s cultivating it” by a friend who I’m going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Annotations, Journal | Tagged annotations, articles, brain, deep reading, digital humanities, digital natives, digital reading, digital studies, e-reader, english, essays, genre, internet, internet culture, literature, long reads, michael rosenwald, middlemarch, neurobiology, neuroscience, novels, reading, scanning, shallow reading, short reading, skimming, slow reading, steven poole, young people, youth | Leave a comment

Google Ngrams

Posted on April 4, 2014 by araehug

Thank you, Google! This is such a neat tool, and if I had a project that involved more intensive big data-type research, this would be amazing. Google Ngrams allows you to enter search terms, and then it graphs the occurrences … Continue reading →

Posted in Daily Create | Tagged big data, digital research, digitial humanities, english, google, google books, google ngrams, literature, mental disorder, nineteenth century, psychopathy, research, undergraduate research, victorian, wikipedia, writing | Leave a comment

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