31. GIS Workshop 2023: 03 Creating feature classes (03:26)

Date:
2023-11-13
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi
Summary:
IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

32. GIS Workshop 2023: 04 Adding point data to the map (07:48)

Date:
2023-11-13
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi
Summary:
IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

33. GIS Workshop 2023: 05 Georeferencing a raster image (08:13)

Date:
2023-11-13
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi
Summary:
IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

34. GIS Workshop 2023: 06 Drawing lines (e.g., road) (05:29)

Date:
2023-11-13
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi
Summary:
IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

35. GIS Workshop 2023: 07 Adding Polygons (e.g. borders) (04:24)

Date:
2023-11-13
Main contributors:
Pouyan Shahidi
Summary:
IU scholars from history to area studies, diaspora studies, art history, geography, history of science and more benefit from visualizing and analyzing data on maps in their research, teaching, and publications. Any piece of data that is associated with a location on the Earth can be visualized and analyzed using Global Information Systems (GIS) software. The end results, comprises a variety of digital assets including but not limited to digital maps, geospatial databases, charts, and web apps that can be published in, or linked to books, articles, and websites, or as independent databases to be used by other scholars. It is even possible to create “storymaps” on platforms that allow you unfold your narrative while taking your reader on a tour of visualized data on maps and using multimedia. Like in the case of other digital humanities methods, learning how to work with software and platforms is much easier that what the fancy outcome of them might suggest in the first glance. In this two-part asynchronous workshop, we intend to, first, give IU faculty and students an overview of what GIS can do for them through highlighting a few works by their peers; and second, to quickly direct them to easy-to-follow workflows that breakdown the process of build a digital mapping project into simple steps. These workflows, which can be used in your research projects or for your in-classroom pedagogical needs, covers a variety of ArcGIS desktop and online platforms. The contents of the workshop are a mixture of brief texts, screen shots and short screen recordings, as well as links to external sources for diving deeper into narrower technical matters. This asynchronous workshop will be gradually updated to cover more GIS skills that might be useful in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

37. Alternative Food Media as Site of Radical Praxis (03:30)

Date:
2023-04-14
Main contributors:
Mallika Khanna
Summary:
In 2012, before beginning an overhaul of its public communications service that produced LinkNYC, the City of New York relied on 13 telecom companies to provide service to its network of public payphones. Built on the remains of Bell Telephone infrastructure, the telecoms were differentiated only by their branding. From 2000-2014, telecom companies in New York maintained a geographic monopoly, with specific areas of the city designated as certain corporate territories. Using an unique archived GIS dataset from 2012, this project examines how telecom companies approached New York City as a market space, defining the territories between each phones as the domain of a particular telecom company. Analyzing these market territories within the space of the city will show the ways that urban space is understood, segmented, and produced by assemblages of capital. Through multiple maps of New York City telecom territories, this project reveals the complex structure of public utilities that undergirds everyday objects like a payphone.

39. Entwined Edges: Parametric Digital Fabrication Systems for Design Assembly (03:17)

Date:
2023-04-14
Main contributors:
Justin Bailey
Summary:
In 2021 Eskenazi School Assistant Professor and Justin Bailey began to develop computational design algorithms for drafting techniques in order to incorporate systematic design methods into his process of researching fabrication, form, and material in furniture and lighting as a method to output a variety of formal outcomes as iterations of the same code applied to varying. This method, built primarily on Computer Aided Design techniques, considers the connection points between two sides of a joint within the design fabrication process. Through this proposal, Justin Bailey hopes to use the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Fellowship in conjunction with knowledge gained through the 2021 research to explore coding for material joints and connections in greater depth, focusing on code development, sustainable material use, and attachment methods within digitally fabricated forms to develop a resulting code and body of work used to create batch iteration works of functional furniture and lighting design.

40. Feeling at War: Emotion and Rationality as Narrative Responses in German Antiwar Literary Traditions (03:59)

Date:
2023-04-14
Main contributors:
Claire Woodward
Summary:
Victim Stories are powerful in evoking emotional responses by portraying the process of suffering. I argue that before The First World War, German antiwar literature relied on impassioned emotional pleas whereas thereafter, characters are led by rational compassion, comparing affective character reactions to suffering in Bertha von Suttner's Lay Down Your Arms (1889) and Erich Maria Remarque's All is Quiet on the Western Front (1928). Von Suttner's novel focuawa on Martha, a woman not physically engaged in combative war but affected by widespread domestic harms from war and perceptive to those on the front. Alternatively, many post-Great War narratives suggest a sense of futility. War would-be heroes like Remarque's soldier Paul become victims of the chaotic war machine, surviving or dying entirely by chance and watching others condemned to the same fate. A textual analysis of word frequency in Lay Down Your Arms and All is Quiet on the Western Front demonstrates some key differences between these antiwar texts before and after The Great War in how the words "compassion," "pain," "happiness," and "death" (Mitleid, Schmerz, Glück, and Tod) appear. I also provide narrative arcs to differentiate the emotion-driven response of von Suttner's Martha with Remarque's rationally compassionate character Paul.