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Author Rachel Visser wrote a unique insta novel about Farihah, a young Afghan refugee who just like other teenagers dreams about a future. At a young age, Farihah flees from Afghanistan and arrives in the Netherlands, where she is eventually living in a refugee centre. Together with her friends Noor and Lucas she dreams of going to secondary school and to become an artist. This dream is severely interrupted when she received a letter from the Dutch government.

In 2019, we have Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. A hundred years earlier, there were postcards. In the “Golden Age” of postcards (1902-1915), postcards circulated with the same fervor, if not speed, of images on popular social media apps today. The Suffrage Postcard Project looks back at the early decades of the 1900s in the context of the women’s suffrage movement, a movement that gained momentum in the same historical moment of the Golden Age of postcards and produced hundreds of pro- and anti-suffrage images. This project asks: How can feminist DH and data visualization approaches to over 700 postcards offer new perspectives on the visual history of the U.S. suffrage movement? Our methodology is inspired by Jacqueline Wernimont and Julia Flanders’ 2010 article, “Feminism in the Age of Digital Archives.” They argue that the “work of digitization and encoding also engages us in a reflexive process that forces us to interrogate those genres and any genre-tags that we may use in creating the textbase.” Within our feminist DH lab—made up of faculty, instructors, graduate students, and ELO2019 University College Cork #ELOcork 36 undergraduate students—images were collectively tagged through Omeka, a digital archive platform. Currently, we are using the API to export data to ImagePlot and Gephi for data visualization. We are also in the beginning stages of building a feminist data visualization tool for the Project, in collaboration with computer science and engineering faculty and graduate students. Using the Suffrage Postcard Project, this presentation reads the aesthetics of a digital archive and argues that the ideological aesthetic brought to the creation and development of a digital archive influences the way that archive is read. In this case, a feminist aesthetic challenges visual understandings of race, class, and gender within the suffrage movement; it uses data treated by feminist methodologies to raise questions critical to intersectional feminist analysis. The aesthetics of the archive asks: How do we organize our images, line-breaks, page-breaks, and written text within the digital archive to reflect a feminist aesthetic? How do we apply a feminist aesthetic to write machine-learning algorithms that highlight critical feminist concerns within U.S. visual history? How do we represent absence—the absence of women of color, immigrant women, working-class women, non-Christian women, and women without children—in data visualization? What do these visualizations allow us to see that we couldn’t see before? And finally, how do we make our feminist treatment of such data transparent to the archive-user? These questions frame the collaborative work done within the feminist DH lab that produces the Suffrage Postcard Project.

Mary Rose is a digital ghost story. Nunn gave context to her work on University of Alberta's blog:

Mary Rose is about my children’s great-grandmother and I’ve been writing the story for about six months. I actually have a lot more written and was originally intending it to be a novel. I decided to use some of the writing for the final project of my Digital Fictions class and I was really happy with how the story worked in a digital format. I was actually surprised how easily the Mary Rose story fit into the interactive format.

(Source: University of Albarta)

Stories about Lithuanian Paralympians. Each story encompasses each individuals experience, struggles, and passion.

Available in English and Lithuanian language.

This work was awarded the Gorkana Award for Journalism in 2016. 

A story about a student's struggle with their mental health and journey of self discovery. 

This work won the 2016 New Media Writing Student Prize.

A short hypertext exploration of psychosis, about ignorance, defiance, and freedom—or: self-knowledge, acquiescence, and fate. Takes about 15 minutes to play. There are two significantly-divergent endings, but replays are intentionally discouraged.

This game was awarded the New Media Writing Prize in 2016. 

Rediscovering Springfield will be an art-type walk that is a site-specific exhibition using mobile devices and printed items to unearth content by walking along Main Road Moonah. Rediscovering Springfield will be a project that engages with the community of Springfield and the greater Moonah area in Hobart, Tasmania.

The work Rediscovering Springfield will add another chapter in the history of Tasmania. It will share the personal untold stories from migrants who came to Tasmania in the mid 20th Century onwards. Their contribution to the building and adding to this state is not often talked about or acknowledged in Tasmaniaʼs history.

The work will investigate how they communicated, what they brought with them, how their concept of home and food was re-created and experienced in their new “home” in Australia. How they shared their culture with other communities, how they spoke with one another, especially as many of them didn’t speak fluent English, if at all, on their arrival. How does one negotiate a space one does not understand fully?

These are some of the questions Rediscovering Springfield will explore – we can consider how did they navigate their lives through their new foreign home? Those who speak English natively will gain insight into this day-to-day experience of the new migrant.

The work will be realised by encouraging community involvement, through the exploration of people’s personal archives of the area or street – including photos, audio, etc. realised as moving images plus video and audio interviews.

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The narrative of this digital story is filled with information and siding. By liking information from different fields, scientific or personal, 'Fuora Grenen' illustrates new blind spots in the micro-macro-cosmic perspective.