My approach to digital humanities
I am interested in digital humanities as a means of producing scholarship that is public-facing and accessible for community contributions. Some projects from other scholars that have informed my future goals in this arena include the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment’s Memory Work Los Angeles, a collaborative digital archive of personal testimonies and artefacts from Los Angeles labor history, and the online project resources repository for Metagaming by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux, which enables visitors to view the media artefacts and play the art games Boluk and LeMieux created as part of their research for the monograph.
DH Portfolio contents
- DH intellectual statement
- Critical understanding of DH field
- Skills I've developed through DH work
Links to projects
This is a series of essays about media portrayals about work life in Amazon warehouses. Using examples from Amazon promotions, the film Nomadland (2020), and independent documentaries, I interrogate how Amazon's ubiquity is experienced and portrayed in media focused on Amazon warehouse workers. This project was published and formatted on Scalar in order to incorporate multimedia elements such as gifs, video clips, screen clips, and press clippings. I am also planning to expand this project by using Scalar's other features such as timeline generation from media metadata and live video annotations.
A city that can be "all the things": competing/changing/conflicting images of Las Vegas in mainstream US films is an ongoing project to explore the many depictions of Las Vegas across decades of Hollywood and US independent films through digital humanities methods. The current version of this project contains an Introduction that outlines the themes and arguments explored through the project's data visualizations, information on the creation and processing of the project's dataset, and various data visualizations and a map related to questions about film depictions of Las Vegas.