Details
- When: 2016-2017
- Project Link: Dash-Amerikan
- Project type: Student
Like the previous cohort, this year's group took the concept of time as their provocation, but they took it in a wildly different direction. Reflecting broadly on how the Kardashian family pervades our present moment, Dash-Amerikan uses variety of digital humanities methodologies to interrogate their social media ecologies. Assembling and topic modeling a vast archive of twitter data and episode transcripts, the cohort produced a lengthy digital essay that sits at the intersections of media studies, digital humanities, and public humanities.
Below are our research blog posts related to the project:
- Congratulations to the Praxis 2016-2017 Cohort
- Fair Use, DH, and the Kardashians
- Why Study Popular Culture? Why Study the Kardashians?
- Reading the Kardashians
- Working with an Archive of the ‘Now’
- Time, Twitter, and Keeping Up with the Kardashians
- Why not build another digital humanities tool?
- Praxis on Choosing a Subject of Study, or, How did we come to the Kardashians?
- Discussions in the Digital Humanities and Learning New Technologies in the Scholars’ Lab
Collaborators:
- Jordan Buysse, Praxis Fellow
- Alicia Caticha, Praxis Fellow
- Alyssa Collins, Praxis Fellow
- Justin Greenlee, Praxis Fellow
- Sarah McEleney, Praxis Fellow
- Joseph Thompson, Praxis Fellow
- Purdom Lindblad, Head of Student Programs