The annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium returns for its 6th edition on April 19, 2024.
Join us in the Knight Library DREAM Lab for a full day of presentations on a wide range of topics related to data studies, media studies, and digital studies, showcasing the exciting multi-disciplinary work being produced across campus.
| 09:15-09:30a |
Arrival, morning coffee/pastries |
| 09:30-09:45a |
Opening Remarks and Welcome
D|M|D Grad Symposium organizers:
- Mattie Burkert (CAS/English & Digital Humanities)
- Maxwell Foxman (SOJC/Media Studies & Game Studies)
- Courtney Cox (CAS/Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies & Black Studies)
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| 09:45-10:45a
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PANEL A: Digital
- Andrew J. Wilson (SOJC), “‘God Bless the South, Brother’: A Paratextual Analysis of War of Rights Steam Reviews”
- Will Arangelov (SOJC), “Developing Relationships and Self-Disclosure in the Gaming World: A Case Study on the Discord Platform”
- Intisar Alshammari (English), “Digital Medievalism in the Classroom: Beowulf as a Model”
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| 10:55-11:45a
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FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
- Courtney Cox, IRES
- Lana Lopesi, IRES
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| 12:00-01:00p |
Lunch for presenters (Bartolotti’s Pizza in EMU) |
| 01:15-02:30p |
PANEL B: Media
- Emrakeb Woldearegay (SOJC), “Making Dissent Visible through Facebook Activism? The Tale of Three Ethiopians”
- Stephen Ssenkaaba (SOJC), “Challenging Mainstream Media Narrative through Podcasting: The Case of Uganda’s Youth Podcasters”
- Asher Caplan (Philosophy), “A Conduct-Based Inquiry Epistemology: John Dewey and the Educationist Response to Disinformation”
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| 02:30-03:30p |
Abstract workshop and coffee/snack break |
| 03:30-04:45p |
PANEL C: Data
- Nishat Parvez (SOJC), “Examining How Data Journalists in Bangladesh Keep Reporting Honest: Transparency, Ethical Data Visualization, and Protecting Secrets in Investigative Journalism”
- Maxim Shapovalov (Geography), “Role of Surface Albedo for Explaining Differences of Modeled Greenland Ice Sheet Melt”
- Genevieve Pfeiffer (English), “What’s Language Got to Do with It? Human-Language Model Entanglement”
- Audrey Kalman (SOJC), “Denim Archive: Making Meaning of Clothing and Identity through Documentation”
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