Tools + Projects
NMCC PROJECTS AND TOOLS
Data|Media|Digital: UO’s Annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Symposium
NMCC Omeka Showcase: coming soon
SAMPLE DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP TOOLS
FEATURED PROJECTS
Carol Stabile, Editor
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Fembot is a scholarly collaboration promoting research on gender, media, and technology. We envision a new model for open access, multimodal publishing that will provide a prototype for collaborative research, publication, and pedagogy in the humanities and social sciences. Fembot |
Saving the Sierra: A Case Study
Zachary Schwartz
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To examine the question of community mobilization, I have performed a case study on the Saving the Sierra project, and its website Saving the Sierra: Voices of Conservation in Action. The project, led by co-directors Catherine Stifter and Jesikah Maria Ross, engages with the problem of community mobilization by emphasizing collaboration with the community. Project PDF Saving the Sierra |
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No More Potlucks: A Case Study
Staci Tucker
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No More Potlucks (NMP) serves as a fantastic example of open feminist scholarship, both based on its regional success and regard in the global academic feminist community. NMP is a model of resistance against closed academic scholarship, serving alongside increasingly adopted examples of open access, collaborative, and anti-capitalist projects, founded on queer and feminist ideology. Project PDF |
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ChinaVine: A Case Study
Nan Yang
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The current mission for ChinaVine is to educate English-speaking / reading children, youth, and adults about China’s cultural heritage. This mission is achieved through it’s interactive website along with a variety of social media platforms. Project PDF ChinaVine |
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Games for Change: A Case Study
Ed Parker
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Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games, also known as Serious Games, that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts (Games for Change, 2011). Games for Change aims to utilize the entertainment and engagement aspects of video games for social good. Project PDF |
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Hyde Park Visual History Project: A Case Study
Marissa Laubscher
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The Hyde Park Visual History Project, is a project which culminated during the summer of 2009 that collected video footage, images, and audio from individuals and institutions in the community of Hyde Park, NY, and projected them onto the town’s landscape as a forum to create shared experience and dialogue based on memory, identity, heritage, history, and a community’s connection to place. Project PDF |
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Dill Pickle Club: Online and Off: A Case Study
Teresa J. Arnold
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This is a case study on the new Dill Pickle Club located in Portland, OR. The organization utilizes the many tools that technology has to offer to generate collaborative place-based programming in the form of themed tours in the city of Portland. Each tour is a unique, one-time event that draws on the expertise of professionals throughout the city. Project PDF Dill Pickle Club |
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Ghana Think Tank: A Participatory Media Case Study
Roya Amirsoleymani
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On a number of levels, Ghana Think Tank strives to dissolve dichotomies, or disrupt those notions of difference that perpetuate cultural misunderstandings and reinforce hegemonic power structures. By using self-organized citizen think tanks in “developing” nations to propose solutions to problems in “developed” ones, the project helps develop connections between cultural, social, political, and geographical groups that are often presented as inherently different or without points of convergence or intersection, presenting opportunities for intercultural connection and community interaction across false binary oppositions like East/West, first world/third world, religious/non-religious, democracy/theocracy, and old/young. In the context of participatory media, Ghana Think Tank also breaks down a very particular assumed dichotomy: that of real/virtual worlds. Project PDF |
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