The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an autoethnographic analysis on my literate activities as a blogger to better understand the content creation and monetization practices of modern bloggers. In Chapter 1, I introduce readers to my blog and discuss some current lines of scholarship on blogging. In Chapter 2, I discuss my research methods and justify my use of autoethnography for my study. In Chapters 3 and 4, I explain my content creation and monetization processes in detail. In Chapter 5, I draw conclusions from my analysis and provide a few further directions for research. My suggestions for future research include to analyze other bloggers' work, use different research methods in addition to autoethnography, and look at different types of blogs instead of just sites in the lifestyle category. One of my key takeaways from my research is that blogging is an interdisciplinary activity that requires skills in not just writing, but design, technology, and marketing.

Conducting and disseminating humanities research is fast becoming a highly technological endeavor. The variety of multimedia options for presenting information changes the questions we ask and the answers we find as well as the problems we encounter and the solutions we devise. The following essays provide an account of creating a digital edition of John Cleland's The Dictionary of Love using XML. The project utilizes traditional literary research methods while working toward an untraditional digital final product, a characteristic that highlights the feedback loop between form and function. Thus, the purpose of this project is twofold: to provide students and scholars information and analysis on The Dictionary of Love and, in the process, to examine and discuss the challenges, drawbacks and benefits of producing the content as a web-compatible resource. / Master of Arts

Seit 2013 bin ich Teil des Teams zur Bereitstellung eines online Kurses für die Ägyptologie Studenten der Universität Leipzig im Weiterbildungsmoodle. Dieser Moodlekurs wurde von Prof. Dr. Kai-Christian Bruhn (FH Mainz), Dr. Franziska Naether und Dr. Dietrich Raue konzipiert und gestaltet und ist obligatorischer Teil des Moduls \"Einführung in die Ägyptologie\" an der Universität Leipzig. Daher richtet sich der Kurs vorrangig an Bachelor-Studenten, aber auch Studenten höherer Semester und sonstige Interessenten nehmen an dem zusätzlichen Angebot teil. Der Online-Kurs fand in diesem Jahr bereits zum vierten Mal statt und startet zum Wintersemester (WS 2015/16) in die fünfte Runde. Die Lehrveranstaltung findet komplett im Internet statt und die Teilnehmer entscheiden selbst wann und wo sie den Unterrichtsstoff im Laufe der zwei Semester erfüllen. Mittels dieser neuen Lernform werden die Teilnehmer zum Umgang mit digitalen Daten und deren automatisierten Verarbeitung angeleitet, die für die Studenten der Ägyptologie bereits während des Studiums Verwendung finden, z.B. bei der Auswertung des archäologischen Materials. Darüber hinaus setzen sie sich mit seriösen und unverzichtbaren Internet-Ressourcen auseinander. Hierbei liefert die Übung eine Einweisung im Umgang mit unterschiedlichen frei verfügbaren Programmen zur Textverarbeitung, Betrachtung und Bearbeitung von Grafiken und Geoinformationssystemen, die eine selbstständige Vertiefung ermöglichen. Die neuartige Lehrveranstaltung richtet sich somit auf die in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend angewachsene Nachfrage auf die langfristige Speicherung wissenschaftlicher Daten (z.B. aus Datenbanken u. Bildarchiven, kartographische Daten v. Satelliten) sowie deren interdisziplinärer Nutzung. Sie hat somit seit ihrer Anlegung weiterhin Pioniercharakter an der Uni Leipzig. So soll der fertig aufbereitete Kurs künftig im IANUS-Forschungsdatenzentrum einem breiteren Publikum zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Wie das in unserem Falle im Hochschulalltag konkret erfolgt soll mit Hilfe einer Power-Point Präsentation an einigen praktischen Beispielen veranschaulicht werden. Es gilt nun Schlüsse aus den bereits erfolgten Kurs-Durchläufen zu ziehen sowie Probleme und Anregungen zu besprechen. Gerne würde ich mich mit den anderen Teilnehmern der Tagung über Innovative Lehr- und Lernmethoden austauschen.

Internationale Sommerakademien als intensive Spezialkurse für fortgeschrittene Studierende und junge Wissenschaftler/innen haben sich seit einigen Jahren auch in Sachsen etabliert. Unter Beteiligung der SLUB fand an der TU Dresden Anfang Oktober 2013 zum Beispiel der Kurs „Digitization and its Impact on Society“. An der Universität Leipzig bot sich bereits zum vierten Mal im Rahmen der Europäischen Sommeruniversität „Kulturen und Technologien“ Raum für interdisziplinären Wissens- und Erfahrungsaustausch für Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen.

Das Projekt C01 „Unser Feld ist die Welt“: Geographische Gesellschaften 1821–1914 im internationalen Vergleich des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1199 untersucht Geographische Gesellschaften als wichtige Akteure von Verräumlichungsprozessen unter Globalisierungsbedingungen. In diesem Working Paper stellen wir die dafür am Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL) entwickelte Methodik bzw. die zugrundeliegende Methodologie vor. Sie bedient sich konventioneller Verfahren der Datengenerierung und -verarbeitung und verbindet diese mit computergestützten Analysen aus dem Bereich der Digital Humanities, die auf diese Daten angewandt werden. Die Digital Humanities befinden sich an der Schnittstelle zwischen Informatik sowie Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Sie gelten als Bindeglied zwischen beiden Disziplinen, weil sie digitale Methoden als Werkzeuge zur Bearbeitung digitalisierter Materialien der Geisteswissenschaften anwenden.

This dissertation employs both traditional and digital tools to analyze fictional texts through the converging lenses of narratology, queer theory, and trauma studies. I am invested specifically in the work fictional narratives perform within the current cultural context, which is itself problematized by our increasingly fractured media landscape. While most of the work on trauma and queerness examines the trauma that is often implicated in the experience of being queer, I take a different approach, investigating ways in which the experience of trauma is itself queer. Drawing on medical and psychiatric studies of post-traumatic stress disorder, I posit that the fragmented temporal and affective space of trauma is also the space of queerness. “Ring Around the Rosie” locates an intersection between Edelman’s anti-futurism and Muñoz’s utopian hope in the disavowal of the restrictive circularity of traumatic memory, and the subsequent embrace of Stockton’s concept of lateral growth. Written language and linear narrative inevitably fail to adequately reconstruct, convey, and process trauma because traumatic memories are formed in the part of the brain that functions outside of language and chronological time and relies instead on sensory experience. I confront this barrier through queer temporality and a form of destabilized communication that does not rely on such language alone. Since any true employment of the concept of the queer must itself perform queerness, I allow my analysis to develop in a manner as fragmented and multiplicitous as television programming itself, which includes an approach of critical closeness and an increasingly organizationally destabilized presentation of the argument. This project’s preoccupation with form stems, in part, from my desire to not only allow for but demand an affective and personal component to academic research and analysis. The supplementary digital module culminates this study of form through its online presentation that enacts the theories argued within it. Paradoxically, “Ring Around the Rosie” is unified through fragmentation: of traumatic memories, of queer temporality, and of viewer engagement with fictional texts. / 10000-01-01

The case for the new aesthetic -- Manifestations of the new aesthetic -- Glitch ontology and the new aesthetic -- Setting the stage : the new precursorsand boundaries for a new aesthetic art -- Letting go : new aesthetic artists and the new aesthetic art that works -- Teleology and the new aesthetic -- Conclusion -- References -- Biographies. "The new aesthetic and art: constellations of the postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory andcontemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic in visual arts, design, and software, find its presence resonating in various kinds of digital imagery, and track its agency in everyday effects of the intertwined physical world and the digital realm. Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha bring to light an original perspective that identifies an autonomous quality in common digital objects and examples ofart that are increasingly an important influence for today's culture and society." / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1118/thumbnail.jpg

Creature design and sculpture is about representing life with three dimensions. To begin designing a creature, the process begins by looking at real life. Studies of existing wildlife and anatomy reference provided the foundation for the creation process. The goal of this project was to study creature design and attempt creating feasible results. The background and location origin of these creatures are based on the environmental location of Arizona. The goal was creating and rendering four creatures with the attempt of achieving fantasy realism.

Poster presentation from the Living the Future 8 Conference, April 23-24, 2012, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / Digital Humanities is a collaborative approach to humanist work using digital tools that encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and challenge current theoretical paradigms using technologies. This poster will present an environmental scanning process for discovering opportunities for the University of Arizona Libraries to take a leadership role in the area of Digital Humanities on campus. These first steps lead to identifying, collecting, and translating information about external influences into useful recommendations that provide input into our decision-making process.

Using some of the tools developed mainly for authorship authentication, this study develops a toolbox of techniques towards enabling computers to detect aesthetic qualities in literature. The literature review suggests that the style markers that indicate a particular author may be adapted to show literary style that constitutes a "good" book. An initial experiment was carried out to see to what extent the computer can identify specific literary features both before and after undergoing a "corruption" of text by translating and re-translating the texts. Preliminary results were encouraging, with up to 90 per cent of the literary features being identifi ed, suggesting that literary characteristics are robust and quanti fiable. An investigation is carried out into current and historic literary criticism to determine how the texts can be classified as "good literature". Focus groups, interviews and surveys are used to pinpoint the elements of literariness as experienced by human readers that identify a text as "good". Initially identified by human experts, these elements are confirmed by the reading public. Using Classics as a genre, 100 mainly fiction texts are taken from the Gutenberg Project and ranked according to download counts from the Gutenberg website, an indicator of literary merit (Ashok et al., 2013). The texts are equally divided into five grades: four according to the download rankings and one of non- fiction texts. From these, factor analysis and mean averages determine the metrics that determine the literary quality. The metrics are qualified by a model named CoBAALT (computer-based aesthetic analysis of literary texts). CoBAALT assesses texts by Jane Austen and D. H. Lawrence and determines the degree to which they conform to the metrics for literary quality; the results demonstrate conformity with peer reviewed literary criticism.