1. The document introduces digital humanities through the analysis of cultural productions using tailored toolkits of digital methods. 2. It discusses analyzing complex properties of cultural productions and moving toward design-based learning through possible approaches like creating analytical maps of selected cultural productions using various data gathering and information processing techniques. 3. Examples of student-created analytical maps are shown that reveal patterns in the types of cultural productions analyzed and top artists and directors.

1. Introducing digital humanities
through the analysis of
cultural productions
Everardo Reyes
Université de Paris 13
ereyes.net
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, July 11th.
DH2014 | Digital Humanities 2014

2. 1. tailored toolkits of digital methods
2. analysis of complex properties of cultural productions
3. toward design-based learning
possible approaches to our contribution:3

3. create your own Analytical Maps
select a cultural production
gather data: media + metadata
perform information processing techniques
analyse with social and human sciences methods
toolkits of digital methods

4. Examples of Analytical Maps
made by students

5. Student Sonia Haddad
Large JPG made with Photoshop

6. networks
chromatic
values
word clouds
text analytics

7. Our toolkit relies on web-based software and services
Get texts Text Analysis
Wikipedia,
Projet Gutenberg, newpapers,
Gallica BNF,
Open Edition Books
Word Count Tools, Wordle,
Ngram Viewer, Voyant,
Many Eyes,
Wolfram Personal Analytics,
Google Account Activity
Image Analysis Get Metadata
Pixlr, Rainbow Color Tools, Color Inspector
3D, Histogram Viewer, ColoRotate
IMDB, AllMusic, mvdbase, Amazon, Google
Books, Comic Book DB, Google Zeitgeist
Use and create networks
Touchgraph, LinkedIn maps,
Many Eyes,
Get Friend Map, LivePlasma,
Fineo/Raw

8. Revealing student patterns
• type of productions they chose? mainly albums and films;
• top 6 artists: Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, The Velvet
Underground, Lou Reed, Rihanna, Beyoncé;
• top 4 movie directors: B. Sonnenfeld, Q. Tarantino, R. Zemeckis, J.
Cameron

9. Supports used to design the analytical maps

10. use of toolkits (re)design of tools,
services,
interfaces
…toward design-based learning
use of media
software to design
your own analytical maps

11. coming activities for
designing tools

12. Analysis of ideology and algorithmic procedures of UI:
what our tools have virtualized and/or remediated?

13. Experimental Media Visualizations
new models to analyse images

14. 3D print the object of analysis

15. Thank you for your attention
E. Reyes, Université de Paris 13
// ereyes.net
http://bit.ly/1fMDOgV
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