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Tyler Waldriff started the topic What is Lost on the Cahulawassee: Psychological Consequences in Deliverance in the forum Film Talk 5 years, 1 month ago
Four friends take two canoes down one ferocious river in the remote Georgian wilderness. What could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, a lot. John Boorman’s Deliverance follows the harrowing journey of four “city slickers” weekend retreat down the Cahulawassee River. The men seek to escape the monotony of their regular lives to reclaim some aspec…[Read more]
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Tyler Waldriff joined the group Film Talk 5 years, 2 months ago
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Tyler Waldriff wrote a new blog post Sandstone Trail Final Blog Post in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 4 months ago
At long last, my digital humanities project, “The Sandstone Trail,” is complete. With it, I had set out to create an archive of noteworthy buildings that utilized the famed Medina Sandstone in New York. I wan […]
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Tyler Waldriff wrote a new blog post Medina Map in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
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Tyler Waldriff wrote a new blog post Progress: Sandstone Trail in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
Finally, I’ve managed to get an instance of Omeka up and running, and have begun transcribing my information from my Excel spreadsheet to Omeka. The goal of my project is to still create an archive of buildings […]
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Tyler Waldriff wrote a new blog post Visualizing Emancipation in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 6 months ago
“Visualizing Emancipation” provides a detailed map of all known locations in the U.S. where a slave was emancipated in the Civil War era. This project in particular has benefited greatly from being created dig […]
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Tyler Waldriff replied to the topic Visions of Education in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
The issue that stuck out most to me in Well’s World Brain was his critique on the subject matter that is taught to children in elementary school, under the section, “The Informative Content of Education.” Here, Wells states that the problem stems from elementary schools, which “does not properly inform,” due to the fact that it focuses on topics t…[Read more]
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Tyler Waldriff replied to the topic Vannevar Bush's Memex in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- The biggest challenge faced by researchers at the time would not only be finding an easy way to access the copious amounts of data that existed (and also those that would be created in the future), but also finding a way to share that data. For as necessary as finding the information is, it doesn’t mean a whole lot if the researcher is unable…
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Tyler Waldriff replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- Prior to reading the chapter, I always saw my computer as a machine of many different parts that function as a base for other program to interact with, creating a near infinite number of way in which the base computer can be modified, to provide a vast amount of content to the user, whether it be for information or entertainment. I now see…
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Tyler Waldriff replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- I find it fascinating that the genesis of the dictionary came about from one man’s selfless mission to help others “understand and use hard words,” and how far it has come since then. The fact that Cawdrey believed the time he lived in was an age of “information explosion,” and that his word dictionary was a milestone of the era, really b…
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Tyler Waldriff joined the group Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
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Tyler Waldriff became a registered member 6 years, 7 months ago