English @ SUNY Geneseo | Allison Maier | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/am35/activity/ Activity feed for Allison Maier. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6790d4af86d9ad81a5ee7a9610d7b363 Allison Maier wrote a new blog post Black Politicians in the Post-Civil War Natchez Region in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9331/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:51:07 -0500 After the Civil War, there was a surge of African-Americans into politics. This lasted until the late 19th century, when racist practices and legislature forced many African-Americans out of the political […]

]]> 0 d5446679b718d6ec53a4f98b6f73063d Allison Maier wrote a new blog post Progress Report: Map of Black Politicians in the Natchez Region following the Civil War in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8968/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:38:54 -0500 For my project I have been working with Professor Behrend’s research on black politicians in the Natchez region after the Civil War. My final goal is to create a map, or at least the prototype for a map, d […]

]]> 0 66142f1d89edd9b05d4f0730376c8a1f Allison Maier wrote a new blog post Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American City in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8700/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 01:40:32 -0500 Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American City is a digital mapping project connected to the book of the same name by Colin Gordon. This project uses various programs, particularly ArcGIS and Social Explorer, to […]

]]> 0 9f5de0cf56cf340ee4afebd11aceed43 Allison Maier replied to the topic Visions of Education in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/visions-of-education/#post-1094 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:43:58 -0500 Wells’ main problems with education are that it is not widespread enough, it is segmented, it is too influenced by political action/ideas, and it has not evolved at the same pace as the rest of society.

The first two points speak to how Wells views education as limited, which heavily concerns him. Wells wants a universal, synthesized education, t…[Read more]

]]> c38e601d70df52535b7870e86105fd4e Allison Maier replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/gleick-on-information/#post-1077 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:09:18 -0500
  • Like Zach, I had always thought of a computer as something that existed outside the physical world. The “language” a computer used was so foreign that trying to understand how any of it worked was overwhelming. For example, all of commands we have been using in class, like “cd” or “chmod,” were confusing because they did not make sense to me…

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    ]]>         a8359bac8459a4eb69dcf85df25aa969 Allison Maier replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/gleick-on-words/#post-1066 Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:03:51 -0500 The fact that most surprised me was when Gleick said that the word lyrics did not exist until the nineteenth century. I can understand if that specific word did not exist, but it seems to me that there must have been a word which came before it that had at least a similar meaning. As Gleick discussed, songs are as old as civilization so it seems…[Read more]

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