Marvin Croy

November 22, 2013 by Marvin Croy
disciplines: Philosophy

Research Interests

Cognition, Teaching/Learning, Appropriate Technology

Research Projects

Current

Modeling pattern matching processes that occur in deductive inferences

Individualizing instruction for deductive proof construction (co-investigators include Dr. Tiffany Barnes (NC State) and Dr. John Stamper (Carnegie Mellon University)

Past

Investigating Incrementalism as a normative theory of technology development and seeing the development of instructional technology through this framework.

Teaching Projects

Current

Developing web based materials for teaching cognitive science

Past

Designing interface and pedagogical dimensions for java applets used in teaching deductive, propositional logic

Akinwumi Ogundiran

November 19, 2013 by Akinwumi Ogundiran
disciplines: Africana Studies

Research Interests

The digital aspects of my research focus on Africa’s largest protected sacred grove and a World Heritage Site in Nigeria, the Osun Grove. I am studying the landscape and cultural history of the grove (ca. 1590-2014) using multiple research methods and sources including archaeology, material science, ecology, ethnography, performance, and archives.

Research Projects

Current

Landscape and Cultural History of Osun Grove, Nigeria

Past

Blacks on Stamp: A Digital Archive of Stamps Representing Modern Black Experience Worldwide

Teaching Projects

Current

 

Past

Elizabeth Miller

November 05, 2013 by Elizabeth Miller
disciplines: English

Research Interests
My research interests focus on issues surrounding the learning of English as a second/additional language, particularly issues regarding identity construction in and through language learning, power dynamics, and language ideologies. I investigate how these social dynamics are constituted in/as interaction, using fine-grained discourse analysis

Research Projects
Past
Close analysis of discourse involving adult immigrants to the U.S.

Current
I am creating a searchable database comprised of texts and video-recorded interactions produced by members of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS). I will then conduct linguistic analysis of how INSS members define social sustainability, focusing on word frequencies, word strings, metaphoric characterizations of social sustainability, nominalizations, clause transitivity, among other linguistic features.

Teaching Projects
Current
ENGL 3162 Language and the Virtual World

In preparation
ENGL 4267 Identity, Social Interaction and Community in Digital Spaces

Nicole Peterson

October 18, 2013 by Nicole Peterson
disciplines: Anthropology

Research Interests

Sustainability, economics, food, international development

Research Projects

Current

  • Natural resource management and economic development in Baja California Sur, Mexico
  • Adaptation to climate change through insurance in Ethiopia
  • Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (network-building)
  • Food access and security in Charlotte

Teaching Projects

Current

Applied anthropology and service learning

Robin James

October 12, 2013 by Robin James
disciplines: Philosophy

Research Interests

Feminism, race, queer theory, music, sound studies, aesthetics, tech & society, afrofuturism

I am interested in the critical-theoretical study and creative use of digital sound technologies. I am also a contributor to Cyborgology, a blog on technology and society.

Research Projects

Current

  • Music For Drones
  • Make It Rain (Steve Reich’s “It’s Gonna Rain” updated for social media & contemporary hip hop)
  • A yet untitled manuscript on sound and neoliberalism (incl big data).
  • Ongoing contributions to the tech & society blog Cyborgology.

Past

  • Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen
  • Robo-Diva R&B

Teaching Projects

Current

Past

Media Technology & Society (COMM3052 undergraduate course): Topics cover media ecology, mass media, new/social media, media culture, and Internet governance (multiple semesters)

Jon Crane

October 12, 2013 by Jon Crane
disciplines: Communication Studies

Research Interests

  • Cultural Studies
  • Digital technologies and popular music
  • Film Studies

Research Projects

Current

Along with my colleague Min Jiang, I am researching the impact of search engines on the serial production and dissemination of knowledge.

Past

For the past several years I have been researching the impact of digital technologies on the reception and dissemination of current and dated pop musics

Teaching Projects

Current

I am currently teaching an Honors class on the documentary film. Recent developments in digital technologies are radically reshaping the possiblities for documentary film. Production, dissemination and reception are all in flux thanks to the shift from analog to digital film production.

Past

Debra Smith

October 12, 2013 by Debra Smith
disciplines: Africana Studies

Research Interests

Role television plays in the educational process.

Research Projects

Current

Digital strageties to transform Africana Studies

Past

Role television plays in what children and people from other countries think they know about Americans.

Teaching Projects

Current

Redesign of the Africana Studies minor into a 100% online minor.

Past

Computer based courses on 20th century German cultural history .

Balaka Basu

October 12, 2013 by Balaka Basu
disciplines: English

Research Interests

children’s literature; digital humanities; fan studies; reception studies; narrative theory; television studies; early modern fiction; nineteenth century fiction

Research Projects

Current

  1. Fan Fictions and Continuations: A Literary Genre from 1590 to 2010 (Book project)
  2. Reading Digitally: Participatory Culture and the Book (Essay project)
  3. Creative Criticism (a peer-reviewed journal in which fiction, games and video would function as scholarship.)

Past

Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers (2013)

Teaching Projects

Current

Past

Pilar Blitvich

October 12, 2013 by Pilar Blitvich
disciplines: English

Research Interests

  • Language aggression and conflict
  • Im/politeness models and theories
  • Genre theory
  • Identity construction
  • Traditional and digitally mediated communication

Research Projects

Current

  • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
  • Understanding the evolution of conflict: private to public
  • Diaspora and hybrid identity construction on-line: the Latino case

Past

  • Interaction on YouTube’s textual facility
  • Reality television: aggression and identity construction
  • Proposing a integrative im/politeness model
  • Reconceptualizing face and identity
  • New (digital) genres of political discourse.

Teaching Projects

Current

New concentration on language and digital technologies – preparing new, core course for the concentration: ENGL 4168 Multimodality and texts.

Past

Rachel Plotnick

October 12, 2013 by Rachel Plotnick
disciplines: Communication Studies

Research Interests

  • User Interfaces
  • History of Information/Communication/Media Technologies
  • Human-Machine Relationships
  • Science and Technology Studies

Research Projects

Current

Specifically related to digital humanities:

“The Button Archive”
http://www.rachelplotnick.com/button/

My hope is to digitize the materials I have collected related to push buttons and to make an accessible archive. This is a time consuming process, however, and without funds (or much time), I haven’t been able to devote much effort to this project.

Past

Specifically related to digital humanities:

“Dad’s Cancer: A Multimedia Illness Narrative Experiment”
http://gnovisjournal.org/2007/08/19/dads-cancer-a-multimedia-illness-narrative-experiment/
This was a digital chapter of my master’s thesis (the version online is low quality and compressed compared to the original).

Teaching Projects

Current

Past