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  1. Feb 2019
    1. The strategy is also celebrated for President Obama’s 2008 and especially 2012 campaigns, where his staff maintained a connected and thorough database of a large portion of American voters. They knew, for instance, that people who drink Dr. Pepper, watch the Golf Channel, drive a Land Rover, and eat at Cracker Barrel are both very likely to vote, and very unlikely to vote Democratic. These insights lead to the right political ads targeted exactly at those they were most likely to sway.

      This is insane. Cool, creepy, and insane.

    2. Networks open up the world. Over the past four hundred years, the reach of the West extended to the globe, overtaking trade routes created first by eastern conquerors. From these explorations, we produced new medicines and technologies. Concomitant with this expansion came unfathomable genocide and a slave trade that spanned many continents and far too many centuries. Despite the efforts of the Western World, it could only keep the effects of globalization to itself for so long.

      I don't mean to belittle the aforementioned and strenuous work of the Western world, but this portion of the reading is somewhat offensive. It probably may be simply my opinion, but it seems as though the author of this text willingly credits the Western world with the creation of networking and its power. Despite my hot take, I do agree that the advent of the networking world did open up the world tremendously.

    1. we are offering a new way for both museum visitors (both online and physical, if we have installation in a museum) to connect to the collections; - visualizations which show all collection organized by different criteria complement currently dominant search paradigm; - visitors can discover patterns across all of museum holdings or particular collections - actively making new discoveries themselves as opposed to only being recipients of expert knowledge; - visitors can discover related images using variety of criteria; - visitors can discover images by other artists similar to their already favorite works; - visitors can navigate through collections in many additional ways (in contrast to a physical installation allows only one way to go through the exhibits); - our techniques are scalable - from large super high resolution displays to desktops to tablets and mobile phones.

      I think this is all very helpful especially if you're trying to make a museum interactive and informative.

    2. Visualization of "Kingdom Hearts"

      Personally, I'm a bit confused as to how these visualizations are able to catch the entirety of the Kingdom Hearts game play. Is it that these are video snapshots of how long the gameplay takes, and that this is on an online interface to see the gameplay? I understand how this works for a singular image, but gameplay is difficult for me to understand.

    1. Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?

      This is most definitely something that I thought of profusely when writing my first journal on DH. I'm interested in hearing first hypotheses!

  2. Jan 2019
    1. but also as a link between evidence and argument. The table became a notetaking device, a way to make annotations and comments about digitized text, image, sound, and video and start to turn these detailed observations into a larger interpretation.

      This is something that is definitely important when interpreting the importance of spreadsheets. It is very easy for an individual to analyze specific text with this process. (As shown in the table above).

    2. There is even an ominous sense of imprisonment: one must literally put ideas into cell blocks.

      In all honesty, this is definitely how I feel about working in spreadsheets. It seems like a compact container for ideas, and oftentimes it does not necessarily look visually pleasing to the eye. But I do see where spreadsheets can come in handy! (Reminds me of my Research class!)

    1. Float along on a verse-less song

      I feel as though this refers to his first verse where he asks others to sing songs of days gone by.

    2. Shut your ears when sirens sing

      When hearing this line, I'm reminded of the singer's need for himself and others in his imaginary world to avoid the realities of the world. I usually connote sirens with Odysseus, and his efforts in listening to sirens so that he can gain resistance to their luring, yet dangerous tunes. Cosmo Sheldrake differs in which he and others must avoid these creatures.

    3. Come along catch

      Despite this not being what I want to talk about, I want to mention that the building up to the lyrics of this song seems very tense, or maybe even as though listeners should prepare for something quirky.