FOS: Save the Date: DH Locus, Nov 4th, 2021; Spin-Offs: The MI Diaries Project as a Starting Point

[Wagner, Suzanne]

Friends of Sociolinguistics,

This fall's MSU Digital Humanities symposium is looking for 5-7 minute talks on research that uses the MI Diaries<https://mi-diaries.org> project's speech/transcription data, app, tools etc for new purposes. Work-in-progress is encouraged. So if you or a student can see some an idea for a potential project that spins off from MI Diaries, perhaps for a summer or fall endeavor, consider submitting an abstract when the call comes out in September!

Please feel free to circulate this save-the-date widely to colleagues across and beyond MSU.

Suzanne



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November 4, 2021

2pm – 4pm



SPIN-OFFS:

THE MI DIARIES PROJECT AS A STARTING POINT



What are all the ways that an existing Digital Humanities project can be adapted, grafted, remixed, and spun off into other projects? How can we creatively employ methods, ideas, data, and tools from one research group and use them to feed something new?



MI Diaries<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mi-diaries.org/__;!!HXCxUKc!iRomE3VSkUBuADHhCJzx6JQTt7Sz19_3FfO-efqsG9Rvs2zCrZ9LDejehBhSL9o$> has been collecting self-recorded audio reflections from Michigan residents since the Covid-19 lockdowns began in spring 2020. Participants respond to weekly questions like What are you grateful for this week? and Are there any news stories that have stood out to you lately? MI Diaries was developed to capture the effects of social distancing on everyday language. But it has since proven to be fertile ground for the nurturing of other kinds of research as well. The MI Diaries mobile recording app has been adapted for a study of what people learn about Judaism from watching television. The audio reflections and their transcriptions are being employed to teach learners of English about grammatical structures. Youth participants in a photovoice project have used the app to orally respond to questions related to the images they have captured.



[Icon  Description automatically generated]We invite colleagues across MSU to engage with the MI Diaries website and app to see if they can use its audio archive, app infrastructure, transcriptions or other materials – or perhaps just be inspired in ways that we cannot yet imagine.



This DH LOCUS will provide a collegial forum for presentation of MI Diaries-related projects and for broad discussion of how interdisciplinary research can benefit from the spin-off process. We encourage wide participation from scholars in any discipline to share developments in their research at any stage (including brainstorming, works in progress, and/or fully developed projects).



Presenters already expected include:



•      Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Evans Wagner on forging collegial connections from the MI Diaries project.

•      Laura Yares on adapting the MI Diaries data collection infrastructure for digital ethnography in the study of Judaism and television.

•      Charlene Polio and Danielle Brown on creating a website for TESOL educators that uses MI Diaries data to illustrate colloquial American English.

•      Brian Wibby and Jackie Martin on partnering with MI Diaries to support a youth photovoice project.



Locus is a regular forum for students, faculty, and researchers to share ideas and works in progress and to build relationships through short (5-7 minute) presentations. Each Locus is built around a broad yet distinct theme, method, or topic and to foster a vibrant, collaborative, and active research community interested in digital humanities and social science work.



To brainstorm with the MI Diaries team, contact Betsy Sneller, sneller7 at msu.edu<mailto:sneller7 at msu.edu>.

To connect with the DH Engagement and Outreach Committee, contact Max Evjen, evjendav at msu.edu<mailto:evjendav at msu.edu>



A call for submissions will be sent in early Fall 2021.


Max Evjen
evjendav at msu.edu<mailto:evjendav at msu.edu>
TW:@cantus94
He/Him/His

Arts, Cultural Management, & Museum Studies
Digital Humanities Coordinator
Site-Specific Performance
Department of Theatre
Michigan State University

Linton Hall
479 West Circle, Room 308B
East Lansing, MI 48823

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