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Friends of Sociolinguistics,</div>
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This fall's MSU Digital Humanities symposium is looking for 5-7 minute talks on research that uses the
<a href="https://mi-diaries.org" title="https://mi-diaries.org">MI Diaries</a> 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!</div>
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Please feel free to circulate this save-the-date widely to colleagues across and beyond MSU.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> cal-faculty <cal-faculty-bounces@egr.msu.edu> on behalf of Evjen, Max <evjendav@msu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 3, 2021 12:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cal-faculty@egr.msu.edu <cal-faculty@egr.msu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Save the Date: DH Locus, Nov 4th, 2021; Spin-Offs: The MI Diaries Project as a Starting Point</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:14.0pt">November 4, 2021</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:14.0pt">2pm – 4pm</span></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">SPIN-OFFS:</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">THE MI DIARIES PROJECT AS A STARTING POINT</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt">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?</span></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mi-diaries.org/__;!!HXCxUKc!iRomE3VSkUBuADHhCJzx6JQTt7Sz19_3FfO-efqsG9Rvs2zCrZ9LDejehBhSL9o$" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt">MI Diaries</span></a><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt">
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
<i class="">What are you grateful for this week? </i>and <i class="">Are there any news stories that have stood out to you lately?
</i>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. </span></p>
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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.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">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). </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Presenters already expected include:</span></p>
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</span></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Evans Wagner</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:12pt"> on forging collegial connections from the MI Diaries project.</span></p>
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</span></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Laura Yares</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:12pt"> on adapting the MI Diaries data collection infrastructure for digital ethnography in the study of Judaism and television.</span></p>
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</span></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Charlene Polio and Danielle Brown</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:12pt"> on creating a website for TESOL educators that uses MI Diaries data to illustrate colloquial American English.</span><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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</span></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12pt">Brian Wibby and Jackie Martin</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:12pt"> on partnering with MI Diaries to support a youth photovoice project.</span><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">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.</span><span class="" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt">To brainstorm with the MI Diaries team, contact Betsy Sneller,
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:12.0pt">To connect with the DH Engagement and Outreach Committee, contact Max Evjen,
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“Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples. The university resides on land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.”</div>
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