For the final project of this class, I chose to deepen the analysis of the dataset I have previously studied for the Data Project: it is a collection of around 4,000 tweets, produced during Summer 2015 for #LabExpo, an experiment on Twitter proposed by the Italian start-up TwLetteratura connected to Expo Milano 2015. This experiment is based -as […]

The data set I chose for my project is a collection of tweets, produced during Summer 2015 for #LabExpo, an experiment on Twitter proposed by the Italian start-up TwLetteratura connected to Expo Milano 2015. This experiment is based on the methodology developed by TwLetteratura, which takes advantage of Twitter’s peculiarities (synthesis, sharing, real-time interaction) to involve readers in a […]

What I found relevant, in last weeks reading for our classes, is the relation established between space and humanities. At a first sight, indeed, and also basing my thoughts on what I previously learned and how I previously studied humanities, I was sure that space does not deal with humanities. I did not see a […]

On October 4th, with a lot of the students attending our DH praxis seminar (and, of course, other people not attending it), I participated to the workshop “Databases Part I”, with the two digital fellows Ian Phillips and Tahir Butt. The workshop was nice and very useful: Ian and Tahir were very nice and always available to […]

During last weeks, I was reading Alan Liu’s “From Reading to Social Computing” as part of the requirement of our class and I was struck by a passage in his essay that I found very interesting to define one of the most important change the DH environment is producing into the literature field. Alan Liu briefly sketches […]