The JSTOR Labs team visited Austin last week for a weeklong #hackthehumanities residency at UT Libraries.
#AllLivesMatter: The Lives of a Hashtag
Two features appear to characterize Tweets: the 140-character composition and the use of hashtags. Hashtags allow users a range of possibilities: expressing tone and emotion, connecting to like-minded individuals, participating in larger conversations. Their popularity has transcended Twitter, and we now see them employed on other social media platforms, in advertisements,...
To Font or not to Font: Type is the Question
As a writer, the most important concept is getting the message delivered—for it to mean to be conveyed, to be quick, and to be memorable. Maybe it’s that pesky background in advertising or the desire for students to learn or my own struggles with language—spelling is not my strong suit,...
Recap: hypothes.is Workshop
On Friday, September 18, DWRL alum Dr. Jeremy Dean returned to the FAC basement to introduce instructors from around the university to online annotation tool hypothes.is. Tweets from the event are collected below and include tips for using hypothes.is in different disciplines, sample assignments and previews of coming attractions--as well as...
Activist Twitter and Race: Upcoming Projects
This semester, the Activist Twitter and Race Research Group will produce a wide range of content to expand the lab's resources for understanding communication, resistance, and identity in the digital age. (more…)
The World, But Better
The Augmented Reality Research Group is excited to introduce our project for the fall 2015 semester. But first of all, what is augmented reality? Commonly abbreviated AR, it is indeed just what it sounds like: taking the real world around you and enhancing it with the digital world. One of the...
Typography: Up and Coming
This sentence is in Lato. Most likely. (more…)
A Long Goodbye to Currents
We've been saying goodbye to Currents in Electronic Literacy for a while now. In 2014, the journal published its retrospective issue. In the Spring of 2015, we made the official announcement that Currents would cease publication. In the announcement, we wrote, "After a great deal of soul searching and discussion,...
Looking Back at Viz.
As the DWRL bids farewell to Viz., its award-winning visual rhetoric blog, we look back at this popular publication and its place in the field of visual rhetoric. (more…)
Single-Stream Pedagogy
Throughout its history the Digital Writing and Research Lab has maintained a commitment to digital pedagogy. In his history of the early days of the lab, John Slatin mentions one of our first projects, a digital archive. (more…)