Category: ADHC Talks

Assistant Professor and Digital Scholarship Librarian Carrie Hill shares her work exploring the information behaviors of fanfiction writers who post their work on Archive of Our Own (AO3), self-described as “A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic.” She will share the inspiration for her project, challenges she faced while trying to answer her initial question, and where those challenges eventually led her with this study.

During this ADHC Talk, Sara and Jeri will talk about the future of DH: What technologies will have big impact? What infrastructure will be necessary to support sustained DH scholarship? How do we train future DH scholars?

In the second episode of ADHC Talks, Sara Whitver talks with Chemical Engineer Amanda Koh. Amanda runs the Koh Laboratory which “focuses on engineering soft materials and material interfaces to enable new stretchable electronics, soft robotics, smart devices, and porous materials.” One of Amanda’s current projects is to design a wearable device that helps singers measure their breath while singing, with the ultimate hope of making this device more widely available for breathing therapies. Amanda and Sara will talk about what it means to design and create wearable devices and what kinds of ways these wearable devices can change our perception of what it means to be human and understand our bodies relative to the world around us.