Tiffany Zhu is a freshman interested in economics and planning coursework in MCS. At CESTA, she is helping create data visualizations for Lacuna, an online learning platform specially designed for the needs of teachers of literature. Currently she is learning d3 Javascript, the language in which she will create the visualizations. Though she didn’t come in expecting to work in programming and development, she loves the problem-solving component of development so far and especially appreciates the opportunity to integrate literature learning with digital platforms.
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The practice of interpretation is one of the key features in Jewish learning and teaching. It is the basis of the Jewish canon, as it created an ongoing engagement with ancient texts, forging connections between them, and creating new meanings. Today, there is an increase in number of online platforms that make Jewish history, thought, philosophy, religion, and education more accessible. The goal of this research is to better understand how learners use and experience the collaborative interpretation of Jewish sacred texts through online platforms.
Free Speech, Regulation, and Democracy in the Digital Age
Free Speech, Regulation, and Democracy in the Digital Age
Following the assumption that the IT-blog sphere represents an avant-garde of technologically- and socially-interested experts, Jens Pohlmann and researchers at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities present a research platform to investigate IT-blogs’ impact on public discussion of matters situated at the intersection of technology and society. Using text and metadata from about 400 IT-blogs from Germany and the U.S. (IT-Blog corpus), we can now study and compare IT-blog sphere discussions of digital policy with the discourses of traditional media settings (newspaper corpus) and policy discussions (policy corpus). Digital Humanities research methods such as assisted close reading, distant reading processes, and the analysis of communication and reference networks will allow for investigations regarding free speech issues, privacy laws, upload filters, AI, or copyright legislation in the digital age. Our goal is to identify the most influential stakeholders in each respective subfield, their communication strategies, and the arguments they bring forward in order to bridge the divide between Germany and the U.S. in matters of digital policy.
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