Shai Goldfarb Cohen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Digital Media, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include how informal learning communities use digital tools to learn Jewish texts. In her dissertation she will focus on how literature, reading, and learning of Jewish texts can be taught collaboratively using digital tools. For example, in what ways do people learn to become participants in an online Jewish studies community?
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This project examines the genre of the “statement of solidarity,” a prose form that has become increasingly widespread in recent months in the wake of anti-black police violence. Using basic text mining and natural language processing techniques to draw out overarching linguistic patterns, it considers the formal and rhetorical tropes of “solidarity” to better understand how the use of specific rhetorical structures and locutions correlate with public perception.
Cody Chun
Co-director, Poetic Media Lab
PhD Candidate, English
Cody Chun is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. He studies contemporary U.S. literature (with a focus on multiethnic fiction), literature and philosophy, and race and ethnicity. His current research explores how experimental form in contemporary U.S. literature structures and facilitates ethical thinking.