Reading, due by class time on Monday:
Bill Nichols, “The Voice of Documentary,” in Alan Rosenthal, ed., New Challenges for Documentary
Group Work, post due by 8:00am on Monday:
Together as a group you should create a detailed site map that outlines the organization of the assets you presented in class for the last assignment. Remember that your project needs to cover the following areas: spatial history, data mining and analysis, textual analysis, and visual and aural culture. All four of these areas should be represented in your site map.
You may design and publish your site map outside of our class blog, but write a post with the map embedded (preferable) or linked to.
Your post should include the following:
- A statement of your historical question in a single sentence
- A visual representation of how your final product will be organized for readers/viewers (this is the site map) — be as specific as you can about how users will navigate through the various forms of material you will present
- Reference to tools that will be employed to analyze data before it gets presented on your site
- Reference to tools that will be employed to display information on your site
Reading Review:
Philip J. Ethington, “Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge: A Multimedia Essay to Accompany the December Issue of The American Historical Review.”
- Free write about the organization of this site
- Navigation?
- Methods of data analysis
- Means of media deployment?
Discsussion of Inventory of Assets
- Group by group review
- Restatement of guiding historical question
- Detail of inventory of assets
Next Steps
Instigator Group members: Robert Sorenson, Jordan Smith, Felipe Francois
Archiving History Digitally Historical question: What effect did the debates have on, specifically, the 1960, 1992, and 2012 presidential election outcomes?
Workload: Jordan will be covering the 1960 debates/election, Robert will be researching the 1992 debates/election, and Felipe will be working on this year’s debates/elections. We will be focusing on undecided voters, as they are the most influenced by debates. Some of the outlets we are considering for our debate feedback are CNN, Fox, the New York Times qand other online sources.
Some obvious challenges we anticipate are with respect to collecting data. Like getting access to recordings, transcripts and poll data of the debates. Another problem is how do we put the information together so that it makes sense and reflect the actual debate. Lastly keeping our own biases at bay so that we represent the facts as they appear.
Possible sources for the debates are:
Commission on Presidential Debates.- http://www.debates.org/
2012 Election Central– http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-debate-schedule/2012-presidential-debate-schedule/
FactCheck.org. – http://factcheck.org/2012/11/obamas-numbers-updated/
Pew Research Center– http://pewresearch.org/
270 To Win– 270toWin,
Gallup –gallup polls,
We plan to use wordle, Fusion Table and other major social networking sites, such as Twitter, tumblr to give a gage of this presidential election. For the other earlier years we’ll use exit polls of those elections since we didn’t have those technology in the years we choose. We will be doing more research on how we will handle the issue of data mining.
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