Papers by Ashley Champagne
Designing the Database of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas
and poster of paper 0849 presented at the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht , ... more and poster of paper 0849 presented at the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht , the Netherlands 9-12 July, 2019.
14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022
#MyBodyMyChoice is a well-known hashtag originally created to advocate for women's rights, often ... more #MyBodyMyChoice is a well-known hashtag originally created to advocate for women's rights, often used in discourse about abortion and bodily autonomy. The Covid-19 outbreak prompted governments to take containment measures such as vaccination campaigns and mask mandates. Population groups opposed to such measures started to use the slogan "My Body My Choice" to claim their bodily autonomy. In this paper, we investigate whether the discourse around the hashtag #MyBodyMyChoice on Twitter changed its usage after the Covid-19 outbreak. We observe that the conversation around the hashtag changed in two ways. First, semantically, the hashtag #MyBodyMyChoice drifted towards conversations around Covid-19, especially in messages opposed to containment measures. Second, while before the pandemic users used to share content produced by experts and authorities, after Covid-19 the users' attention has shifted towards individuals.
JMIR Infodemiology
Background Black women in the United States disproportionately suffer adverse pregnancy and birth... more Background Black women in the United States disproportionately suffer adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes compared to White women. Economic adversity and implicit bias during clinical encounters may lead to physiological responses that place Black women at higher risk for adverse birth outcomes. The novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) further exacerbated this risk, as safety protocols increased social isolation in clinical settings, thereby limiting opportunities to advocate for unbiased care. Twitter, 1 of the most popular social networking sites, has been used to study a variety of issues of public interest, including health care. This study considers whether posts on Twitter accurately reflect public discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic and are being used in infodemiology studies by public health experts. Objective This study aims to assess the feasibility of Twitter for identifying public discourse related to social determinants of health and advocacy that influence ...
Matthew Kirshenbaum's essay "What Is An @uthor?" argues that today's social med... more Matthew Kirshenbaum's essay "What Is An @uthor?" argues that today's social media landscape provides authors with a different means to confront their public personas. Authors can tweet back to their readers, like William Gibson tweeted to an MLA panel in January of 2015 on his novel The Peripheral, to engage in immediate and digitally-mediated conversations about their work on a global scale. In this short paper I ask "What is a Reader?" because the Amazon-owned social media site, Goodreads, elevates interpretations of literature by "citizen readers." While literary culture was once accessible primarily to those who had the means to acquire formal education, now literature is widely accessible and frequently free online; this shift in access is tied to an evolving version of literary knowledge in the digital age. I argue that Goodreads has the radical potentiality to disrupt our literary canon, which still largely uplifts White male authors over...
What Is A Reader? How Readers on Goodreads are Changing the Canon in the Twenty-First Century
Digital Humanities Conference, 2020
LibGuides: Citation: Citation Styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
Information on citation, citation management software, plagiarism, copyright, fair use, and creat... more Information on citation, citation management software, plagiarism, copyright, fair use, and creative commons
What Is A Reader? How Readers on Goodreads are Changing the Canon in the Twenty-First Century
LibGuides: Public Humanities: Humanities on the Go
What Is Humanities Research Now
Networking the Canon: Reconstituting the American Literature Canon through Online Distribution Systems
LibGuides: Web Scraping Toolkit: Home
LibGuides: Public Humanities: Museum Tools
LibGuides: Public Humanities: Secondary Sources (Journal Articles)
LibGuides: Public Humanities: Historical Newspapers, Periodicals, & Other Primary Sources
LibGuides: Public Humanities: Journal Articles
LibGuides: Digital Scholarship Resources for Courses: Network Analysis
Reach out for help to integrate digital scholarship methodologies and projects into your courses.
Ithaka S+R provides research and strategic guidance to help the academic and cultural communities... more Ithaka S+R provides research and strategic guidance to help the academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, demographic, and technological change. Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that works to advance and preserve knowledge and to improve teaching and learning through the use of digital technologies. Artstor, JSTOR, and Portico are also part of ITHAKA.
This panel reports on the open, shareable, and reproducible workflow methodology for digital huma... more This panel reports on the open, shareable, and reproducible workflow methodology for digital humanities research developed by the 4Humanities.org "WhatEvery1Says" (WE1S) project. WE1S is topic modeling a large corpus of articles related to the humanities in newspapers, magazines, and other media sources in the U.S., U.K., and Canada from 1981 on. While the panel presents WE1S's conceptual goals and prototype experiments in using outcomes in humanities advocacy, its focus is on the technical and interpretive workflow developed by the project for humanities-oriented data work. WE1S's manifest system for data provenance and workflow management, its virtual workspace manager for integrated, containerized data manipulation and processing, and its interpretation protocol for how humans read topic models suggest a generalizable open approach based not on particular technologies and methods but on annotated methods. Moreover, there is a philosophical fit between such an ap...
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