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  • Synth Guide: An Interactive Digital Narrative

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    Jill Hallam-Miller
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    John Gossick (Lafayette College) Electronic music synthesizers are exemplars of the intersection of technology and music.  The Synth Guide project is an online, interactive, semi-linear narrative that examines the most popular electronic music synthesis technologies in their technological, musical, and commercial aspects in a Scalar book using TimelineJS and SoundCloud.  The project aims to familiarize…

  • Topic Modeling the U.S. Supreme Court

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    Jill Hallam-Miller
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    William Gordon (Lafayette College) It has long been recognized that justices’ personal beliefs and policy preferences shape the ways they view constitutional law. In this project, digital tools, like MALLET and a web scraper built using Python, are used to look at whether or not ideologically liberal and conservative justices have differences in themes that…

  • The Evolution of Student Political Engagement at Lafayette College

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    Jill Hallam-Miller
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    Caroline Nawrocki (Lafayette College) In contemporary discourse, some research paints college students as politically disinterested and uninformed as compared with student activists of the 1960s and 1970s, whereas other research states that these students simply engage with political material in different ways than previous generations. This project uses topic modeling in order to investigate the…