Category: #s1c
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Inside/Outside the Binary: Teaching the Politics of Data
Jacob Alden Sargent and Christopher Gilman (Occidental College) At Occidental, we are experimenting with the integration of quantitative reasoning into courses outside of STEM. Students, often without prompting or explicit guidance from faculty, are conducting online surveys, generating data visualizations, and downloading large public data sets in their own research. Given that big data is…
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Bridging the Gap Between University Archives and Diverse Publics with Digital Tools
Elise Chenier and Mary Corbett (Simon Fraser University) Both oral history and LGBTQ archives have, since the early 1970s, served as tools to empower grass-roots, marginalized communities. As such, they have traditionally been driven by community-based imperatives, as well as community labour. Today, however, in the United States and Canada there are more LGBTQ collections…