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Vaccination Research Group [37]
The Virginia Tech Vaccination Research Group conducts research to understand the nature of vaccination controversy and to inform the public about its findings.
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“Lots of Prayer, Lots of Emotional Coaching, and Pray it Works out the Best”: Tuning in to Kids in a Rural Appalachian Community
(2020-07)Rural Americans face barriers in access to services such as psychoeducation programs. The purpose of this study was to describe how participants in a rural Appalachian community, a geographic location that has been largely ... -
Challenging the Digital Humanities: A Response to Jon Saklofske
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Channeling William Blake: A Response to Roger Whitson
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Craft and Care: The Maker Movement, Catherine Blake, and the Digital Humanities
(Liverpool University Press, 2016-04)This article examines the popular Maker movement, the scholarly discourse of “critical making,” and the work of digital humanists through an analysis of the working relationship between William and Catherine Blake. It ... -
Managing an Established Digital Humanities Project: Principles and Practices from the Twentieth Year of the William Blake Archive
(Alliance of Digital Humanities, 2014-04-01)Scholars and practitioners of the digital humanities generally recognize the importance of solid project management and oversight. But coursework and publications related to DH project management tend to focus heavily on ... -
Digital humanities and the study and teaching of North American religions
(Wiley, 2016-12)The digital humanities are a collection of methodologies with a long history in the disciplines of literature, linguistics, media studies, and pedagogy. These methodologies and the scholars who employ them have recently ... -
“I Have No Disbelief”: Spiritualism and Secular Agency in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons
(Project Muse, 2017)This essay explores the imagery of Spiritualist religion that runs through Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons, arguing that the exercise of Spiritualist gifts including clairvoyance, trance-speaking, and spirit-traveling ... -
Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America
(Cornell University Press, 2020-09-15)In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women ... -
Dressing up the author: Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace branding their masculine authorial identities through fashion
(Intellect, 2020-10-01)This article explores the use of clothes and other accessories as markers of masculine authorial identity. Fashion and literature are contentious partners, with literature attempting to keep a firm distance from the popular ... -
Black Technical and Professional Communication
(Virginia Tech, 2020-11-30)A coalition of Black scholars in technical and professional communication offer their perspectives on defining Black technical and professional communication; advocating for the inclusion of Black perspectives in the body ... -
Near-Native Sociolinguistic Competence in French: Evidence from Variable Future-Time Expression
(Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, 2020)This study aims to advance the understanding of sociolinguistic competence among nearnative speakers and to further knowledge about the acquisition of variable structures. We conduct a quantitative analysis of variable ... -
On the role of the present indicative in variable future-time reference in Hexagonal French
(University of Toronto Press, 2018)This study investigates variable future-time expression among native speakers of Hexagonal French who participated in informal conversations. The quantitative analysis is the first to examine the inflectional future, ... -
From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities
(2019-10)This article illustrates the value and impact of collaboration among scholars, archivists, and librarians working across universities and government institutions, and how changes in medium-from a born-physical photograph ... -
Representing Diversity in Digital Research: Digital Feminist Ethics and Resisting Dominant Normatives
(The WAC Clearinghouse, 2019)In this paper, the authors consider how their engaged practices of feminist ethics have come up against specific dominant normatives. Privileging the experiences of women of color, they question the embodied relationship ... -
Tackling a Fundamental Problem: Using Digital Labs to Build Smarter Computing Cultures
(University of Chicago Press, 2015-01-19)This timely edited collection will do much to promote and strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations in the digital humanities. -
Responding to the Coding Crisis: From Code Year to Computational Literacy
(Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2015)This innovative book project considers the ways in which literacy crisis discourses have reinvented themselves in the twenty-first century through a richly textured view of these varied discourses. -
Review: Name That Twitter Community!
(PubPub, 2020-01-30)This Python 3.x module bundles a set of useful code functions for humanistic inquiry of social networks. The module assumes that researchers have a set of network subgraphs created through community-detection, and they ... -
Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words
(PLOS, 2019-02-04)Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring ... -
Autism and the MMR Vaccine [annotated bibliography]
(Virginia Tech, 2010)
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