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Identifying Archival Silences in the Attica Uprising Collection
“…Any historical narrative is a particular bundle of silences, the result of a unique process, and the processes required to deconstruct these silences will vary accordingly.”
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, p. 27 -
The Cataloger Final Project
The Cataloger Game is ready when you are! Try to have fun, unlike this cataloger.
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Last day discussion
Start with the question, the archive, or the tool?
Your goals (the reason you are doing the research),
Your conceptual framework (the literature you are working in, your field, your experience that you draw from),
Your research questions (a set of clear statements of exactly what you are studying)
Your methods (broadly conceived as the way you are going to answer the question, so for historians both the archives/sources you will work from and their perspectives are relevant as well as the way you will sample/explore them, and the actual techniques you will use to analyze and interpret them)
The validity concerns and threats (literally, answers to the question “how might you be wrong” where you work through inherent limitations and biases in your methods, sources, perspective, etc.)
How to get a project off the ground
- What were you most concerned about this semester?
- Where did you improve the most?
- How did you improve?
- What are you most comfortable with now?
- What are the limitations of your platform?
- How did you prioritize?
- What’s the minimum viable product?
- Where will it live long term?
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The Cataloger- Rough Draft
Hello! Below is the rough draft. Somethings I hope to update/change 1) Make the Cataloger Game fun, maybe with more tests or images, 2) play with the data viz, 3) Work on relating the data viz/analysis with the literature/argument.
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