Screenshot from our final DH timeline In our project, our group, which comprises of Hassan Al-Tabch and I, Ali Saklaoui, analyzed the life of Thomas Hardy in addition to his selected literary works: Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, Tess D’Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Thomas Hardy was one of the most …
Reflecting on our final DH project
This blog was written in collaboration with Hassan El-Tabch Icon made by Vitaly Gorbachev from http://www.flaticon.com With the current pandemic that left the whole world on lockdown, the Introduction to Digital Humanities course (ENGL256B) was the perfect choice to keep us busy at home. Engaging in emerging digital tools to conduct research and build our …
TimelineJS, An Interactive Story-telling tool
This blog was written alongside Hassan El Tabch. Didn’t we all have enough of boring PowerPoint presentations, filled with bullet points to express main ideas? A reader will not be interested in reading about the life of an author in the absence of media such as images and videos. Luckily in our Introduction to Digital …
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Mapping Thomas Hardy’s Life and Novels through Google My Maps & TopoText
This blog was written in collaboration with Hassan El Tabch Icon by freepik from flaticon.com Digital mapping encourages us to think creatively about spatial relationships and realities and how these factors affect human action. Thanks to the emerging digital mapping tools, we are now able to track down the locations of the events of a novel and …
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Exploring Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels through Voyant tools & CLiC
This post was written in collaboration with Hassan El Tabch. Icon made by Eucalyp from http://www.flaticon.com When it comes to close reading, we all have our struggles in interpreting texts and diving deep in understanding their meaning. It becomes more strenuous when there are several texts that belong to an author to analyze. Nowadays, thanks …
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Stepping into the Digital World
My Digital World Narrative Growing up in a period where technology was rising at speed of light, I cannot deny the huge impact it has made in my life. Going back to where it all started, when I was around 3 years old, my father brought-in a PC (Portable Computer) and put in in our …
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