Title: Hollow Project Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon Release date: June 20, 2013 Website: http://www.hollowdocumentary.com [view using Google Chrome] Hollow is an interactive, non-linear documentary about one county in southern West Virginia that has won accolades for its innovative storytelling. Its non-linear interactive format is an example of transmedia, a mixture of video, still photography, data visualizations, maps (including aerial balloon mapping), and more. All these media interact to tell what Hollow says is the story of a “dying county,” one where “more people leave than stay.” Although Hollow focuses on McDowell County, West Virginia, and addresses tough topics such as…
Author: Brenta Blevins
Brenta Blevins
A Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellow in 2013-14 and 2014-15, Brenta Blevins is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington. She completed her PhD in digital rhetoric and composition at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where her dissertation examined the rhetoric and literacy of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. She previously worked in the software development industry. Her current research interests include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, digital literacy and digital pedagogy, and multiliteracy/multimodality.
Progressing through the Information Age, Big Data has come to the attention of many in the humanities, at times even eclipsing the importance of other forms of data (Cheryl Ball, Tarez Samra Graban, and Michelle Sidler have written about Big Data v. Boutique data in this carnival). Although the definition for this era is fraught with challenges, one of its hallmarks is the increase in data quantity and the ability to work with that data. Simply put, the omnipresence of computers in every aspect of human life means we’re recording and capturing ever-increasing amounts of data. The problem is that…
Wiki. It’s a Hawaiian word for “quick.” It’s also a framework for pulling information together and quickly formatting it to share with others on the web. As such, the wiki is a perfect for assembling and publishing information about digital rhetoric because of the rapid pace of change in the technological realm. We here at the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative host a Wiki to share information about the ever-evolving areas of digital rhetoric and computers and writing. I am beginning my work as a fellow for the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative by focusing on the DRC wiki. I’m interested in exploring…