Module V

Digital Storytelling: Text/Image/Sound/Video

How do scholars tell stories with digital media? This module covers data visualization, network analysis, digital storytelling platforms, and gamification — asking what it means to argue with images, networks, and interactive form rather than prose alone.

3 class sessions 3 Digital Forays

Key Questions

  • How can visualizations argue, not just illustrate?
  • What are the limits of network representation?
  • What does a digital scholarly argument look like?

Class 12 — April 15

Digital Storytelling: Text/Image/Sound/Video I

Event Submit Midterm + Attend event

How do scholars tell stories with digital media? Module IV opens with a hands-on tour of storytelling platforms, data visualization tools, and gamification experiments. From Knight Labs to Tableau to gamified learning experiences, this session asks: how can visualizations argue, not just illustrate?

Readings & Resources

Suggested / FYI

Breakdown in Class

Visualizing Palestine 101

In-Class Tools

KNIGHT LABS (Timeline, Juxtapose, Soundcite) MapBox Pudding FlowingData Information is Beautiful Cargo Collective Readymag Wix / Squarespace / WordPress Flourish Tableau Survival of the Best Fit (Gamification) Hajj Trail (Gamification)

From the Session

  • Beirut Urban Lab
  • Corona Historical Satellite Footage
  • US National Archives (DC)

Class 13 — April 22

Digital Storytelling: Text/Image/Sound/Video II

Networks — what are they and what can they show us? This session explores network analysis as a method for humanistic inquiry, from social networks to citation maps to trade routes. How do we demystify networks without oversimplifying them? What are the limits of network representation?

Readings & Resources

Suggested / FYI

Breakdown in Class

Filming Revolution

From the Session

  • Introduction to Network Analysis and Representation (Elijah Meeks & Maya Krishnan)
  • Programming Historian: From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks

Class 14 — April 29

Digital Storytelling: Text/Image/Sound/Video III

Lightning Talks from Digital Forays guests — junior scholars present digital scholarship in progress. A chance to see emerging work and think about what your own digital scholarship looks like.

Breakdown in Class

TBD