Browsing by Author "Fahringer, Alyssa Toby"

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    Digital Humanities Now
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2021) Cohen, Daniel; Takats, Sean; Buck, Brandon; Howlett, Dan; Meyer, Dana; Stinson, Kris; Swain, Greta; Walters Cooper, LaQuanda; Crossley, Laura; Bestebreurtje, Lindsey; Fragaszy Troyano, Joan; Hoffman, Sasha; Rhody, Lisa M.; Schneider, Benjamin; Wieringa, Jeri; Morton, Amanda; Regan, Amanda; Catalano, Joshua; Westcott, Stephanie; Fahringer, Alyssa Toby; Harnett, Caitlin
    Digital Humanities Now was an experimental, edited publication that highlighted and distributed informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. Begun in November 2009, DHNow explored processes of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review to facilitate open and extend conversations about the digital humanities research and practice. DHNow was an experiment in contemporary scholarly communication practices, and served as a case study for the development of PressForward, a plugin for WordPress. DHNow aggregated potential content via RSS from a list of subscribed feeds, which included hundreds of venues where high-quality digital humanities scholarship was likely to appear, such as the personal websites of scholars, institutional sites, blogs, and other feeds—and was open for anyone to join. The project also sought out new material by monitoring Twitter and other social media for stories discussed by the community, and by continuously scanning the broader web through generalized and specialized search engines. Editors-at-Large also directly nominated content from their own networks. The aggregated material was reviewed, nominated, and discussed directly in the site’s WordPress installation using the PressForward plugin. Each week volunteer Editors-at-Large used the plugin to survey the incoming content from both subscribed feeds and their own networks and nominate content for broader dissemination through DHNow. Next, a rotating Editor-in-Chief selected content for publication on DHNow. The site manager then created a brief post on DHNow, linking back to the original content in order to direct attention, conversation, and site hits to the creator.
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    TimelineJS and StoryMapJS
    (Digital Scholarship Working Group, 2020-07-20) Fahringer, Alyssa Toby
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    “With All Her Sad Disasters, What Do We See in This City?”: Reconstruction, Race, and the Politics of Disaster in Richmond, 1870-1920
    (2022) Fahringer, Alyssa Toby; Kierner, Cynthia A
    In 1870, Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, endured three disasters. On 27 April, over sixty people died when the Capitol courtroom gallery and floor collapsed. The James River flooded on 30 September, resulting in thousands of dollars of damage. Eight people perished when the Spotswood Hotel caught fire on 25 December. This dissertation examines how Richmonders experienced, responded to, and remembered the 1870 calamities, as well as how the disasters affected a community in a time of extreme political and racial upheaval. The five years following the end of the Civil War represented a time of hope for many Black Richmonders, while some white Richmonders viewed Radical Reconstruction as a threat to white supremacy. Richmonders’ responses to the disasters were shaped by the political and racial contexts in which they occurred: despite significant tensions between white and Black Richmonders, journalists perpetuated a false narrative of racial harmony between the two communities; after the flood decimated the primarily Black neighborhood of Rocketts, few reporters detailed their suffering; and the Spotswood Hotel fire victims received less laudatory press coverage because they were poorer and less socially prominent than the Capitol disaster dead. Northerners provided aid to their former enemies in the wake of the Capitol disaster, prefiguring eventual reconciliation between the North and South. Lost Cause adherents later co-opted the Capitol disaster and argued that it exemplified the failure of Reconstruction.