Multilingual Newspapers

data & visualizations

INSTRUCTOR: Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio

Textual Analysis Pedagogy Institute (TAPI 2022)

Class overview

This course is designed for attendees to learn close reading text analysis with bilingual (Spanish and English) newspapers, particularly from the Latinx communities in the United States since the 1800s, hosted in various digital repositories; create bilingual datasets and clean the data; select images from the newspapers and edit them; adapt these datasets for visualizations (mapping, timelines and networking) approaching it through time, space, cultural and historical contexts. We will use tools like Excel, Open Refine, Storymaps JS, Timeline JS, and GraphCommons.


This course is for beginners, who would like to learn how to visualize humanities data from archival primary sources. Participants do not need to have prior knowledge of programming.


Historical context of Spanish in the United States territory

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About the instructor

I am Sylvia Fernández an Assistant Professor in Digital and Public Humanities in the Modern Languages and Literature Department and the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio. My research interest are at the intersection of Multilingual Digital and Public Humanities with Transborder Literatures, Archives, Cultures and Languages, Transnational and Intersectional Femenism and Social Movements, and Borderlands and Migrations Studies. I love maps, traveling, nature and tasting new foods and beverages from all over the world.

Resources

Digital platforms, projects and tools that will be refered to during the course.