parler overview

Parler Social Network Overview Self-described as an ” unbiased ” alternative to the major social media platforms, Parler, founded  in 2018, emulates Twitter as a microblogging site. Ownership and stewardship is opaque. John Matze, co-founder and CEO states that ownership is composed of himself and “a small group of close friends and employees.”  Known investors […]

Lucia Joyce Papers

The written materials of and relating to Lucia Joyce have since the day of James Joyce’s death been a serious concern to the Joyce Estate. Private correspondence, medical records and writings ; suppression and destruction has been the estates modus operandi towards these materials. In the immediate period after James Joyce’s death in 1941, friends from his literary circle began to destroy Lucia’s letters. [8] During Stephen Joyce’s tenure as principal executor, he had been tenacious in the suppression of materials related to Lucia Joyce.

Bacon’s Books Database Visualisation

In 1998 the estate of the artist Francis Bacon ( 1909-1992) donated the contents of the 7 Reece Mews studio used by Bacon from 1961 until his death in 1992 to Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. The entire contents of the studio were catalogued by a team of archaeologists and moved, along with the […]

Group Assessment – Open Inquiry – team digital artefact creation

Our group created an info-graphic timeline of social media platforms, focusing on major developments in the area. Part of our motivation was the current debate that is occurring over social media, and the shift that has occurred in our perception of social media as a whole over time. We chose the info-graphic as it was […]

Response to Jerome McGann’s Marking Texts of Many Dimensions

This text was incredibly dense – encompassing physics, mathematics, linguistics, philosophy ( rather , philology ), biology ( conceptual biology?), computer science and what I would describe as ‘phenomonology of reader’. McGann moves through persons, sciences, theories, languages and disciplines like a current of water against a jetty : with full force and without a […]