{"id":35,"date":"2025-02-17T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:17:08","slug":"values","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/values\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Values: Connecting Communications, Digital Humanities, and Project Values<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Value 1: <\/strong>RedditMap.Social embodies several key values that align with both communications research and digital humanities (DH) principles. Collaboration is central to the project, as it brings together data scientists, communication scholars, and digital humanities researchers to design and implement a visual, interactive tool that maps online communities. This collaborative approach reflects DH\u2019s interdisciplinary nature, where diverse teams combine technical, analytical, and cultural expertise to understand digital culture. Experimentation also drives the project, as it tests new ways of representing Reddit\u2019s cultural and social dynamics using clustering algorithms and visual network mapping, helping scholars and the public better understand how online communities evolve and overlap. The value of openness is demonstrated through the project\u2019s publicly accessible platform, which allows users to freely explore Reddit\u2019s ecosystem, aligning with DH\u2019s focus on making cultural data open to all. Transparency is equally important, as the project clearly documents how clusters are formed and how data is processed, ensuring users can understand the methodology behind the visualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-04-at-12.14.33-PM-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-04-at-12.14.33-PM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-04-at-12.14.33-PM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-04-at-12.14.33-PM-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-04-at-12.14.33-PM-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-04-at-12.14.33-PM-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Value 2:<\/strong> Capturing News Hyperlinking Practices at Scale similarly embraces values that align with both communications and digital humanities. Collaboration plays a foundational role, as the project depends on partnerships between communication researchers, computational scientists, and digital platforms like Media Cloud, allowing the project to track hyperlinking practices across global news ecosystems. This collaborative spirit reflects DH\u2019s emphasis on bringing together diverse fields to study digital culture at scale. Experimentation is evident in the project\u2019s use of computational methods to explore how hyperlinks function within digital journalism, applying new data-driven techniques to a traditional area of media research, which mirrors DH\u2019s interest in testing new tools to analyze culture. The project also prioritizes openness, as it relies on open-source data from Media Cloud and shares its findings publicly, aligning with DH\u2019s mission to make research and cultural data accessible to both scholars and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" style=\"width:482px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png 1024w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Values: Connecting Communications, Digital Humanities, and Project Values Value 1: RedditMap.Social embodies several key values that align with both communications research and digital humanities (DH) principles. Collaboration is central to the project, as it brings together data scientists, communication scholars, and digital humanities researchers to design and implement a visual, interactive tool that maps online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/TeamCloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}