Keywords and Hashtags for Social Media Campaigns Supporting the Humanities

Posted by Alan Liu

March 20, 2016ResourcesAlan Liu

4Humanities.org collected multilingual keywords and Twitter hashtags for paid social-media campaigns on Twitter and Facebook to promote its Shout Out For the Humanities student prize contest in 2016. In the case of Twitter, promoted campaigns place specific tweets in the timelines and also search results of people in nations and demographic sectors selected for the campaign who either follow or search for those particular keywords/hashtags. In the case of Facebook, promoted campaigns place ads in the view of Facebook users similarly targeted by nation, demographic sector, interests, and so on.

Because these keywords/hashtags may be of use to others engaged in social-media advocacy for the humanities, 4Humanities is posting them as a resource. We will update the list with new languages and terms as suggested to us. (We hope to extend this list to other languages and terms. Suggestions for keywords/hashtags in any language may be emailed to ayliu@english.ucsb.edu.)

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Undergraduate 1st Prize Winner: Student Team of The Gail Project — “Do You Have a Passport?”

Posted by Ashley Champagne

March 8, 2016Contest 2016 Submissions, Undergraduateu59Ashley Champagne

Spotlight on undergraduate team of the U. California Santa Cruz Gail Project. Powerful example of the humanities in action!

1st Prize Winner of “Shout Out for the Humanities” Contest: Undergraduate Team of The Gail Project
B.A. students in History, Anthropology, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Art, Linguistics, Politics, and East Asian Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz — Lead author of submission: Stella Fronius. Other team members: Nick Bass, Beau Dibble, Sarah “Ella” Goldberg, Jack Goldman, Jessie Haupt, Anu Korada, Alexyss McClellan, Sam McRobert, Robert Potmesil, Jaime Quiros, Allison Sharp, Tyler Spencer, Matt Ray, Shanley Sullivan, Jackson Zeman (Go to full post)

Undergraduate 2nd Prize Winner: CharLynne Cather — “A Letter to Future Generations”

Posted by Ashley Champagne

March 1, 2016Contest 2016 Submissions, UndergraduateAshley Champagne

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Spotlight on CharLynne Cather’s “Letter to Future Generations.”

“…The world may be huge, but it’s never farther than an arm’s stretch away. Never more than a page turn away. Never farther than a heart can reach.”

2st Prize Winner of “Shout Out for the Humanities” Contest: CharLynne Cather
B. A. student in English, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Contest Submission — “A Letter to Future Generations?”) (Go to full post)

Graduate Student 1st Prize Winner: André Lynch — “Facts of Humanities”

Posted by Ashley Champagne

March 1, 2016Contest 2016 Submissions, GraduateAshley Champagne

Spotlight on André Lynch’s wonderful music video for the humanities!

1st Prize Winner of “Shout Out for the Humanities” Contest: André Lynch
M. Ed. student in Educational Leadership, St. Lawrence University (New York, United States). Contest Submission — “Facts of Humanities” (Video and music | Song lyrics) (Go to full post)

New 4Humanities Research Project — What U.S. Politicians Say About the Humanities

Posted by Alan Liu

March 1, 20164Humanities Research ProjectsAlan Liu

As part of its “WhatEvery1Says” project to study how the humanities are represented in public discourse, 4Humanities examined United States political discourse during 2009 to 2015 in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government and also the legislative branch of one state (California). Our goal was to learn systematically how politicians talk about the humanities.

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Researcher and analyst Austin Yack — a student at University of California, Santa Barbara majoring in political science and minoring in English who has intern experience reporting on politics in Washington, D.C. — canvassed records available through the following government sources: Whitehouse.gov, Congress.gov, Gpo.gov (Government Publishing Office), and Legistature.ca.gov.

The data set he collected from these sources are presented in the form of spreadsheets that include metadata and annotated summaries for all political records referring to the humanities between 2009 and 2015. Accompanying the data set is a white paper by Yack (“What U.S. Politicians Say About the Humanities”: HTML | PDF) containing an analysis of his findings.

HathiTrust + Bookworm in the service of student teams for 4humanities.org student contest

Posted by Ashley Champagne

February 29, 2016Shout Out for Humanities Student ContestAshley Champagne

Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya, from the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ran a Creativity Workshop for the Shout Out for the Humanities Student Contest. He wrote about his thoughts on the contest in a blog post.

Graduate Student 2nd Prize Winner: Floris Solleveld — “Was There Ever Not a Crisis in the Humanities?”

Posted by Ashley Champagne

February 28, 2016Contest 2016 Submissions, GraduateAshley Champagne

Spotlight on Floris Solleveld’s thoughtful, historically deep reflection on the “crisis” of the humanities!

2st Prize Winner of “Shout Out for the Humanities” Contest: Floris Solleveld
Ph. D. student in History, Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). Contest Submission — “Was There Ever Not a Crisis in the Humanities?” (essay) (Go to full post)