Showing posts with label #SusanaFlores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #SusanaFlores. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Learning Research Methods

After 5 weeks in Research Method course with assigned scholar readings and senior thesis research, I have discovered sufficient information related to analytic research, structuring thesis and how to approach and apply these ideas to my senior thesis. From our assigned readings, there were several various readings provided somewhat interesting approach with its ideas, its concepts and its exhibitions to allow me understand better with the research process especially with Emily Fekete and Timothy Arnold.

Comparing the articles between Emily Fekete to Timothy Arnold. Emily focused on the cultural significant with local traditional dishes in a particular city  and on the other hand, Timothy Arnold focus on preserving and collecting Twitter posts related to protests in Egypt and Global Audience.

Emily Fekete's article focused on the meaning of cultural signifiant especially with signature dish, garbage plate of the Rochester city and how the people in the community saviors these kind of dishes. " Other aspects of the local food culture have not read beyond the confines of the region.Though these foods have a rich history thin the area, their importance has not transcended place." Same time, she used applied her creativity writing to elaborate on the Greater Rochester's homegrown culinary traditions.  Therefore, this reading covers the subtopics of cultural significance and people who enjoyed participating Fekete's research by sharing their insights with Garbage plates.

Timothy Arnold and Walker Sampson's article focused on digital collection development of Egypt's 18 days peace protests'  twitters and how the digital collection preserved within amount of data that Twitter platform provides including with limited tools. " A review of scholarship on media and the Middle East reveals a lack of engagement with digital media content, whether as primary sources or in critically questioning the tools and analytics provided." In addition, the article focus on the protests and roles of social media.


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1. Emily Fekete, “I Know When I’m Having One: The Cultural Significance of the Garbage Plate in Rochester, 
NY " Material Culture (2014) :1 

2.  Timothy Arnold and Walker Sampson, “Preserving the Voices of Revolution: Examining the Creation and Preservation of a Subject-Centered Collection of Tweets from the Egyptian Days in Egypt,” The American Archivist 77, no. 2 (2014) :4

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Susana's Intro

Hi everyone! My name is Susana Flores and originally from Bay Area, California. I'm majoring in Museum Studies with an immersion in Deaf Studies. My interests always been in Art, History and Science. I enjoy any arts in general but do have some interests in Black/ White photography, Baroque Painting arts and Graffiti arts.

I recently completed my internship at American School of the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, Connecticut. My assigned project was to preserve, catalog and label the books from late 1700's - Early 1800's in their Archive library room and I also worked on transcription projects with the Connecticut Digital Archive under University of Connecticut. My experience working as intern at Hartford, CT was very enriching and i'm already looking forward to work with ASD again next year for their upcoming exhibition for thier 200th anniversary



Statue of Thomas E. Gallaudet with 
Alice Cogswell in front of ASD admission office.