Elena Razlogova has published two essays related to media and digital methods. “Framing the Contested History of Digital Culture,” co-authored with Lyell Davies, appeared in Radical History Review, no 117 (Fall 2013): 5-31. Her chapter “The Past and Future of

Arclight Symposium will take place at Concordia University, Montreal, May 13-15, 2015. It will feature the work of “Project Arclight,” but our primary intention is to bring together media historians, digital humanities scholars, and “big data” critics for a wide-ranging

On October 27, Kit Hughes will travel to Bethesda, Maryland for the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data to report on Project Arclight’s progress to an audience of digital humanities researchers and project developers. Her presentation, “Scaled Entity Search: A Method for Media Historiography and Response to Critiques of Big Humanities Data Research,” will be part of the Big Humanities Data Workshop.

In June 2014, Louis Pelletier, research coordinator of the Canadian Educational, Sponsored and Industrial Film Archive, discussed the project’s objectives, methodology, and digital tools at the “Access, Image, and Context: Online Archives as Scholarly Initiatives” workshop. The workshop formed part of

Tony Tran and Eric Hoyt presented their research at SCMS Seattle 2014 on the panel “Archives and Algorithms.” Tony’s presentation title was “Media Texts, Audiences, and Computers: Applying Software to Michelle Phan and her Anti-Phans” and Eric’s title was “How to Train Your Computer to Read a Thousand Screenplays and Twenty-five Years of Variety.”