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Rationale<\/h2>\n

This semester, we\u2019re engaging in original, computationally enhanced and humanities-driven research on Charles Schulz\u2019s Peanuts<\/em>. But it\u2019s a poor researcher who isn\u2019t aware of work that has come before on their topic.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m not aware of anyone who has done what we are, there have been scholars who have considered the comic from a humanities perspective. Likewise, other researchers have considered what it would mean to examine comics from digital or multimodal perspectives. Our own work will be improved as we learn what others have said about these topics. And we\u2019ll get acquainted with this scholarship faster if we share the burden.<\/p>\n

Nitty Gritty<\/h2>\n

For this assignment, you will read two scholarly articles and give a 10-minute presentation about them during class. The presentation will take place on 15 March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pick Your Articles<\/h3>\n

One of your articles will be about about Peanuts<\/em>\u2014from The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life<\/em>, edited by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon\u2014and the other will be about comics research\u2014from Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods<\/em>, edited by Alexander Dunst, Jochen Laubrock, and Janina Wildfeuer. The chapters in the book\u2019s are listed below. Please email me<\/a> to let me know which chapters you would like to claim. Since only one person can present on each chapter, please send me a first and second choice for each of the books.<\/p>\n

The Comics of Charles Schulz<\/h5>\n
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  1. Peppermint Patty\u2019s Desire: Charles Schulz and the Queer Comics of Failure<\/del> (Allie)<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cThere Has to Be Something Deeply Symbolic in That\u201d: Peanuts<\/em> and the Sublime<\/li>\n
  3. Saying, Showing, and Schulz: The Typography and Notation of Peanuts<\/em><\/del> (Jenni)<\/li>\n
  4. Consuming Childhood: Peanuts<\/em> and Children\u2019s Consumer Culture in the Postwar Era<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cHow Can We Lose When We\u2019re So Sincere?\u201d: Varieties of Sincerity in Peanuts<\/em><\/del> (Ashlin)<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cI Thought I Was Winning in the Game of Life\u2026But There Was a Flag on the Play\u201d: Sport in Charles Schulz\u2019s Peanuts<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Football and Ottim Liffs: Charlie Brown in Coconino<\/li>\n
  8. Schulz and the Late Sixties: Snoopy\u2019s Signs of the Times<\/del> (Sarah)<\/li>\n
  9. Franklin and the Early 1970s<\/li>\n
  10. Making A World for All of God\u2019s Children: A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> and the Aesthetics of Doubt and Faith<\/del> (Maria)<\/li>\n
  11. Charles Schulz, Comic Art, and Personal Value<\/li>\n
  12. Charlie Brown Caf\u00e9s and the Marketing of Peanuts<\/em> in Asia<\/del> (Jane)<\/li>\n
  13. Chips Off the Ol\u2019 Blockhead: Evidence of Influence in Peanuts<\/em> Parodies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Empirical Comics Research<\/h5>\n
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    1. Introduction<\/del><\/li>\n
    2. Two Per Cent of What? Constructing a Corpus of Typical American Comic Books<\/li>\n
    3. The Quantitative Analysis of Comics: Towards a Visual Stylometry of Graphic Narrative<\/li>\n
    4. \u201cThe Sider\u2019s Web\u201d: An Analysis of Fan Mail from Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>, 1963-1995<\/del> (Allie)<\/li>\n
    5. Crowdsourcing Comics Annotations<\/li>\n
    6. Computer Vision Applied to Comic Book Images<\/del> (Jane)<\/li>\n
    7. From Empirical Studies to Visual Narrative Organization: Exploring Page Composition<\/li>\n
    8. Character Development in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Systematic Analytical Scheme<\/li>\n
    9. How Informative are Information Comics in Science Communication? Empirical Results from an Eye-Tracking Study and Knowledge Testing<\/li>\n
    10. The Interpretation of an Evolving Line Drawing<\/del> (Maria)<\/li>\n
    11. Viewing Static Visual Narratives through the Lens of the Scene Perception and Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT)<\/li>\n
    12. Attention to Comics: Cognitive Processing During the Reading of Graphic Literature<\/li>\n
    13. Reading Words and Images: Factors Influencing Eye Movement in Comic Reading<\/del> (Jenni)<\/li>\n
    14. Detecting Differences between Adapted Narratives: Implication of Order of Modality on Exposure<\/li>\n
    15. Visual Language Theory and the Scientific Study of Comics<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Read Your Articles<\/h3>\n

      Once you\u2019ve picked your articles, I will email you PDFs of them. Read each of your articles, with an eye to presenting them (see below).<\/p>\n

      Present Your Articles<\/h3>\n

      You will give a 10-minute presentation on your articles in class. Realistically, you should think about this being two five-minute presentations. For each of the articles, you should discuss the following:<\/p>\n

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      1. What is the problem that the authors have identified or the question that they want to answer? In a science project, this would be called the \u201cresearch problem\u201d or \u201cresearch question.\u201d<\/li>\n
      2. Do the authors have a hypothesis? In a science project, this would be called the \u201chypothesis\u201d; weird, huh?<\/li>\n
      3. How do the authors go about resolving this problem or answering this question? In a science project, this would be called \u201cmethod\u201d or \u201cprocedure.\u201d<\/li>\n
      4. What evidence do they present or gather? In a science project, this would be the \u201cobservations\u201d or \u201cresults\u201d. If possible, you should discuss and present comic strips and\/or data that<\/li>\n
      5. What is the solution to their problem or what answers do they get? In a science project, this would be the \u201cconclusion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        As is the case with all presentations, you should prepare what you\u2019re going to say. Depending on what you prefer, this could mean a series of bullet points, an outline, or even a fully written talk.<\/p>\n

        While you are not<\/em> required to have slides for this presentation, I strongly<\/em> suspect that having them will be an effective way for you to organize your thoughts and to ensure that you cover everything that you need to about your article.<\/p>\n

        Grading<\/h2>\n

        This assignment is worth 75 points. Your presentations will be graded based on how well you discuss the five points of each article, as well as your clarity, organization, and how well you adhere to the time limit. I will be using this rubric<\/a>.<\/p>\n

        Credits<\/h2>\n

        This is a new assignment that I created for Winter 2022, but it has its roots in annotated bibliography assignments that I have created in the past. Like all of my assignments, it carries a CC BY 4.0 license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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