Meditating on a Mandala in Class: Studying Shakespeare’s Plays with a Visual Exploration Tool for XML Texts
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2011
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Sinclair, Stéfan
Ruecker, Stan
Gabriele, Sandra
Patey, Matt
Gooding, Matt
Vitas, Chris
Bajer, Bartosz
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Media : Culture : Pedagogy
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In this paper we describe the Mandala Browser (mandala.humviz.org) as a born-digital resource for use in the classroom. We provide example classroom exercises for studying the plays of Shakespeare, which provide on the one hand a simple means of examining speeches within a single play (our example uses Romeo and Juliet), and on the other hand a comparison between plays (e.g. all the tragedies). Finally, we provide some further context and resources for enabling what we call digital reading: a subset of text analysis oriented toward searching, browsing and reading text, without requiring more advanced knowledge of statistics and computational methods.
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Sinclair, S., Ruecker, S., Gabriele, S., Patey, M., Gooding, M., Vitas, C., & Bajer, B. (2011). Meditating on a Mandala in class: Studying Shakespeare’s plays with a visual exploration tool for XML texts. Media : Culture : Pedagogy, 15(1).