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Digital Zine Possibilities

Examples for Thinking Digitally Summer Institute 2025

Corpus

photo of Cowboy, a sleeping gray cat with a furry furry belly and his left front paw covering part of his delectable little face. underneath him is his human's zine, My Brain HurtsDefinition from Folgerpedia

"Pl. Corpora, a collection of written texts, particularly the entire body of work on a subject or by a specific creator; a collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, assembled for the purpose of studying linguistic structures, frequencies, etc."

Dataset

Selected Zines with Online Links (no zines were digitized for this project)

The latest corpus update, catalog

It's Complicated

photo of a thoughtful looking brownish rabbit with a silly hairdo--sticking up and out like a fountainEthical Concerns

  • Identities and categorization
  • Consent to participate
  • Text without context

Technical Details

  • Optical character recognition (OCR) software vs. transcriptions
  • File naming
  • Spreadsheet vs. catalog
  • Voyant Tools