How can digital humanities projects use social networking to expand their audience base and excite new audiences about content? Hi, my name is Amanda Sikarskie, and I work in project development on the Quilt Index, www.quiltindex.org. The QI is an online resource for scholars and educators, providing access to images and metadata for around 50,000 [...]
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Amanda Sikarskie
Website: http://www.quiltindex.org
Twitter handle: sikarskie
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I am a PhD candidate in American Studies at Michigan State University. I also work in project development at Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online on a large-scale digital humanities project called the Quilt Index, http://www.quiltindex.org. My chief research interest is digital material culture, and my dissertation looks at quilts in the digital age.