Examples of Student Work in Digital Studies
Digital Studies is a new concentration, with its first concentrators graduating in the class of 2023.
Student Work
Sarah Oide
Sarah Oide ’23 has completed two projects. Rising from Hostility: Nisei at Grinnell College documents the experiences of four Japanese American students at Grinnell in the 1940s, and Sacramento’s Lost Japantown explores the locations and community of an area of Sacramento that was demolished in the 1950s.
Jeev Prayaga
Jeev Prayaga ’23 created a website titled The Metaverse: An Interdisciplinary Visual Essay. Would the metaverse fundamentally benefit human society? To answer this question, Jeev identified three broad themes to frame the potential impacts of the metaverse on different facets of human society: identity, reality, and capitalism. Note: best viewed with Google Chrome browser.
Fall 2024 Capstone Seminar
Six students created digital portfolios while participating in the concentration's inaugural Capstone Seminar in the fall of 2024:
We will continue posting student work here as more Digital Studies concentrators complete their work.