This project by Derrek Powell explores the sociolinguistics of reggaetón through an interactive multimedia atlas of vocal performance. Drawing on annotated musical examples and empirical research, the project examines how artists use pronunciation, rhythm, lexis, sound, and style to construct social meaning, musical personae, and genre identity.
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This project by Benjamin Leff uses AVAnnotate to contextualize primary-source audiovisual materials related to the urban crisis. Through annotations providing historical background, interpretation, and additional context, the project demonstrates how close engagement with archival media can illuminate the people, events, and political conditions represented in the source material.
This project by Mauro Aguirre examines the political imaginaries of the Latin American Left in the 1960s and 1970s through documentaries by Argentine filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer. Combining close listening with AI-assisted annotation, the project treats machine-generated interpretations as objects of critique and exposes tensions between historical context and contemporary computational assumptions.
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This project by Sofia Gomez examines fan editing as both a creative practice and a product of online consumer culture. Moving from the history of fandom edits to contemporary Gen-Z editing, the project considers how fan-made audiovisual art intersects with advertising, monetization, gender, and consumerism.
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This project by Alexis R. Velazquez documents bomba, an Afro–Puerto Rican music and dance practice, through annotated community performances, films, and music videos. With bilingual transcription and detailed tagging of performers, subgenres, lyrics, and sociocultural themes, the project brings dispersed audiovisual materials together as a resource for research and community use.
This project is one piece of a larger one documenting the structure of Egyptian Sign Language. In 2024 and 2025, we interviewed over 60 members of the Deaf community in nine regions of Egypt, with one of the focuses of the interviews relating to school experiences. On this site, you can learn about Deaf Education
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This project by Wanshu Zhang explores Charles Hickson’s 1973 appearance on the game show To Tell the Truth, where he testified about the famous Pascagoula UFO incident alongside two impostors. Rather than evaluating the UFO claim itself, the project uses tagged annotations of speech, gesture, and format to examine how television performance and audience judgment
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The project ,”The Universal Language,” created by Katrina Partlow, explores the political messaging embedded in the visuals and lyrics of the Super Bowl LIX (Kendrick Lamar) and LX (Bad Bunny) halftime shows.
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This project by Abbie Hartman explores the archaeological record of ancient board games to show how play has changed across time and geography. Drawing on Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, it invites viewers to recognize both the familiarity and strangeness of historical games and to consider why they still matter today.
This project by Kara Alexandra Culp explores the life and legacy of the San Antonio poet, civil rights activist, and educator Diana Montejano. En Sus Propios Poemas brings her story out of the archives and into the light, tracing how the Chicano Movement, San Antonio, and her own extraordinary voice shaped her work.
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