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Synthetic Media Rhetorical Analysis

This is a collection of AVAnnotate projects created by students in RHE 309J: Rhetoric of AI in spring 2026. The course explores the literacies required for critical engagement with generative artificial intelligence across contexts relevant to writing. In this assignment module, the term “synthetic” refers to audio, video, text, or imagery that has been produced […]

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A group of Indigenous people outdoors, wearing traditional body paint, beaded jewelry, and vibrant feathered headdresses while carrying wooden bows and arrows. The man in the center is raising a booklet colored green, yellow, and blue with the word "CONSTITUIÇÃO" printed on the cover. Modern white buildings and a partly cloudy sky are visible in the background.

Escutando sobre povos indígenas em português (Listening to Indigenous peoples in Portuguese)

This project by Eduardo Gorobets brings digital humanities into language classrooms by creating interactive Spanish and Portuguese lessons that connect linguistic learning with Indigenous histories and cultures across Latin America. Check out his Canvas modules here.

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A black and white portrait photograph of a smiling older couple outdoors. The woman on the left has short light hair with bangs and wears a light-colored coat. The man on the right has a full white beard, is smiling, and wears a dark beret, a dark coat, and a tie.

John Beecher and the McComb “Criminal Syndicalism” Case

This project (originally created by Bethany Radcliff and Kylie Warkentin in 2021; updated and revised by Kylie Warkentin in 2025) serves as an educational example of working with and annotating sensitive audio using the “‘Criminal Syndicalism’ Case, McComb, Mississippi (Side 1)” recording from the John Beecher Sound Recordings Collection at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. In this

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A graphic featuring a background of an abstract watercolor painting with overlapping, colorful geometric and curved shapes in warm tones. Overlaid on the art is bold, black serif text that reads: "Literary Sound Studies Anthology," "English 483," "Winter 2025 - University of Alberta," and "Dr. Michael O'Driscoll, Sam Turner."

Literary Sound Studies Anthology: English 483, University of Alberta

“Literary Sound Studies: English 483 Class Anthology” is a student-created AVAnnotate project in collaboration with Sam Turner that compiles course projects into a public anthology. It focuses on how literature is performed and heard, using time-coded annotations to analyze voice, rhythm, silence, and audience in recordings of poems and performances. The variety is striking: students

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A graphic featuring an orange background with concentric white lines forming the shape of a file folder. In the center, bold, black, hand-lettered text reads "THE LAST ARCHIVE," and the word "PUSHKIN" is written in the bottom right corner.

Annotating “The Last Archive”

Originally authored by Ali Gunnells and edited by Sam Turner, this project is the culmination of an independent study conducted under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Clement during the summer of 2022. The project explores how archival rhetorics are employed in contemporary podcasting through an analysis of Jill Lepore’s podcast The Last Archive. In the

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Annotating Adler: Identity and Embodiment in the Stella Adler Collection

This project by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth contextualizes recently digitized video from the Stella Adler and Harold Clurman Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The eleven digitized videos, provided to the public by The Ransom Center, show Adler teaching at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting between 1969 and 1980 as well as being interviewed by Bob

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A daytime street view of East Austin with cars parked along a road lined with local businesses like "Austin Body Works" and "The Brixton." The downtown Austin skyline, featuring high-rise buildings including the Omni Hotel, rises in the background under a clear blue sky.

RHE 306 Anthology

This is an anthology of AVAnnotate projects developed for RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing. For this project, students were asked to think about how arguments about gentrification function differently in digital spaces—through sound, image, and voice. Using AVAnnotate, they produced original audio or video compositions paired with annotations and a transcript that examine the rhetorical

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A yellow-tinted still from a silent film showing two people lying in bed. The woman in the foreground is awake, clutching her blanket with a fearful expression as she looks up. Hovering ominously over the bed is a large, superimposed, spectral hand and arm with the word "POVERTY" written across it, reaching down toward the sleeping figures.

Comparison Screen for Shoes

This comparison project by Luke Sumpter and Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth showcases two different aspects of formal film analysis, editing and intertitle, within the 1916 silent film Shoes by Lois Weber.

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