Jarom McDonald

Jul 9, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jarom McDonald |Ed Cutler |Brigham Young

Keywordstext and context, literature, culture, social attitudesAbstractOne of the most beneficial tools for the study of literature is a working knowledge of the culture that influenced the authors of that literature and helped give rise to the social attitudes, feelings, and movements which that literature is trying to reflect.

Apr 18, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Kyle Bryant |Jarom McDonald |Derek Hansen |Brigham Young

Keywordsvideo games, educational system, William Shakespeare, educational gamesAbstractResearchers like James Gee, culturists such as Henry Jenkins, and educators such as BYU’s own Derek Hansen and Jonathan Ostenson agree that video games can be a powerful educational tool; capturing both the users attention and imagination, something that the educational system is struggling to gain even one.

Mar 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jill Terry Rudy |Jarom McDonald |Jill Terry |Brigham Young

Keywordsintermedial fairy tales, television, film, audiovisual mediaAbstractThis project has leveraged data processing and visualization methods that are becoming significant paradigms in digital humanities scholarship; specifically, we have repositioned the existing teleography of fairy tales on television from Channeling Wonder into a data corpus that can be mined and analyzed visually, spatially, and temporally.