David Sherlock

A map

Interests

Some of this started as a laugh. Wrestling graphs ended up in the PhD. Streaming a choose-your-own-adventure with Harold Bishop has not, yet. I usually start with something people already care about and show it to them. This map is those interests, and some that have not gone anywhere yet.

The map

Solid lines already exist. Dashed lines could become a paper or a class, but have not yet.

Click an interest. Filled pills have already shown up in a paper or a thesis. Outlines have not, yet.

WrestlingDigital footprintsWikipediaClassroom gamesSoapsStreamingText adventuresCookie clickers

Wikipedia

ScholarshipIn a paper. The source I actually use. DBpedia when the structured layer is there, Fandom when Wikipedia’s rules about notability get in the way. Wrestling stables, Coronation Street, telenovelas.

TeachingNot on a timetable yet. A class pulling a community they care about out of Wikipedia, drawing it, and arguing with the picture. I have done it with wrestling fans. I have not put it in a timetable as a Wikipedia session.

Wikipedia is usually where I go for data. It has rules about what is worthy of notice, which is why Fandom showed up for Coronation Street, and why Ric Flair went missing from the wrestling graph: DBpedia did not type him as a wrestler. The gaps are the interesting bit. People who care will beat the machine, then some of them go and fix the source.

Already tied to

  • Wrestling. The stables came out of Wikipedia. Reddit then argued with the picture.
  • Digital footprints. Open methods on public traces. Wikipedia is one of the places those traces live.
  • Soaps. Corrie infoboxes, Fandom when DBpedia was not there, the same habit as the wrestling scrape.

Could be built

  • Classroom games. A session that is just: pick a fandom, pull a graph, argue with it. I have done the wrestling version off-timetable.

On this site: Exploring Wrestling Stables, Fandom scraper and Corrie faces.