Z604/Z672 Comic Books and Their Readers

Digital and Empirical Methods for Studying Readership and Fandom
Spring 2024

12:40 - 15:15 Wednesday, Sycamore Hall (SY) 103

Instructor: Associate Professor John A. Walsh, jawalsh@indiana.edu.
Office Hours: Schedule at https://fantastical.app/jawalsh-r1Wz/office-hours.

Associate Instructor: Alex Wingate, alewinga@iu.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1:30pm-2:45pm, and by appointment (click Zoom link in Alex’s profile)

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Final Project Proposal

Submit an proposal, of approximately 300-500 words, in which outline your plans for your final project. Your proposal should include:

• a summary of the content and/or data set(s) that you will be examining;
• research questions you plan to explore through your analysis;
• methods you will apply to analyze your content and/or data set(s) (e.g., close reading and content analysis, computational text analysis, topic modeling, etc.);
• the form you expect your final project to take (e.g., research paper, blog post, data paper, contextualized digital collection)

Submit your proposal as a PDF or Word document in Canvas.