Personas

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THE FOLLOWING PERSONAS WHILE MODELED AND LINKED TO REAL PEOPLE ARE FICTIONAL!

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While some characteristics described below align with the publicly available information of the linked people aspects of each description has been fabricated in order to illustrate the perceived audience of the plain.txt podcast. I invite anyone coming to this issue to suggest a profile][persona of yourself if you identify as an interested audience of the plain.txt podcast. If any of the people linked in my comments decide to comment a re-written persona for themselves I will re-work my persona previously associated with them in a continued effort to reach out to another person[a] I hope the podcast will serve.

@jcoyne47 and @gmoe (as GitHub-active friends of the podcast) please take my you-inspired personas below as invitations to identify for yourself why you might listen in and/or explore the plain.txt podcast community][repository. 🆘 I thank you for your help in identifying our audience by sharing your identity. ❤️

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Molly Burke

The "Digital Humanist" (whether they believe|know it or not) and Disabled Technology User

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Molly Burke, as a blind 25 year-old motivational speaker and YouTuber, promotes digital accessibility to her audiences. Her work de-stigmatizes her own disability (see playlists "All Things Blind!" and "Blind Girl Story Time") while providing her personal knowledge on how to create more accessible digital content (as seen by her #accessibility friendly Instagram). A self-proclaimed sushi and makeup loving millennial girl, Molly has honed her abilities to interact with a variety of interfaces/platforms, albeit differently than most users, in order to become a successful ad sponsored social media creator. Molly hopes her influence will help create the knowledge necessary for us to build a better more knowledgeable and empathetic society. She is active on Twitter and Instagram - always on the look out for community accessibility-advocates to promote and collaborate with.

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Kelly Schmidt and June Coyne

The "DH Adjacent" Graduate Student Teaching Assistants

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Kelly Schmidt and June Coyne - @jcoyne47, as History PhDs, experiment with a variety of digital tools and methodologies in their personal dissertation research as well as with their undergraduate History students. While they each value social media as a place to maintain a variety of professional and personal relationships they both admit to being daily scrollers of #twitterstorians in an effort to stay up-to-date with the increasingly digital community of history professionals across the world. Open to bringing news from digital communities into the classroom Kelly and June look for digital projects and tools to share with their students that provide in-depth perspectives regarding their creation and development.

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Person To Be Identified

Employee of GitHub Affiliated Company

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Good for You, Inc. is a successful tech startup that builds digital pedagogy tools where the development of said tools occurs over GitHub. Good for You, Inc. has tasked one of their lead front-end developers, TBD, to hunt for potential new hires and company affiliates while (they) take a much-deserved coding sabbatical after a big product release. Having worked with many of the company's new team members as well as affiliated projects the owners of Good for You, Inc. trust that TBD knows what to look for in a potential future-colleague. During (their) search, TBD scrolls through #GitHub on Twitter hoping to find engaged GitHub users. (They) also explore `#Digital Humanities on Twitter because having attended a university with a Digital Humanities program (they) hope to find tech-savvy people that are in tune with the humanistic needs a company working on digital pedagogy tools must also be concerned with. In addition to (their) Twitter searches, TBD heads over to GitHub to do additional topic searching for heads of unique GitHub repositories building pedagogy-related content.

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Griffin Moe

Digital Humanities Enthusiast

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I think the persona bucket that I most identify with is what I would call a "Digital Humanities Enthusiast". I don't have a direct background in DH but my research typically falls within the realm of DH or is at least DH-adjacent. An Enthusiast might simply admire projects with the DH label or Digital Humanists themselves, and is coming to the podcast to learn more about DH. Enthusiasts might also want to keep abreast of current DH news, exciting new research/projects, or interviews with prominent Digital Humanists and their work.