Explore the Projects

Stories for All brings together over forty community and University of Kansas partner projects. This page enables you to identify partner projects that interest you and takes you to their websites.

You can search and filter projects by topic, partner, or digital genre. Please contact storiesforall@ku.edu if you have any difficulties.

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COVID-19 in the News: Community Coverage of a Global Event

Erin Wolfe

Metadata Librarian, University of Kansas University of Kansas

This project attempts to apply a macro lens to a community’s response to a global situation through in-depth analysis of local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. A variety of natural language processing and textual analysis approaches will be applied to articles published in four news sources from Douglas County, Kansas, beginning with the first mentions of COVID-19 in January 2020 and continuing to the present.

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COVID-19 Stories

Kathryn Conrad

Professor and Chair of English, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Ani Kokobobo

Associate Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas University of Kansas

“COVID-19 stories” includes formal narratives, social media stories, snapshots, drawings, or anything else that captures experiences of the pandemic in Douglas County, Kansas. The gathered stories will be collected in a digital, open access medium and together will illuminate the shared vulnerabilities that connect us to each other.

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