Category: CHI Grad Fellow Post
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Announcing the Launch of Protecting Our Past, an Introduction to Cultural Heritage Policy and Law
Protecting Our Past: Cultural Heritage Policy and Law is now live! It is exciting to announce the launch of my first site, Protecting Our Past: Cultural Heritage Policy and Law. Since September, I have coded and gathered information to create this site which contains reference material about cultural heritage preservation laws. Currently, it contains the Native…
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Launching: Queer Intersections: Visualizing the LGBTQ Video Game Archive!
I’m thrilled to finally announce the launch of Queer Intersections: Visualizing the LGBTQ Video Game Archive! This collection of visualizations reveals trends in LGBTQ representation in video games from the 1980s to the 2000s using an intersectional lens, particularly to look at intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and genre. Currently the project consists of 16…
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Launch of Queer Continuum!
My project, Queer Continuum is now live here! Queer Continuum is a theoretical project I have been working on over the course of the last two years. As I have worked on my PhD in rhetoric and writing, it has often struck me that the rhetoric and writing discipline places a great deal of value…
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Launch of Mapping Consumers!
My project, Mapping Consumers in the Black South African Press, is now live at this address! Mapping Consumers is built with data I collected from two South African newspapers, Bantu World and Umlindi we Nyanga in the 1930s. The 1930s were an important period in the history of South African newspaper, advertising, and consumer culture. This was…
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Launching: No Mud Huts
Today I officially launch No Mud Huts: an open anthropological journal about Kenya’s tech industry! Through this site I intend to contribute to the open science research movement as a part of my broader support for an open access approach to scientific publishing. Motivations I am about to complete my comprehensive exams and will soon…
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Launching: No Mud Huts
Today I officially launch No Mud Huts: an open anthropological journal about Kenya’s tech industry! Through this site I intend to contribute to the open science research movement as a part of my broader support for an open access approach to scientific publishing. Motivations I am about to complete my comprehensive exams and will soon…
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Launching: Networks of Hate
After a long seven months of dreaming, planning, and making, I’m happy to announce that my project, “Networks of Hate: Visualizing Extremist Celebrity Networks” is now live! The motivation behind building this website was to visualize the ways in which extremist celebrities are connected in terms of the larger movement that they identify with or…
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Migrants and Muscovites: The Memory of Migration
I am writing this blog from Moscow, the place that my website (now almost fully functional) is about. I find it appropriate to discuss all the ways that I have seen migration play out over the course of my various stays here. I first came to Moscow in June 2011 as an undergraduate with one…
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Adventures in Courier New
This is one of my last weeks at CHI and its led me to think about all of the progress I’ve made this year learning to code. I’m not sure if my project will really highlight all that I know and have learned when I showcase it next week, but I really have made a…
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My Adventures in Troubleshooting (and the Importance of Good Technical Writing)
Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned during this CHI project is how necessary various forums on HTML and CSS are to a person’s progress on a project. Over the last few weeks, I’ve had to rely entirely on the Twine Cookbook and googling random questions online to try to understand what I need to…