Category: CHI Grad Fellow Post
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Exploring Time & Space
Figuring out the ‘wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff’… Our final rapid development challenge focused on us creating a “Memory Map”. I worked on this project with my fantastic team, Dani Willcutt, Juan Carlos Rico Noguera, and Vee Lawson. This mapping challenge allowed us to conceptualize spatial change over time. More particularly, my team decided to…
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Experiencing Data
And so it was November. The semester is flying by, and in the CHI fellowship, we’re preparing to begin our third rapid development challenge, a web mapping exercise, and to present our project proposals at the end of the semester. Outside of the CHI fellowship, I’m writing the second of three comprehensive exams for my…
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A Look Back on Digital Heritage During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this blog I want to share my ongoing experience with transitioning in-person cultural heritage outreach projects into digital cultural heritage during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been a member of Michigan State University’s Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) since 2018 and as an organization, CAP works to protect, preserve, and share the cultural heritage of…
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Some applications of digital humanities: data visualization, digitization, spatial analysis and representation, social network analysis, and text analysis.
In my previous entry, I defined digital humanities and discussed whether digital humanities were a revolution, a technical improvement of usual humanities’ business, or just flashy rhetoric. I did not provide any absolute answer regarding the discussion, but I delivered some arguments to understand why certain scholars think of digital humanities in the way they…
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Digital Rhetorical Heritage
The early weeks of this fellowship have been devoted to foundations, primarily through establishing a shared understanding of digital cultural heritage, before we begin the more technical aspects of the year. As a result, I’ve been thinking more thoroughly about what “digital” + “cultural” + “heritage” can mean through a rhetorical lens. Of these, “digital”…
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Vision, Fellowship, & Planning
In the CHI fellowship, during the first semester we carry out rapid development project challenges with a team of fellows. Last year, the CHI fellowship was completely online due to COVID-19. While Zoom was essential to allowing us to still meet, work on these projects together, and have the fellowship that CHI is all about,…
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What are Digital Humanities? Let’s discuss revolution, evolution, and rhetoric.
So, what are we talking about when we refer to the concept of digital humanities?
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A few weeks of lecture and a look at the Survey of London’s “Histories of Whitechapel” map
Over the last few weeks in CHI I have been given the resources to think about what cultural heritage is and why and to what digital methods are applied to the protection, preservation, and/or sharing cultural heritage. Digital (cultural) heritage projects are applied works and the goal or outcome should be stated explicitly. This way…
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Micayla Spiros | Returning CHI Fellow 2021-2022
Hello, again! My name is Micayla Spiros and I have accepted a Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative returning fellow position this year. I am a fourth year biological anthropology doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. I study human osteology exploring the multifactorial, interdependent causes of skeletal variation from a biocultural lens focusing on the postcranial…
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Hello, CHI!
Hello, CHI! My name is Vee Lawson, an incoming CHI Fellow for 2021-22 and a third-year PhD student in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. I previously earned my MA in English from the University of Arkansas with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I’m honored to be included in this group of fellows, and…