Category: CHI Project Info
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Creating Structure for TOMB
As Katy mentioned over on the Digital Archaeology Institute blog, we’re focusing on two major steps in the development of our project: 1) creating the framework, and 2) developing the content. For more details about the content development, head on over to Katy’s post. Some of the major steps in creating TOMB’s framework will include…
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Building the Plane While Flying It; Or, Understanding the Politics of the Sonic through Earwitnessing Participant and User Collaboration
Crank.Spin.Putter-Putter-Putter. Click. Swipe. Type. These are the sounds that circulate in my mind as I architect the #hearmyhome project. Most days, it feels like I am building the plane while flying it. Working to circulate and collaborate with participants, I network the project on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram while simultaneously actually designing the platform. Other…
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Mapping Morton Village: Writing the Content
In this post, I would like to discuss what will be included within the Mapping Morton Village interactive map. For the past several weeks, Nikki Silva and myself have been working on the written content of Mapping Morton Village. We decided to write the content of the site with the public in mind, focusing on…
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Mapping Morton Village: Creating the Interactive Map
Creating the Interactive Map For the past two weeks, as Autumn Beyer worked on coding our site, I have been working on the interactive map for our joint CHI Fellowship project – Mapping Morton Village. I had some problems at the beginning, including a computer that would not function and some confusion as to the…
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Mapping Morton Village: Coding the Website
Mapping Morton Village — writing the basic code for the website. For the past two weeks, I have been working on the code for my joint CHI Fellowship project with Nikki Silva: Mapping Morton Village. We knew the general structure of what we wanted the site to look like and using a bootstrap theme I created the…
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Namibia Digital Repository: An Effort Towards “Democratizing Knowledge”
The politics of publishing in African studies are controversial and problematic. This is the dilemma: foreign researchers are able to obtain more funds than African-based academics to conduct often very innovative research projects. In order to obtain tenure, and therefore more research funds, these professors publish in western university presses (or Palgrave and Routledge, which…
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This is my story: Detroit 1967
“They [the media] just referred to it as a riot. Down on the ground it looked like a rebellion. But the media and the power structure had a lot of things wrong,” said Ed Vaughn, activist and businessman in Detroit.[1] This is my story: Detroit 1967 is an oral history based multimedia project, which looks…
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Attuning to Cultural Differences through Community Soundscapescapes
As new(er) communicative landscapes emerge, humanities educators and research in the teaching of cultural heritage have enthusiastically embraced digital and visual culture. From more (g)local understandings of cosmopolitanism to understanding how locative literacies and contemporary technologies are mediating youth identity making with place, the digital has made its mark. Despite this renewed emphasis on multimodality,…
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Mapping Morton Village – A Digital Archaeological Experience
What is the Morton Village Site? Why did we choose to use it for our fellowship project? Our project will be focused around a single archaeological site, Morton Village. The Morton Village site is a integrated Mississippian and Oneota habitation site, located in the Central Illinois River Valley, dating from around AD 1300 to 1400.…
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Wheelwomen at Work 2.0 is live!
It has been a busy summer plugging away on Wheelwomen at Work, my digital humanities project mapping women’s involvement in the nineteenth-century bicycle industry. This summer I completed two major tasks. First, I nearly doubled the amount of pins on the map. Much of my new material highlights women’s work in factories, and I also added…