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Project: Smart City Tracker
Humanity’s success in tackling environmental, economic, and social sustainability challenges directs the path of our future. As smart cities (i.e. cities that incorporate information and communications technology into management strategies to solve problems in public domains) have emerged as solutions to urban sustainability, current knowledge on how this conceptual idea has been deployed at the…
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Accessibility and Social Justice
While developing the site and submission portal for materials to be hosted on The Social Justice Classroom, I have been occupied with issues of accessibility. Teaching in only one institution has given me the luxury to dismiss the ethics of assuming everyone has a google account because this particular institution grants all enrolled students access…
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Lansing’s Culinary Heritage Trail
My Project for this year is tentatively named the Lansing Culinary Heritage Trail and it will be a straightforward web map based digital heritage trail. The project concept is relatively simple, but the application is more advanced than the Twine-based project I built as a fellow in 2019-2020. A major challenge to the project is…
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Ethical Engagements with Ownership and Digital Heritage: Examining Two (Connected) Case Studies
Back in my November blog post, I wrote about exploring copyright and ownership in digital heritage. In that post, I focused on UNESCO documentation explaining the various policies related to digital heritage. As I promised at the end of that post, I’m following up with a quick look at some articles and essays tied to…
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Project: The Social Justice Classroom
For my fellowship project, I decided to build a website dedicated to crowdsourcing antiracist pedagogical material. I developed this idea last year while I was a fellow for MSU’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, and was inspired by Ronjaunee Chatterjee’s, Alicia Mireles Christoff’s, and Amy R. Wong’s 2020 article, “Undisciplining Victorian Studies, which…
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Plotting Colombian Emblematic Memories
While acknowledging the existence of different models of emblematic memory for the sake of transformative dialogues about the past, Plotting Emblematic Memories project proposes to identify the type of cultural model an individual uses to make sense of the past. As you may be thinking, you take the test, the application makes some calculations, and…
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Introducing the “Stratford-upon-Avon Affects Map” Project
In my last blog post, I had indicated that I would use this month’s post to continue with my exploration into copyright and ownership in relation to digital heritage; however, I will continue that series in the new year. Instead, today I would like to introduce my fellowship project that I will be working on…
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Contemplating Crowdsourcing in Digital Cultural Heritage
In this blog post I will explore some of the views on the use of crowdsourcing for digital projects in the humanities. I am interested this this literature because for my future dissertation project I am considering crowdsourcing data from the local community. In general researchers and institutions can crowdsource project tasks through self-developed sites…
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Introducing “God-Honoring Snark”
For my CHI project, I am conducting a text analysis of a popular subreddit in which participants “snark” on fundamentalist Christian media to explore how community members recognize and respond to misogyny in fundamentalist media. Reddit is a forum-based social media platform frequently used for geek, meme, and niche interest discussions, including extremist political and…
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Data for Mapping
Our last rapid development challenge “mapping memory” makes me think that the data sources for mapping and spatial analysis nowadays can be very different from the situation in John Snow’s time (the cholera person not the one on a dragon). I have seen more and more space related studies and projects being conducted based on…