by carlinek | Jan 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
For the next four months of the CHI Fellowship, I will be building my project, provisionally titled Mapping Consumers in the Black South African Press. As I’ve discussed in previous posts, I’m interested in what we can learn about consumer culture —...
by Daniel Fandino | Jan 12, 2018 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
In May of 2017 while in Tokyo I visited Meiji shrine in Shinjuku for the Spring Grand Festival, a series of traditional performances including dance, archery and theater. After returning home, I posted a few photos of the event to social media, as people of my...
by Cody M | Dec 14, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
The nascent field of queer game studies has expanded exponentially in recent years thanks to the work of scholars such as Adrienne Shaw, Bonnie Ruberg, and Edmond Chang. Yet, despite growing scholarly attention to queer characters and players, queer game studies faces...
by dixonel7 | Dec 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
In my previous posts, I’ve outlined some of the ways making and multimodal composing offer up spaces for people to make in order to make their worlds. In my last post, I articulated what I think are some differences between multimodal composing and making. In...
by Cody M | Dec 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
It’s no secret that gaming cultures and communities—including game studies—have longstanding issues with inclusion, especially inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented peoples. The most apparent example of this is #GamerGate, the thinly veiled, ongoing...
by Jack Biggs | Dec 11, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, Uncategorized
Since I’m a returning CHI Fellow for this school year, I wanted to do something quite different compared to my project from last school year. That previous project is called J-Skel and it is an online juvenile skeletal age estimator. That project focused more on the...
by carlinek | Dec 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the project I’ll be developing over the next year is about advertising in South Africa’s early-twentieth century black press. But how should scholars and people interested in South African cultural heritage understand the...
by Jack Biggs | Dec 8, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
I’m a Teaching Assistant for an Intro to Physical Anthropology course and during their last week of classes before the final, we have a lab activity set up for them where we bring in fossil hominin casts and ask them to look at the variation between them, their...
by carlinek | Dec 7, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This past month in the CHI fellowship, we worked on a practice data visualization project. My group took data about regional sheep and human populations in New Zealand, and showed their differing ratios by region. This got me thinking about the research that I do with...
by Cody M | Dec 6, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
The HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) 2017 conference is already starting to feel like a distant memory, but as always it was a fantastic opportunity to meet with many brilliant scholars, teachers, and activists who are...
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