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...
by ellio252 | Dec 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
My blog posts thus far have focused on illustrating change over time in some way, shape, or form given that my project grapples with the relationship between Soviet and post-Soviet. My second blog addressed the shortfalls for mapping demonstrating change over time. My...
by Julia DeCook | Dec 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
The cliché of “the Internet never forgets” and my own work has gotten me thinking about how the Internet itself and its functionalities serve as a giant archive for the netizens that inhabit it. Even if the materials themselves aren’t necessarily being carefully...
by dixonel7 | Dec 1, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As we prepare to submit our proposals for our projects, I’m still working through my own thoughts about queer multimodality as a means to “defy death” through a resistance to linear composing and therefore neat, tidy, death-like conclusion. This...
by ellio252 | Nov 15, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Our project proposals are soon due, and I have been thinking about what I would like to show on my future website. In my previous blogs, I have focused a great deal on showing how the physical space that is Moscow has changed, considering the intersections of Soviet...
by Julia DeCook | Nov 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
The conversation around digital data collection and ethics behind it often default to rules/laws that exist in “face-to-face” data collection: if it’s in a public arena, then the rules are the same for observing people in physical public spaces....
by Nicole Raslich | Nov 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Having completed a recent digital mapping exercise in CHI, maps and digitization has been a part of my daily thought process for several weeks now. As a kid, I always loved maps. I would stare at them and dream about all the places I wanted to go and the adventures I...
by ellio252 | Oct 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
For the last several weeks, the CHI fellows have been working on a mapping challenge, in which we have made maps with a specific theme, complete with pop-ups. For my final project, I too hope to have a map to illustrate the locations of Soviet factories and...
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