by dixonel7 | Oct 27, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info, Uncategorized
Part of my goal in the CHI fellowship has been to explore an idea I have been developing over the last year about queer multimodal composing: that the act of making things can make worlds. I’m definitely not the first person to have developed an understanding of...
by Jack Biggs | Oct 18, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Archaeologists and anthropologist back in the day (say around the later Victorian era and the early 20th century) had it easy in terms of research and methodologies. Study subjects and specimens were abundant while strict and standardized methodologies were not....
by dixonel7 | Oct 18, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Hi Everyone! I’m Elise Dixon and I am a third-year PhD student in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures program. I am very excited to be a part of the 2017-2018 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship– it fits very well with my research interests. My...
by Daniel Fandino | Oct 15, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As a historian in training in academia today, the question of technology goes beyond the subjects I study into the current state of the profession I have chosen to enter. In teaching digital tools to undergraduate classes I see a break as substantial as the line...
by Julia DeCook | Oct 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
The reason why I wanted to do this fellowship was not only to expand my knowledge of computational/digital methods of approaching cultural heritage questions but also to have this methodological knowledge situated in appropriate theoretical and philosophical...
by Nicole Raslich | Oct 9, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
My own recent ethnohistoric research for family genealogy made me think about ChiMatrix and the need to digitize old documents public documents. Anyone who has ever used county libers will agree but for those of you who have not, let me explain. Prior to the 1960’s,...
by carlinek | Oct 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is my second blog post for the CHI fellowship. Today I’m thinking and writing about digital maps, and how those let us see cultural and social divides in the present and the past. Africa’s a Country, a website whose purpose is to counter that old mistake Western...
by Cody M | Oct 3, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Hi Everyone! I’m Cody Mejeur, and I’m extremely excited to be joining the CHI Fellows program for 2017-18. I’m a PhD student in the Department of English at MSU working at the intersection of many related areas: new media, narrative theory, game studies, cognitive...
by Daniel Fandino | Sep 29, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Greetings traveler on the great ocean of knowledge that is the internet! My name is Daniel Fandino and I am a first year PhD student in the Department of History at Michigan State University and a 2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellow. My research is centered on...
by Jack Biggs | Sep 27, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Greetings everyone! My name is Jack Biggs and if my name sounds familiar, that is because I was a CHI Fellow during the last academic year and was fortunate enough the be a returning Fellow for this year. I am now a 4th year graduate student in the Department of...
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