by Nikki Silva | Oct 28, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Academia is changing. The old standard 500+ page, written dissertation may become obsolete as new technologies develop and academia starts accepting new models of the dissertation. One model is incorporating digital components (i.e. a map, database, appendices, or...
by Jessica Yann | Oct 22, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
These past few weeks I’ve been pondering what to do for my CHI fellowship project. This has prompted a lot of introspection on what I think is important about digital cultural heritage, along with many internet searches. One of my core beliefs is that archaeology, in...
by Erin Pevan | Oct 21, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Since my last blog post, the foundations of digital project planning have been arranged, and the next steps have been taken towards creating the framework for my CHI project. From learning the fundamentals of project management to work plan preparation to geospatial...
by Jack Biggs | Oct 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Hi everyone! So I tried to post my introduction blog a while back but I guess I somehow messed it up and it never appeared so this is going to be a double blog today. My name is Jack Biggs and I am a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. My focus...
by pebbles1 | Oct 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, I presented some research on place and space at the Cultural Rhetorics Conference (CRCon). My presentation was on “Whose Voice and Space?: A look at white space and rhetorical sovereignty in St. Kitts memory of colonization.” Specifically, I...
by Autumn Painter | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
This past week I attended the 60th anniversary of the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Iowa City, Iowa. While my presentation overlapped with the digital archaeology session, I was able to attend one presentation by Dr. Sissel Schroeder, Jake Pfaffenroth, Marissa...
by mahnkes1 | Oct 10, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This last week, we discussed Geospatial visualization tools to aid the creation, display, and emphasis of geospatial analytics. As a researcher of the rhetoric of place and space, that is, the communicative relationship between citizens and locales,...
by nelso663 | Oct 8, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
I recently switched to one of these wireless service providers with a sort of pay-as-you-go model, and so now I’m (trying to be?) thriftier when it comes to the data I consume. Earlier today, as we wrapped up our cultural heritage project pitch websites and...
by nelso663 | Sep 30, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Hi there, CHI community. I’m Michael Nelson, and I’m really excited to be a part of this cohort. I’m in my second year of the master’s program in Media and Information at MSU’s Department of Media and Information. After watching movies...
by nesbit17 | Sep 30, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Hello! My name is Monica Nesbitt. I am a third year PhD student in Linguistics. My research interests are in the subfields of phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistics. More specifically, I am interested in probing the ways in which social and cognitive attributes...
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