Angelica’s Project Notes Part 1 – Design

Hello again! Since my last post, I’ve been busy designing the narrative and digital infrastructure for my project titled (Un)Mapping the (Settler) Colonial Forest. In this new post, I’ll outline a few key parts about this design process. First, I’ll talk about the...

Mapping the News Cycle via StoryAtlas

The first step in creating our CHI Fellowship project is pitching our project idea to our cohort. Each of the fellows creates a project vision document, where we define our project scope, product, audiences, technology needs, and all manner of details about the...

Mapping Mahaweli: writing the world from a river

During our last meeting in Fall 2023, I presented my proposal for the final project inspired by the second rapid development project in Sri Lanka. I proposed building a website called “Mapping Mahaweli” with a digital map that archives the historical...

(Un)Mapping the Settler Colonial Forest

In my last post I briefly introduced myself (#PrimaDeAfuera), described the work I do, and highlighted some of the people who help make my time here at MSU possible. In this post, I share more about the project I want to work on for the remainder of the CHI...

News as Cultural Heritage

One of the questions that has challenged me as a CHI fellow is, “What qualifies as cultural heritage?” As a journalism and media scholar, I am often confronted with the tension-filled role journalism fills, a perhaps self-imposed role that is situated...

Angélica De Jesús // CHI Fellow 2023-24

Hi there, I’m Angélica De Jesús; a doctoral student in the MSU Sociology Department and /literal/ mami currently living in Nkwejong (aka Lansing, Michigan). During a recent chat with my abu Eréndira, she asked detailed questions about what I do at MSU. Our...