News & Updates
Struggling with the code: my first steps into developing my project's webpage I. Second thoughts about Startbootstrap.I decided to start my project by creating its home page. It sounded like a good idea because I had invested my summer learning how to code with HTML, CSS, Java Script, and Php. One of the requirements to take the fellow's position at the CHI's fellowship is to complete the free...
Rethinking a digital humanities Project. What to do when the project of your dreams is, in any way, already done?During the first weeks of January 2021 I realized the project I had submitted a couple of weeks before to the CHI fellow chair was already done somehow. As I stated in a previous entry of this blog, I intended to make a web map where sites of memory related to the Colombian inner...
Virtual Work and Social Living
(Disclaimer: this was posted a couple of months ago on the other platform) What will the future hold when it comes to the virtual world? Since March, much of the world has been living a virtual reality modifying our lives, workplaces, and homes into untouchable spaces through the internet and our screens. We have learned to get creative and work remotely in unexpected ways through professions...
Creating a Website – The Art of a Computer’s Brain
https://images.app.goo.gl/8YABK8x44Tzcrx4h9 Remember the desktop application Paint? I always envisioned how I would want to create a website from the surface level of making demands and thinking I can enter some type of platform where it is like a paint canvas. What I have been learning is that creating a website is not only about how we want the eye to see an attractive creation through our...
Digital Pedagogy | Disseminating Accessibility
One positive that may have come out of socially-distanced learning and research is creativity, the need for open-access, and collaboration. While COVID-19 has propelled and inspired innovative techniques in digital pedagogy, it has also illuminated the lack of data openly available for education. As a discipline, forensic anthropology is hands-on and highly visual, especially in education....
Mapping Dionysian memories with Leaflet
Mapping is not only about representing space. It is about representing space from humans' perspectives, and therefore, it is about telling a story. Maps can be works of art, they can be instruments of war, or they can be a testament to the places where dominant morality and "good judgment" halt for a couple of hours. One thing never changes, though: a map is always a story. This entry is...
The Mapping Challenge: “That’s one small step for mankind, one giant leap for me”*
2021 has literally begun, it looks like a continuation of its bloody sibling 2020, though. Spring 2021 has literally begun as well with our 3rd and final challenge as groups yet with more challenges. For our last challenge, basically, we created a map of the pre-Covid party/socialization scene of Ph.D. students in Lansing as a commemoration of our pre-Covid life in this small Midwest town. I’m...
Building a CHI project
The CHI fellowship has two moments: introducing the use informatics have for cultural heritage and the development of an individual or a collective digital humanities’ project. The division of those moments is not absolute. The introduction to the use informatics has for social sciences and the humanities comes with instances of practice and learning while doing. During the first part of the CHI...
Visioning Our Final Project | The Migration of Food: Just the Beginning
I was born and raised in Turkey. When I was younger, we, as an extended family, used to spend our summer vacations in the Greek Islands belong to our neighbor country. The main theme of our vacations was the cuisine. Or basically, just eating delicious foods and drinking. To the ones who are not very familiar with them, Turkey and Greece are known for the never-ending political conflict that is...
Beginning Our Final Projects | Visualizing & Planning
The end of the semester in the CHI fellowship comes with the final proposals of our digital cultural heritage projects. Throughout the semester we have been attending workshops and participating in the collaborative rapid development projects to learn skills that will help shape these projects. When I applied for the CHI fellowship I came with an idea that I was really excited about; a teaching...
