by David Bennett | Oct 23, 2014 | CHI Announcements, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
Today marks the official launching of Visualizing Southern Television 2.0, the second version of my project digitally mapping the footprint for television stations in the south between 1946 and 1965. Back in June, I began the process of deconstructing the mapping...
by David Bennett | Jun 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Television is a geographically complex technology, as its signals ignore state and national boundaries and the physical location of a station’s tower is not as important, historically, as the distance traveled by its signal at any given point in time. While...
by David Bennett | May 9, 2014 | CHI Announcements, CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
In 1987, the University of Mississippi held a symposium entitled “Covering the South: A National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement” wherein participants discussed the influence of media on the civil rights movement. During one panel, a group...
by David Bennett | Apr 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Visualizing Southern Television v 1.0 is almost ready for launch: the framework is stable, and I am in the process of uploading data. I note its version number as I have recently begun work on version 2.0. As it stands, v 1.0 documents the southern television...
by David Bennett | Apr 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
The end of March found me escaping the snow-draped landscapes of my East Lansing, Michigan home to attend the 2014 Louisiana Historical Association (LHA) Conference in Hammond where I was to accept the Hugh. F. Rankin Prize. At the conference, I had the opportunity to...
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