by carlinek | May 2, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
My project, Mapping Consumers in the Black South African Press, is now live at this address! Mapping Consumers is built with data I collected from two South African newspapers, Bantu World and Umlindi we Nyanga in the 1930s. The 1930s were an important period in the...
by carlinek | Apr 6, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Two weeks ago, I went to Northeastern University’s 10th annual Graduate World History conference. My paper was largely based on the sources that I draw on for my CHI project. This was my first time showing my site to the public, and the deadline for the...
by carlinek | Mar 6, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
In the past month, after several weeks of despairing tinkering, I finally got the features in my GeoJSON files to appear as points on my map. I now feel much more comfortable playing around with Javascript to see what my map can do. Currently my map looks like this:...
by carlinek | Feb 6, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
A month into building my Mapping Consumers project, and this is what my page looks like: I’m building my web map using Bootleaf, trying to tinker with the original code to make it fit my purposes and display my map. Until last week, I hadn’t been having...
by carlinek | Jan 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
For the next four months of the CHI Fellowship, I will be building my project, provisionally titled Mapping Consumers in the Black South African Press. As I’ve discussed in previous posts, I’m interested in what we can learn about consumer culture —...
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