by Jessica Pettengill | Mar 22, 2024 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
One of the challenges of my project is that not only am I building a digital experience, but I’m attempting a new method of analysis. It is both new to my own research methods toolbox, and it is a process that is rarely used in my field. NLP (or natural language...
by Jessica Pettengill | Feb 22, 2024 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Among my friends and family, it’s widely assumed that because I have some vague knowledge of HTML and CSS I can make anything on the internet work. I don’t have the heart to tell them how wildly inaccurate this is. One of the reasons I wanted to become a...
by Jessica Pettengill | Jan 23, 2024 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, Uncategorized
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...
by Jessica Pettengill | Dec 19, 2023 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, Uncategorized
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...
by Jessica Pettengill | Nov 22, 2023 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, Introductions
Welcome! I’m Jessica Pettengill, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Information and Media program in the School of Journalism. My journey to a Ph.D. and the CHI fellowship began in 2019 while I was an assignment editor at a broadcast station in my hometown of...
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