by Jessica Pettengill | May 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Media is full of narratives. Some narratives are helpful, and some are harmful. But always, media embeds narratives in society’s collective memory. They become the first rough draft of our history. StoryAtlas was created to map narratives that matter. StoryAtlas...
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...
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