by dixonel7 | Feb 16, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts, I’m working on a project that illustrates and advocates for non-linear, queer composing as a death-defying act of world-making. To do this in a digital project, I’ve been making my project using Twine, self-described as “an...
by ellio252 | Feb 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Since returning for the spring semester, I have been hard at work on getting my website up and running. As I have discussed previously, my website focuses on urbanization and migration to Moscow from other parts of the former Soviet Union from 1970 to the present....
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 Nicole Raslich | Feb 6, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As the second half of the academic year is well underway, I am mired in digital platforms, establishing my project. It always helps me, when I get stuck on something and find it overwhelming, to go back and read what I proposed to do. This is where I am starting...
by Daniel Fandino | Feb 2, 2018 | CHI Announcements, CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Grandiose ideas are often the downfall of any undertaking. Take Napoleon and the decision to invade Russia, Tony Stark building Ultron, the Sega Dreamcast and the withdrawal of Sega from the console market. The most important point I am trying to keep in mind for the...
by Julia DeCook | Jan 31, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
For the second part of the CHI fellowship, I’ve proposed a project that would map out an ideological network of celebrities in the “alt-right.” Of course, the term “alt-right’ is an umbrella catch-all term that has been proposed not only...
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 —...
by Daniel Fandino | Jan 12, 2018 | CHI Articles & Discussions, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
In May of 2017 while in Tokyo I visited Meiji shrine in Shinjuku for the Spring Grand Festival, a series of traditional performances including dance, archery and theater. After returning home, I posted a few photos of the event to social media, as people of my...
by Cody M | Dec 14, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
The nascent field of queer game studies has expanded exponentially in recent years thanks to the work of scholars such as Adrienne Shaw, Bonnie Ruberg, and Edmond Chang. Yet, despite growing scholarly attention to queer characters and players, queer game studies faces...
by dixonel7 | Dec 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
In my previous posts, I’ve outlined some of the ways making and multimodal composing offer up spaces for people to make in order to make their worlds. In my last post, I articulated what I think are some differences between multimodal composing and making. In...
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