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Lost in Translation or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Github
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...
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Learning To Code….Twice
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,...
View ArticleProject Plan Overview
For my CHI fellowship project, I hope to use the theoretical framework I have created in my previous project to begin considering how queer modes of making act as a form of world-making. In particular,...
View ArticleCall for 2018-2019 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship...
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2018-2019 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU...
View ArticlePokémon GO and Narrative
Pokémon GO was, and is, one of the most interesting examples of gaming culture in the last two years. Many players and critics have commented on how fad-ish the game was: it became instantly and...
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Pictures and Conversation
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or...
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Visualizing the Past: Maps and Photography
With the technical issues of my project mostly resolved, the remaining elements to complete are the core of the web site: the information on the venues and their connection to the remaking of the Tokyo...
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My Adventures in Troubleshooting (and the Importance of Good Technical Writing)
Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned during this CHI project is how necessary various forums on HTML and CSS are to a person’s progress on a project. Over the last few weeks, I’ve had to rely...
View ArticleAdventures in Courier New
This is one of my last weeks at CHI and its led me to think about all of the progress I’ve made this year learning to code. I’m not sure if my project will really highlight all that I know and have...
View ArticleLaunching: Networks of Hate
After a long seven months of dreaming, planning, and making, I’m happy to announce that my project, “Networks of Hate: Visualizing Extremist Celebrity Networks” is now live! The motivation behind...
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Launching: No Mud Huts
Today I officially launch No Mud Huts: an open anthropological journal about Kenya’s tech industry! Through this site I intend to contribute to the open science research movement as a part of my...
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Launching: Queer Intersections: Visualizing the LGBTQ Video Game Archive!
I’m thrilled to finally announce the launch of Queer Intersections: Visualizing the LGBTQ Video Game Archive! This collection of visualizations reveals trends in LGBTQ representation in video games...
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Launch of Tokyo 6420!
I am pleased to announce the launch of Tokyo 6420, a digital project on the Tokyo Olympic Games. Taking the name from the combination of the 1964 Games and the upcoming 2020 Games, Tokyo 6420 attempts...
View ArticleIdentifying Amber Plemons
Hello, unidentified individuals. I use that term frequently. Unidentified individuals. My name is Amber Plemons. I am identified. I have the ability to speak and advocate for myself. But what happens...
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A Question of Authenticity: Digital Artifacts in Museums
One of the reasons I was drawn to the CHI fellowship was my interest in the digital preservation of artifacts and historical sites for use in museums. I saw the opportunities of photogrammetry and 3D...
View ArticlePrivacy in Digitally-Driven Projects in Forensic Anthropology
Today, the majority of research and daily practices in Forensic Anthropology have a digital component. When writing grant proposals for forensic research, institutions, such as National Institute of...
View ArticleMapping Marvell and Indigenous Mapping
Expectations At the beginning of this journey in CHI, I had no idea how we were going to go about learning to do culture digitally. Learning some Java, building a website and watching The Matrix seemed...
View ArticleWho Writes Our Stories?: Critical Digital Literacies & Youth Activism
My research interests are transdisciplinary and primarily focus on race, storytelling, and s/place. Working alongside communities of Color, I also consider education and schooling sites to make...
View ArticleDigitizing the History of Archaeology: Ethical responsibilities
Recently I have had the opportunity to scan over 1000 slides of excavations that occurred along the southern coast of Peru throughout the 90’s and early 00’s. While the task itself was mundane and took...
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To the Beginning: Anime and American Fandom in the 1980s
The first problem to resolve in mapping out American anime fandom is where to situate a start point for the project. The first major anime convention in the United States was Project A-Kon, first held...
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