In my last blog post, I covered the challenges I was facing with my current exhibit project for the next step in my Digital Public Humanities program. Unfortunately, these problems have continued to persist, resulting in a slowdown of project momentum. Thankfully, it is not all woes this time...
Author - Kyle
One thing that I have come to learn in a very poignant way about digital projects is that they need time: time to develop, time to change, time to succeed. While this is true of virtually any project, digital projects sometimes have this appearance of mystic ease throughout all its stages (at least...
To expand public interest in American Indian communities, histories, and issues, this digital history project proposal defines the importance of developing a source that presents content regarding the 1970 Fort Lawton Takeover in where American Indian activists occupied a decommissioned federal...
To help properly gauge the audience my project aims to cater to, I have created two example personas that I believe encompass an accurate representation of an average person in my audiences. I originally created these personas according to an identified primary and secondary audience. After going...
When “doing” public history, there are numerous factors to consider. Of the many, the most prominent is the balancing of the content in relation to the audience engaging with it. Public history projects exist to bring their historical content to the public in an accessible, informative...
Similarly with the last semester, this round of academic studies will culminate in another digital project. In short, I will be constructing a narrative exhibit with images to commemorate the 50th year anniversary of the Fort Lawton Takeover in Seattle, Washington in 1970 by American Indian...
Our digital world has caused many significant changes with the way historical projects are constructed. Many of the early digital projects centered on the creation of online collections, using the Web as a means to host the analog for depiction. This proved to be useful for scholars and the...
As I continue my foray into the Digital Humanities (DH), I have begun a new semester with HIST 694: Digital Public History. This time around, I will be focusing more on the public aspect of how we can apply the digital skill and techniques we are learning in the course to better present and...
Oh man, was this project a doozie. For this post, I am going to be reflecting on my digital project that I made for my course in Digital Public Humanities out of George Mason University. To find that project, you can click this link or find it on the top of the tabs–it has its own page on my...
As part of my course in Digital Public Humanities (DPH…or just DH), my semester ends with project that is meant to showcase my ability to use a digital tool to produce a piece of scholarship. Yet, what good would such a piece of scholarship be if it were meant only for the eyes of my...
