{"id":989,"date":"2017-10-13T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=989"},"modified":"2017-10-13T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T01:26:52","slug":"blog-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/13\/blog-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my first blog post I will be introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/scalar.usc.edu\/works\/chicanadiasporic\/chicana-diasporic-an-introduction?path=comadres-as-comrades\">Chicana Disaporic: A Nomadic Journey of the Activist Exiled<\/a> by Linda Garcia Merchant. In her digital work, Linda chronicles an ideological journey of Chicana women, who strived to find a place of their own, after straddling the sideline of the Chicano Movement and the White Feminist Movement of the 1960s &#8211; 1970s. This online exhibition depicts the struggles and achievements of women enrolled in the Chicana Caucus of the National Women&#8217;s Political Caucus (NWPC) from 1973 to 1979, and it does so by using speeches, posters, photographs, and interview clips, to present a concise narrative and timeline using the unique interface of the website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To begin dissecting Linda&#8217;s digital exhibition, she received funding and support through the 2017 University Libraries&#8217; Digital Scholarship Incubator (DSI) Fellowship from her university. The materials for her project were collected from the <a href=\"http:\/\/chicanapormiraza.org\/\"><em>Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital Memory Collective<\/em><\/a>, a online repository containing over 100 various oral histories, as well as over 5000 digitized archival documentation, pertaining to Chicana&#8217;s and their role during the civil rights movements of the 1960&#8217;s&#8211;making their voices heard and saved foe generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once information was gathered, and which is done so continuously, Linda processed the information using two types of digital software: an application called <a href=\"http:\/\/scalar.usc.edu\/scalar\/\">Scalar<\/a> along with an application called Omeka. Scalar is an online platform that provides researches with a digital template that can be used to present data more organically&#8211;deviating from the more linear presentation of data. Researches are able to combine various media templates with their own writing, creating a much more immersive experience for the view, and with minimal technical experience required. <a href=\"https:\/\/omeka.org\/about\/\">Omeka<\/a> is a open source publishing platform that allows researches to make their work accessible to the world wide web. The question I have now is how does a web platform like Omeka support the application processing power of Scalar?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Linda presents here work in such a way that is divided up into six chapters or themes. Each chapter highlights a different component to the Chicana&#8217;s character throughout their six years as a part of the caucus&#8211; for example, detailing motherly duties or political clout&#8211; that shapes their ideological journey. If a viewer wants to examine the content even further they are able to use various options&#8211;grid, radial, path&#8211; to track the important narrative that each primary source contributes to. Overall, I think this is a user friendly website that does a great job at providing insight into a topic that not many people may know about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my first blog post I will be introducing Chicana Disaporic: A Nomadic Journey of the Activist Exiled by Linda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}