My research agenda focuses on investigating how data infrastructures support and are imbued with different values. One component of this larger research agenda is to develop new ways to activate different types of data with different groups of stakeholders to promote political mobilization around social justice issues. Using digital humanities tools and techniques, I explore how alternate methods of data production and visualization might promote new ways of engaging with knowledge that can promote justice, broadly speaking.
Below I highlight many projects that can be considered to be within the realm of the digital humanities. The first four: Throughlines, ACTUP/LA, the Southern California Climate Data Protection Project and the Police officer Involved Homicide Project, I produced most recently while engaged with the Digital Humanities program at UCLA. These projects adhere to my research agenda. The remaining projects I completed before and during the completion of my master's in media studies at The New School and generally exercise different ways of envisioning information infrastructures.
Below I highlight many projects that can be considered to be within the realm of the digital humanities. The first four: Throughlines, ACTUP/LA, the Southern California Climate Data Protection Project and the Police officer Involved Homicide Project, I produced most recently while engaged with the Digital Humanities program at UCLA. These projects adhere to my research agenda. The remaining projects I completed before and during the completion of my master's in media studies at The New School and generally exercise different ways of envisioning information infrastructures.
THROUGHLINES: ACTIVISM AND HIGHWAYS IN LOS ANGELES
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This Scalar archive demonstrates how contemporary highways are historically situated sites of contestation in which previous generations of racialized communities have paid the high price for Los Angeles’ development into a renowned center of both commerce and culture. We hope this digital archive of materials related to activism in Los Angeles might inspire and inform contemporary activists, researchers, and students. Roles: project management, built and implemented Scalar site combining Google Maps and timeline.js |
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This project seeks to animate an archive of images that illuminate ACT UP/LAs existence beginning in the early 1980s. By associating particular events in ACT UP/ LAs history with the images that are linked to chronological and geographical information, we are able to see the diffusion of ACT UP/LAs work as it progressed through the 1980s and early 1990s. As our project links these two interfaces – the map and the timeline – users may trace their way through the multifaceted work of ACT UP/LA in Los Angeles in this time period. Roles: project management and conceptualization, interface design and implementation into the html site. |
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This multi-faceted project investigates police officer-involved homicide (POIH) data as a mechanism for fostering civic data literacy, accountability and political action that challenges existing policies. We performed various modes of participatory action research with community stakeholders to imagine how data can provide a means of wresting control of the power of certain ‘authoritative’ metrics by challenging them or devising new ones. Roles: researcher, project manager, community outreach liaison, website developer |
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The Southern California Climate Data Protection Project is committed to protecting and preserving scientific climate data, through systematic analysis of infrastructures and methods of data collection, curation, and management. We are equally concerned with how access to scientific data allows the public to invest in government accountability and to demand sustainable policies.We are partners with the international DataRefuge effort and the Environmental Data Governance Initiative. Roles: researcher, project manager, community outreach liaison, website developer |
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Developed new ways to tell stories and convey artistic projects through Triple Canopy's interactive website. Roles: edited audiovisual pieces, consulted with contributors on concepts and structure, laid out pieces in CSS and HTML, ran Triple Canopy social media, conceptualized, organized, recorded, and edited public events. |
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VIBRANT MATERIALS: THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE
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