My second project that I researched was called\n\u201cHypercities\u201d. This was a project created through Harvard and UCLA by Todd\nPresner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano. This site was a little tricky to\nnavigate because it is a collection of YouTube videos. The group started their YouTube\nchannel in 2011 and posted consistently until about 3 years ago when they\nstopped. The group posted a book about their experience and findings in 2014.\nThe basis of the project is to make cities more than just a space or a\ncollection of building, but to evaluate the past, navigate the present, and\npredict future possibilities based on the networks provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project\nseemed to be a compilation of a few different projects which were all very\ndifferent but stemmed from the same use of mapping. They have created a\ndatabase that is compiled of maps from different places in different time zones\nin the past. For example, you can go into the data set and find Germany in\nworld war 2 or see Paris in 1704. They got this information from Google Earth\nand Photographic documents and then were able to publish it with Stream Daemon.\nThey have a very large and extensive library of maps from the past. These maps\nare also interactive. You can adjust hoe see through they are as they lay over\nthe modern maps in order to compare and contrast them to each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another project\nthat I watched a video about was created singularly by Kawano. It references\nthe large tsunami that took place in Japan on March 11. At the time, no one had\ncell service, so the people who faced that catastrophe used Twitter to live\nstream their locations in an attempt to be found. Kawano created a program that\nyou could plug in a \u201ctopic\u201d and a \u201cplace\u201d that would then show you the exact\nlocation of anyone tweeting about that topic in the surrounding area. He talked\nabout how this program would be helpful in natural disasters around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The map creators\nalso built several 3D models of old historic sites. Users are able to take on\nthe shape of an avatar as they explode Rome and Greece and for some reason have\nbuildings fall from the sky. It isn\u2019t the prettiest graphically but it\u2019s cool to\nsee the city they build with the information they had available. It even has a\nchat feature so you can play with friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The creators of\nthis data set took a lot of data and compiled it in different ways. They had to\norganize and create a way that what they were making could be displayed\nvisually. The mission statement of this site shows a strong desire to have\ntheir work built upon. They have several videos that will walk you step by step\nthrough the process of making something very similar to what they already have\ndone. This is all in video form, which is a drawback when you are trying to\nhurry and figure out exactly what to do but is probably beneficial to be able\nto watch and follow along step by step. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I really liked\nthis project because I could see the benefits for it easily. I feel like more\noften than not I have a hard time seeing how digital approaches to the\nhumanities lead to things that aren\u2019t just interesting facts. I liked the\ntwitter project because it had a solid and concrete concept that was so\napplicable to the world we live in and I could see the benefit from it. It is a\nproject that could help people survive. I think the maps would be so helpful\nfor historians, especially with the goal to adapt from the past. I mentioned\nthe incredibly tedious way this website is formatted, which was very\nfrustrating and hard to get around. Project wise, I think they all could have\nbeen explained better instead of just letting individuals figure it all out for\nthemselves. A flaw with the twitter project is that in order to be used, the\nperson sending out the tweet must have their location turned on which is not\nalways the smartest thing to do on the internet. Overall, I really enjoyed\nlearning about this project. It made me excited about the digital humanities\nand the possibilities it has that are sometimes hard to recognize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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