tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21734523729904314882012-01-16T03:17:46.789-05:00musings on the past, new media, education, spatial analysis, and culture - you know, whatever I feel like talking aboutEdward Gonzalez-Tennanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02532203927222981794noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2173452372990431488.post-16796375763289180092012-01-14T12:54:00.018-05:002012-01-14T13:09:20.326-05:00

This year marked my first post-PhD experience at an annual Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) conference. The Baltimore conference was, for me, one of the best SHA meetings. The weather was nice, great food, and excellent nearby attractions like the USS Constellation. What an experience to see the conference "from the other side" of the academic divide, as ephemeral as the divide is in a

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One of my primary interests as a geographic information systems (GIS) educator is exploring new ways of teaching GIS, and spatial analysis in particular. Lessons about network analysis and habitat modeling are some of the most difficult to explain because of their technical nature - not to mention the complicated process of arranging and changing data to accomplish various analyses. Therefore,

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Greetings, I have made two major updates to the Virtual Rosewood Research Site (VRRP) in the past couple of months. The first update is the addition of oral history transcriptions to the VRRP Data Warehouse. The second major update involves the completion of the Virtual Rosewood online world. Rosewood Oral Histories OnlineThe first update involves the addition of several oral history

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How cold is it? Is it raining? Will it be sunny today? Questions like these have surely been asked by humans since the dawn of time. Weather certainly plays an important role in human society. As such, scholars are increasingly looking at the ways weather affected the past (see Durschmied's The Weather Factor and Fagan's The Little Ice Age for recent examples). The 1923 riot which destroyed

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As the primary/initial phase of the Virtual Rosewood Research Project (VRRP) comes to a close, I have decided to begin posting some of the data I've used for my study online. While I plan to remain active in researching Rosewood in the future, the completion of my dissertation and a virtual model of Rosewood signals the end of the project as envisioned when I began systematic research in 2008.

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The following describes an experimental archaeology project conducted during the 2005-2006 academic year. I volunteered as an interpretive blacksmith at Morningside Nature Center in Gainesville, Florida in order to complete the project. I have often thought about publishing a short article about the project, but have not done so yet. blacksmithing at Morningside Nature Center, 2005 Historical

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Greetings, Just a short post today about typographic maps, which are very cool! A typographic map uses words like the names of cities, streets, and other features to construct a cartographic representation of somewhere. I just wanted to point out some cool typographic map links. Chartis Graphein's typographic map available at Design Ahoy (via Flowing Data) Axis Maps offers typographic maps

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A major methodological aspect of my PhD involves working with historic property deeds. A significant part of this involves reconstructing past property boundaries from deeds using geographic information systems (GIS). This is a time intensive process, but the results are powerful. The Method in a Nutshell The basic methodology for creating a historic property GIS involves three steps: 1) Access

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My PhD research focuses on contextualizing the racially charged collective violence which destroyed the town of Rosewood, Florida in the first week of 1923. I am constantly reading reports, documents, accounts, and analysis about lynchings and race riots. Many of these draw on personal experiences from witnesses. Every so often, one of these excerpts strikes me as a particularly powerful

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This is the first post in a general effort to be more active in regards to my blogging activities during 2011. This post is inspired by two things; my research into race riots as part of my larger PhD project, and a recent New York Times article about tracing New York's shifting ethnic population. You can view the newspaper article here. The following five images show general

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I recently added a new assignment to my Introduction to General Anthropology (ANT 2000) course taught at the University of Florida during autumn 2010. My goal for the new assignment was to give students more leeway in exploring anthropology in a creative and self-empowering fashion. I figured, since I use digital storytelling as a research and collaborative method, perhaps I could ask students to

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The following is a short piece I had in Anthro News back in 2004 (Volume 45 Issue 4, page 46), discussing my experience as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Arkansas. I'm reproducing it here because I think this answers many questions that some of my students have recently asked about getting involved in international research. Its funny, looking back on it, I'm surprised by how

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Greetings, This is a quick post about the session I organized for the 2010 AAA. I received notification about a month ago that it was accepted. This is a large session with fourteen papers and one discussant, reaching the maximum of 15 slots as set forth by the AAA. It should be a very interesting session and presenters come from diverse backgrounds, are interested in a variety of topics, and

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The following is a (growing) bibliography of books, chapters and journal articles about the use of virtual world environments in heritage research and management. Understanding the history and dominant uses of this technology allows me to better situate my own research with the Virtual Rosewood Research Site. I also want to document conferences, websites, programs, and other resources currently

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This post is a copy of my upcoming piece for the 2010 Anthropology News special issue on "Anthropology and the Census". The only differences between the published version and this one is the inclusion of references here. I began researching the tragic history of Rosewood, Florida in the spring of 2005 as a side project. Initially, I felt the inability to conduct conventional archaeological

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This is a short story about an unexpected collaboration between myself and a group of fine arts students centering around Kingsley Plantation and taking place in Gainesville, Florida. Early in the fall semester of 2009, I was approached by a small group of graduate students who were putting on a play about the life and times of Anna Madgigne Jai Kingsley, the enslaved child bride of Zephaniah

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Recently, as part of a small collective of anthropology students here at the University of Florida, I have begun turning my attention to postcolonial studies as a possible complimentary theoretical perspective for critical race theory (CRT). My interest in postcolonial theory focuses on its ability to intersect with a critical race theory framework to produce a deeper understanding of race,

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I saw James Cameron's Avatar during the holiday break. While I, like everyone else who has seen this movie, was mesmerized by the cutting-edge special effects, it was the content which I want to discuss in this post. In essence, I think Avatar literally masks colonial hierarchies where race remains an important factor in structuring social relationships. This movie speaks to people on three

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Greetings, This is a video I created of my talk at the 2009 Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium (RATS) held on October 17 at SUNY Binghamton. The organizers recorded every presenter and uploaded the audio of our talks online at www.radio4all.org. I downloaded the mp3 of my talk and used free movie maker software to line up my PowerPoint slides with the audio. Now, you can watch my slides and

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Greetings, Just a short post about a new tool which visualizes the location of journal authors. AuthorMapper uses a Google Maps API as the background upon which it places little markers representing author locations and concentrations. The deeper red a marker is the more times that author and/or location is represented in the list of authors for a journal For instance, the below map shows

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Greetings, The video below is my first attempt at creating a digital media artifact. Its a short piece using Isadora to manipulate a short video segment in three different ways. Isadora is a graphic programming environment for Macintosh and Windows that provides interactive control over digital media. It is specially geared towards real-time manipulation of video, audio, 3D models, and so forth.

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Greetings, Just a quick note about a short survey I recently took of 140 undergraduate students at the University of Florida. This was in preparation for a talk I'm giving at this year's Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium at SUNY Binghamton on October 17. The title of my paper is Anarchy, Ethics, and Pedagogy in Engaged Archaeology. In this paper I look at anarchism as both a philosophy of

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So, this is a post using basic statistical graphics to tell a story about the ethnic and gender make-up of the knowledge industry at the University of Florida. So, what do I mean by this? Basically, I want to look at the university as a factory, one that produces knowledge. Obviously, our knowledge factory is part of a larger knowledge industry called academia. It produces usable things (e.g.,

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William S. Burroughs and Brian Gyson's technique of the cut-up can be seen as a form of hypertext. While this statement has been bandied about in relation to computer-based hypertext (e.g., the text you're reading now, complete with hyperlinks), what do we mean by the term hypertext? The obvious definition of this word deals with the way we utilize the written word online. This allows us to

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Tim Lenoir's article "All but War is Simulation: The Military-Entertainment Complex" illuminates the close relationship between the US military and entertainment industries. The sinister links he exposes reminds us of the interconnectedness of our modern world. In the end, what emerges from this article is a world of shadowy military agents roaming the halls of academia and the entertainment

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Sherry Mayo's article "The Prelude to the Millennium: The Backstory of Digital Aesthetics" was published one year ago this month. The basic premise of this article is to demonstrate what is and is not new about 'New Media' by historicizing the concept. Her primary method for tracing developments in media technology is to create a series of partially overlapping spheres for each decade between the

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Hi, this is Ed. This post is about handheld augmented/mixed reality and its growing potential for heritage work. So, in the following I will briefly define augmented reality, talk about some recent developments in this technology for handheld devices, and its potential for heritage work. Augmented reality (often abbreviated as AR) and mixed reality (MR) are used somewhat interchangeably and

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