{"id":74,"date":"2019-09-02T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:26:11","slug":"blog-post-1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/dighist\/blog-post-1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Within the first week of class, I\u2019ve learned a lot more about the 1930s and FDR\u2019s New Deal programs. I remember learning about this topic during 6th<\/sup>grade history, but it hasn\u2019t surfaced in my mind since then. I always admired FDR\u2019s New Deal because I was impressed as to how one man could think of so many generally positive programs and pull an entire country out of a Depression. Through the readings, I\u2019ve learned what specifically some of the programs did, as well as the fact that in order to get some of them passed, FDR had to ignore some of the racial inequalities in the South. This hasn\u2019t clouded my views of him and the belief that he was a great and successful president. However, I think I would\u2019ve just admired him even more if he did<\/em>advocate for African Americans during that time. One could argue that this advocating was done through the form of his New Deal projects; though, I\u2019m referring more towards civil rights initiatives. Then again, according to the readings, the civil rights movement as we know of today came out of FDR\u2019s lack of action in the 1930s\/1940s. So, I suppose, everything worked out positively in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve never taken a class that\u2019s mixed history with technology, so I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s in store for the rest of the semester. Just from this past week, I\u2019m excited to learn more about the 1930s decade and what the country looked like beyond the Great Depression. I\u2019m also not technologically savvy, other than knowing more about social media and my Apple products than my parents, so I\u2019m interested in learning more about the history of technology. How did we get from giant, million-dollar computers to me typing this blog post out on my Mac? More important, why is technology so important to society in general? I think I take for granted going on websites and retrieving information, but it\u2019s rarely that I think about how a website or a technological system is made. Even when I do, I feel like it\u2019s too advanced for me to understand. I hope that through this class, I\u2019ll no longer feel that way and be confident in the fact that I can be a successful, informed creator of technology, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The digital project that I analyzed was titled, \u201cVirtual Harlem,\u201d an interactive, visual representation of what Harlem, New York looked like during the Harlem Renaissance. The source is the Harlem Renaissance, \u201ccirca 1920 \u2013 1934.\u201d The process included sorting information using radial, index, path, and media visualizations to show connections between prominent figures and their works. Dr. Bryan Carter and students at the University of Arizona presented the website by numbering artists, musicians, and writers vertically down the left-hand sidebar, and providing biographical information, pictures, and\/or videos when clicked on their names. They also created the \u201cVirtual Harlem\u201d demo using the Virtual World Web. Additionally, all the website was created using Scalar. I think this was a creative way to show this research because it creates a digital environment that lets students who have no connection or knowledge of the Harlem Renaissance really imagine themselves there, interacting with the times, in a way that I don\u2019t believe a textbook, lecture, or movie can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, Jessica. \u201cVirtual Harlem.\u201d An Archive for Virtual Harlem<\/em>, Scalar, 29 Apr. 2015, scalar.usc.edu\/works\/harlem-renaissance\/title-page. Accessed 2 Sep. 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyle, Kevin. \u201cThe President Proposes . . .\u201d The New York Times<\/em>, The New York Times, 5 Apr. 2013, www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/07\/books\/review\/fear-itself-by-ira-katznelson.html<\/a>. Accessed 2 Sep. 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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