Digital Knowledge Fellows

Category: Website

  • Preserving Our Pastime

    Preserving Our Pastime

    Creator

    Drew Meisenheimer

     

    Project

     Preserving Our Pastime site

    screenshot of website homepage that features the title, Preserving Our Pastime, a logo that is shaped a like a baseball diamond with a batter swinging. Frontpage also features a picture of a baseball stadium

    About the Project

     This project is building off of a previous one where I built a StoryMap in ArcGIS examining the historic preservation and interpretation efforts at 13 Negro League Baseball Stadiums. I found a lot of other directions I could take it, so thought starting a podcast and website to talk about more of those different things could be cool. Through a DKC Fellowship, I have built the website in WordPress, and built the podcast using Adobe Podcast and SoundTrap. Putting it all together has been a learning curve for me, but it has also been super fun and I hope to be able to continue it after I graduate!

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Losing CTRL

    Losing CTRL

    Creator(s)

    Eugene Hlaing & Liam Kiely

    Project

    Losing CTRL site

    a comic featuring two characters where one character insists they don't do video game violence because as one character puts it, "we're refined"
    Example comic

    About the Project

     A reflection of the Two Gamers on a Couch genre through the lens of an archivist revisiting and reuploading the 2008 webcomic “Losing CTRL.” The genre became popular in the early 2000s, characterized by gag-of-the-week webcomics typically featuring two friends shooting the breeze while playing video games. Now considered lost media, Losing CTRL garnered the negative attention of “The Archivist” and their friends, and turned Nate, our artist, into a niche internet “LOLCOW” — a target of harassment for public entertainment. Writing both the comic and commentary, we explore the perspectives of an amateur artist during the 2008 election, and the perspective of the archivist on their past relationship.