{"id":190,"date":"2012-02-08T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoveriesoftheamericas.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2012-02-08T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:37:26","slug":"pondering-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/2012\/02\/08\/pondering-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Pondering the Possibilities&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading an article on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Academics-Join-Relief-Efforts\/126912\/\">Crisis Mappers<\/a>&#8221; in academia who literally map world crisis to be used for research I began to ponder just how many ways GIS can impact our work. While I may not study contemporary crises, there are so many crises that do impact my work, such as The Seven Years War and The French and Haitian Revolutions to name a few. I can visualize how mapping communication between France and its colonies during these crises could shed light on my own work. I am imagining a cross between the crisis mappers&#8217;s work and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/republicofletters.stanford.edu\/\">Mapping the Republic of Letters<\/a>\u00a0project. Beyond mapping crises, or mapping travels from a literary text, I think the idea of mapping communication in general is pertinent for many humanists. We can take the idea of communication past personal letters and consider other mediums of communication as well, for example newspapers. I can envision mapping the frequency in which the haitian revolution was mentioned in French newspapers over time. What are other ways that mapping communication can add to our work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading an article on the &#8220;Crisis Mappers&#8221; in academia who literally map world crisis to be used for research I began to ponder just how many ways GIS can impact our work. While I may not study contemporary crises, there are so many crises that do impact my work, such as The Seven Years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-tools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}