For both my pieces, I chose to center around India as it is represented in the Brown University Library system. For the journalistic piece, shown above, I went through Josiah and compared the numbers of results I found for India against results for other countries. Canada and Mexico were chosen for their proximity to the United States, the United States because Providence is within the country, and Italy as a representative of Europe (England was initially chosen but results for New England caused an undue skew). China was selected because Brown held the "Year of China" two years after holding the "Year of India." Russia was chosen because India and China are often seen as threatening to the U.S. due to their increasing economic power, and this sort of tension and xenophobia has long been extended towards Russia, the upcoming Olympic games highlighting this relationship.
For my second piece, I used Vine to make a series of videos. I looked at the first thousand most relevant entries in Josiah for "India" in the Rockefeller library and made a chart of all of the aisles in which these thousand books were contained, using the short Vine videos to communicate the sense of looking for India in Providence. The aisles containing India on each floor are in the comments of each video.
Watch the Vines here.
No comments:
Post a Comment