Content

We discussed about contents in our group directed studies today. For my project, content is everything. Without content, my project will be empty. I know I need to collect more data and research aside from the interviews that I did over the summers. The task for this week is to type out survey questions (for data) and also email out to several people the interview questions. I also need to work on a more detailed SSNiF.

I found several sites that I can pull my data and contents from:
http://www.slideshare.net/CIRC/dammjensthe-chinese-diasporic-cyberspace-cultural-essentialism-nationalism-and-hybrid-identities

http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=219

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Overseas_Chinese

http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/ccg/Diaspora.html

http://gocn.southcn.com/english/rootsearching/200508240020.htm

http://www.chinatownstories.com/door-to-door-in-chinatown-zambia/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704682604575369390660095122.html#project%3DCHINAMAP_1007%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive

http://www.tsinoy.com/article_item.php?articleid=662

Books:
The Last Half Century of overseas Chinese
Encyclopedia of overseas Chinese

I think the hardest part would probably be getting the data on Chinese immigrations stats to different countries to form an infographic piece on the history/wave of immigrations. Another piece of infographic will be the users/people’s data. I’m thinking on how I can present those data that allows the user to filter the all data and have control over what type of data shown. Jonathan Harris’ site “we feel fine” is a good example of filtering.

Sites that I can draw inspirations on in terms of content/storytelling:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4516989

http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=detail&oid=7

http://storycorps.org/