https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/mgriffith/Recent content in Mgriffith on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USFri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-2/medianola-by-vicki-mayer-and-mike-griffith/Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-2/medianola-by-vicki-mayer-and-mike-griffith/<p>The primary objective of <a href="http://medianola.org/" title="MediaNOLA website">MediaNOLA</a> in the <a href="http://www.neh.gov/" title="National Endowment for the Humanities website">NEH</a> planning grant was to work towards creating a website that showed the invisible contributions of ordinary people, places, and practices in the creation of New Orleans culture and its representations. The website was to provide an alternative way to examine New Orleans’ culture solely through the lens of its exceptionalism in relation to the rest of the United States. The scholarly impetus motivating the project came from a series of stakeholders invested in three areas of overlapping interests: (1.) the preservation of materials related to local cultures and cultural production; (2.) the public dissemination of local cultural histories that illustrated broad senses of culture and its production; and (3.) the empowerment of ordinary residents as public historians.</p>