Part I:
- The primary source for my project is located at https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/yorkcol-ebooks/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=1039308#. The content I will be using is that which gives historical context to the development of manga, such as those on pages 20-22, 24, 30, 32, 46, 51, 64, and 87-88.
- The narrative I will be exploring is how different historical events and periods in Japan shaped the manga that was being produced during that respective period.
- My target audience is anyone who is interested in Japanese history, popular culture, and especially manga. What I would like to convey to my audience is that manga is not just the entertainment medium that we think of today, but rather evolved from a medium that tried to address and influence social concerns.
- The example that most closely aligns with my project is “Unpinning History: Japanese Posters in the Age of Commercialism, Imperialism, and Modernism”. This project is related to my project in that it deals with explaining Japanese art as it relates to history.
- The Scalar elements that will be most beneficial to my project will be the media gallery and annotations.
Part II:
- For the most part, the websites consist mainly of records, graphics, maps, documents, and textual information. For the Colored Conventions Project site, the materials are laid out in a nonlinear fashion and we can access materials from several different starting points. For the Archeology of Reading site, the materials are much more linear and it seems to be only accessible from one starting point on the main page.
- For the CCP site, we interact with the content through the use of hyperlinks, which lead us to supporting materials, some of which we can interact with further, such as scrolling through maps, or catalogs of images. For the AOR site, we interact with the images of pages, which we can resize and we can also interact, through hyperlinks, with some of the annotations.
- The information on both sites serve to highlight very specific topics, and in so doing, can create broader interest in their respective topics, rather than simply catering to a niche audience.
- On the CCP site, I was interested in enlarging some of the documents from various exhibits, because they weren’t really legible at the scale that the pop-up window allowed. I couldn’t figure out how to make those images larger.
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Hi Daniel, I like the fact that you are using manga to show historical events of Japanese in part 1. This should be a very creative and informative piece. Yes, it can address some social concerns, and this seemed to be an interesting way of addressing social concerns. The example “Unpinning History” seems to be a good guideline to enhance your project. The scalar of media gallery and annotations is most fitting for this type of project. Part 2 which relates to Colored Convention Project and Archaeology Reading site hyperlinks seems to have a lot of information that will help with supporting materials can be a little difficult to navigate, however the information that it produces will be beneficial to your project. Good luck in making the enlargement of various exhibits this will be a rewarding task given that the ones you viewed through the pop-up window were not legible. I am looking forward to seeing the end result.