Contextualization

Any content on this website and all of the content on our current storyboard will be reviewed, edited and finalized through the counsel of our Humanities advisors and our production team.

The entire website will be checked for accessibility by the Open Educational Resource team at CUNY Guttman and edited to ensure compliance.

The left sidebar is the main navigation of the interactive documentary. From here, all of the pages and portals will be accessible, as well as links to social media and Cool Anthropology.

The top/header part of the webpage will have the title of the page navigated to and will include a progress bar.

Below the main content area might include social media feeds, invitations to participate in the pile sort or other interactive components of the website, or links to our partners and funders.

The bottom of the webpage will include copyright information.

The About Page will include information on the project, the funding and timeline, and our goals for the work, as well as a list of the production team and their bios/links to other works.

The Participate Page will be robust and include gamification of our research and methods — essentially, we will illustrate how you can get to 100% on the Shifting Stereotypes progress bar. The pile sort interview won’t externally link to another site (it currently leads to the prototype, actively being tested and used by invited professors across multiple universities).

Every portal will appear as a box with a graphic background illustrative of the term, the humanities related term in large bold text and the six word story in smaller text. When a user touches or rolls over the image, the definition of the term will appear. When users click, they will enter the portal. A list of portals will also be listed on the sidebar as well as in the mobile menu.

Each portal will have these elements:

  • 6 word story on portal entry
  • tweet-length definition — in this installation, the text is auto-fed, but the final product will edit the theme and will be coded to have the entire definition on each portal entry image rollover
  • voiceover narrative with link to Cool Anthropology Soundcloud account as well as the written copy
  • a fictional letter from one person written from the perspective of a marginalized community
  • one minute video of a spoken word piece over news/headline images
  • at least one infographic
  • a survey
  • annotated bibliography – anthropology
  • annotated bibliography – history