Profile

Brooke Bryan

Website: http://www.whyherewhynow.org

Twitter handle: whyherenow

About:
I'm working on a hyper-local project that looks at community and place with an eye towards exploring real lived experience. That means I'm talking to families about why they live where they live, while showcasing their thoughts in a digital project that muddles the line between the public and the private sphere. It's an effort to explore a "perceptually bounded place"— the small town of Yellow Springs, Ohio. I am interested in notions of place and community, the phenomenology of everyday life, and the ethics of representation in the digital age. I'd like to find better ways to work with audio within content management systems, and I wouldn't at all mind working with thatcampers on a manifesto or white paper on digital projects for community engagement and documentation, written for an audience of community organizations that want to play in the digital humanities, but might not know where to start. When not thatcamping, I write for a weekly independent newspaper (Yellow Springs News) and consult on other community-based digital projects using oral history and new media documentary with youth and government. Also, I tend to record things.