Sunday, March 21, 2010

Visualizing Culture and Those Who Are Different From a Communication Perspective

For my paper, I focused on Visualizing Culture and Those Who Are Different From a Communication Perspective. While writing my paper, I came across a really interesting project/application from National Geographic called The Genographic Project. The Atlas of the Human Journey section shows how cultures have spread. This might be interesting for those interested in tracing their ancestry. Hope everyone finds this as interesting as I did.

2 comments:

Laila Fares said...

Thanks for sharing this Jen, I really enjoyed exploring this!

arturo said...

The project is amazing, and so are all the programs around it. Very Tufte approved!:-)

There is a link to Order a Kit to participate in this enormous project. For roughly a 100 dol. they will trace the anthropological story of your direct maternal or paternal ancestors—where they lived and how they migrated around the world many thousands of years ago.

In addition to the kit you get many additional components and the price also includes the cost of the testing and analysis—an expensive process—that will take place once your sample is sent in.

This is another example of the speed at which technology advances in every field and the convergence that is taking place.