Media Mapper
Media Mapper is an open source mapping tool designed for
digital humanities projects using geospatial data,
created by Ennuri Jo at UPenn’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication.
Maps Built with Media Mapper
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Aqueous Earth Catalog
A collection of film and media texts featuring bodies of water, made to accompany Ennuri Jo’s research project Aqueous Image
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Rendering the Logistical Ocean: Media, Mapping, and the Politics of Maritime Visibility and Knowability
Created by Liang Wu (Cornell University). This media atlas catalogs investigative documentaries, essay films, experimental cinema, and other forms of multimedia that illuminate the largely hidden realities of maritime logistics and global supply chains.
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The Lost Electronic Markets
Created by Weilin Zhu (University of Virginia). Accompanying her research on computing history in China from the 1980s to the 2000s, this map traces key electronics hubs and computer markets that flourished in the early 2000s and rapidly declined over the following one to two decades.
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Printing Nasser | Water in Egypt
Created by Meklit Abebe, the mapper geospatially ties connections between Al-Kawākib (illustrated magazine) archives and Egypt's central waterbodies: the Aswan Dam and the Suez Canal.