{"id":457,"date":"2016-06-24T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T00:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/?p=457"},"modified":"2016-06-30T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:07:13","slug":"mapping-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/week-5\/mapping-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s discussion about time really threw me for a loop. While the group was discussing timelines and how they display time, I was having an existential crisis. Time is a very tricky thing, a man made invention. Everyone perceives time differently, so how can you use a digital tool to show the different perceptions\u00a0time? The western world conceptualizes time as a straight line. I have been reading the book <em>Outlander<\/em>\u00a0which is about a WWII combat nurse who travels back in time to 1746. If you make a straight timeline of her life, it wouldn\u2019t make any sense. To complicate this issue of the straight line, imagine what the Doctor&#8217;s timeline from\u00a0<em>Doctor Who<\/em> would look like. Most of the digital timelines we have looked at are linear. Is there a way to create a time mapping tool that isn\u2019t a line and doesn\u2019t utilize a\u00a0western perception of time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s discussion about time really threw me for a loop. While the group was discussing timelines and how they display time, I was having an existential crisis. Time is a very tricky thing, a man made invention. Everyone perceives time differently, so how can you use a digital tool to show the different perceptions\u00a0time? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/week-5\/mapping-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mapping Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}