APRIL 30TH

This week in class, we had the pleasure of hearing from guest lecturer Stephen Klein, who walked us through key concepts in web archiving. His insight helped us better understand the long-term value of preserving digital history, especially relevant to our project as we are finalizing everything and thinking about the future of GDPW.

Project Progress:
Madison finalized our data visualizations with support from Elijah, and they have now been uploaded to our WordPress site. Cathy and Martin worked on refining and updating our final presentation materials, ensuring the deck is clean, coherent, and reflective of our group’s progress, objectives, and each member’s contributions.

What’s Next:
Martin explained that future contributions to our website will include short narratives celebrating a specific community’s history and presence in professional wrestling.
Possible themes include:
– Black wrestlers and Black History Month
– Hispanic/Latinx Heritage
– Japan and Asia’s broader influence on wrestling
– LGBTQ+ representation
– Women’s History Month

These community spotlights will help us highlight professional wrestling as a space where identity, performance, and representation intersect.

Elijah is working on integrating Zotero into the site to improve how we display and organize our references and sources. He is also constantly refining and updating the website, to help bring it to culmination. Madison will provide front-end/UX support, to help polish the website. We’re also beginning to think about our personal final reflections. For our Final/White group Paper, everyone has been assigned three pages to do. Martin communicated that we will discuss the group paper more thoroughly after next week’s presentation. He is now preparing to individually lead an early run of our presentation on Monday.

Check out our progress so far on the official project website: https://gdprowres.com/