Alana Maisel







The Environment and Wildlife of the New York Post

Programming for Cultural Heritage, Fall 2025

A web-scraped dataset and AI model exploring over 2,400 articles from The New York Post's Environment and Wildlife sections, spanning 2013 to 2025. This project examines how sensationalist media shapes narratives around environmental issues and wildlife coverage.

An experimental AI model trained on this dataset generates fictional headlines that parody the paper's editorial style, offering a creative lens for examining narrative construction and algorithmic content consumption in contemporary media.

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What's on my Chatelaine?

Museum Information Management, Spring 2025

A digital collection exploring Victorian-era chatelaines—decorative waist chains that held keys, sewing tools, perfume bottles, and personal objects. The term originates from medieval France, describing the mistress of a household who carried castle keys, and evolved into an emblem of women's domestic power and responsibility.

This Omeka S collection catalogs chatelaines by culture, material, and implements, revealing their variability and storytelling potential. The project addresses a gap in digital museum collections, where few institutions maintain substantial chatelaine holdings despite their rich connection to women's labor, class expression, craft traditions, and early consumerism.

What's on my Chatelaine project screenshot