Site Changelog

The machine ships constantly. This page is the public record of what's changed — newest first.

2026

October

2026-10-05 — Added Contribute & Volunteer, Site Changelog (this page), and Accessibility Statement pages.
2026-10-05 — Added Start Here and Photo Licensing & Reuse pages; added a "New here? Start here" link to the homepage.
2026-10-05 — Renamed the Sound Award to The Clear Ear Award across the site.
2026-10 — Homepage title changed to "CultureTechLens · Culture, Clearly Seen." (brand-first).
2026-10 — Entity archive expanded from 965 to 1,441 pages; the knowledge graph fully browsable.
2026-10 — Fixed VideoObject schema (upload dates and descriptions) on the October Artifacts Index edition page.

September

2026-09-30 — Published Methodology (condensed Methodology v1.0).
2026-09-28 — Published the first CTL 10 edition: Artifacts, deposited to Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23081630).
2026-09-28 — Public launch of culturetechlens.com.

Earlier history is approximate where records are thin; the log tightens from October 2026 forward.

Cite as: CultureTechLens, "Site Changelog," 2026-10-05.

Source: CultureTechLens

From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Crowd outside of fashionable Negro church after Easter Sunday service, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Trust & evidence

Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.

Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — none to date.