https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/04/oakland-perils-promises-hella-town
Aiden Fiaschetti
Oakland, California is significant to Jane Eyre (2011) because this is the place where the director Cary Joji Fukunaga was born. Fukunaga spent his early childhood in Oakland and spent the rest of his childhood moving around the Bay Area. Fukunaga has a Japanese-American background with his dad being from a Japanese family. I found this information on the website https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1560977/bio/ showing his background and what his upbringing was like in Oakland, California. This source is an example of platform as gatekeeper because the website controls how Cary Joji Fukunaga is portrayed and they get to chose what can and cannot be on the website. The people that made that page on the website are viewers of the movie Jane Eyre (2011), and the platform shaped how I found it because it was shown under biographies about the cast in the movie so they displayed it very well. Mapping Oakland, California on the map is significant because it visually connects Fukunaga to the place where his life began. Instead of his birthplace just being a small fact on the website the map makes Oakland, California stand out and part of the story to help readers understand the real world locations connected to Fukunaga. The website IMDb made his biography including where his birthplace is. Mapping this location on COVE makes visible a place a "gatekeeper" platform otherwise may bury. This is important because Oakland is just a small detail in his biography on the website so the COVE map brings more attention to the location to get more people to learn about this.