Recently, I attended “Art for Alt Text and The Pedagogy of Description.” The workshop is part of Alt Text as Poetry, a project by Bojana Colklayt and Finnegan Shannon that …
Reflecting on Alt Text and its Ethics
Author: Silvia Rivera Alfaro
Silvia is a Central American creative thinker and digital enthusiast. At CUNY Graduate Center, she is a candidate in Hispanic sociolinguistics at the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) and completed the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate (ITP).
Before moving to the United States, Silvia obtained a bachelor’s Degree in Spanish Philology and a Master’s in Linguistics at the University of Costa Rica. She is one of the creators of Indisciplinadxs: Feminist Linguistics, an international community of scholars, professionals, and activists.
Doing humanidades digitales at CUNY
Humanidades Digitales is the Spanish name for Digital Humanities (DH). While this might be seen as a mere translation, for many of us it materializes our scholarship and everyday experience …
Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is the age marked by the substantial consequences that human activities have caused to the Earth system(the different natural processes and their interactions). What are some challenges of doing Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene?
Digital Women: Commemorating Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month and I want to bring that to the digital fellows’ blog. First, I want to say that when I mention women, I am including cis …
The smartwatch dilemma
I started to think about purchasing a smartwatch amid a strong need to improve my health. Could this tool keep health information that would help me understand how to improve …
Geochicas: beyond map making
In the last Digital Fellows’ post, Anna Corbett shared a wonderful post on Mapping and Its Discontents. Here I write shortly about Geochicas, an international trans-inclusive community of women that …
Opening our house, opening our lab!
On September 6th, friendly conversations about digital tools, methods, and opportunities at the GC lit up room 7414 at the GC. For the second time since remote learning started during …
WordPress: Thinking about the aesthetics
Now that we discuss the basics of creating content, I would like to dedicate a small section to the basics of the appearance of your website. The first thing to …
WordPress: How to create content
There are two main options for creating content on WordPress: pages and posts. Though they look similar, there is an important difference in whether the content is dynamic or static. …
What is WordPress?
Today websites have a central place in academic life. Many scholars create websites for research, the courses they teach, and their personal online identities. Thus, having some knowledge of how …
