Social Media & Academia: Creating Digital Research Communities.

This workshop will introduce various aspects of social media as solutions or initiatives for creating communities around research.  We’ll explore how to use the CUNY Commons, WordPress, Twitter, Tumblr, and Google Groups to find or create online research communities across CUNY and other universities. Hosted by the GC Digital Fellows Andrew W. McKinney and Laura …

Occupy Data

Saturday, Feb 23rd (International Open Data Day), there will be event at the GC for Occupy Sandy data.  We'll digitize, sanitize and preprocess a data set that can be used …

Occupy Data Hackathon

The James Gallery @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Friday, March 1st and Saturday, March 2nd, is the Occupy Data Hackathon in the James Gallery.  There will Occupy Sandy and other data sets to work. All tech skill levels …

Theorizing the Web

JustPublics@365, The Graduate Center, ARC, OpenCUNY and the Department of Sociology are pleased to host Theorizing the Web 2013 (#TtW13) Conference, Saturday, March 2.  There will be a pre-conference meetup …

Poverty, YouTube and Representation

The James Gallery @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Poverty, YouTube and Representation: A Conversation Cheap and accessible digital technologies have changed how we tell stories and voice opinions in public, as well as who gets heard. Yet many …