Framing Research for Public Audiences

Instructor: Deb Stead, J-School. Lecture with hands-on exercises on framing research to resonate with diverse audiences: talking points, headlines, Interviews, op-eds. Click here to register. Instructor: Deborah Stead, CUNY J-School, a journalist with twenty-five years’ experience, was an editor at the New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Oxygen Media. Her reporting included work overseas, chiefly in …

Big Media for Academics

Instructors: Fred Kaufman and Susan Farkas, J-School. A hands-on workshop involving technique and some examples of on-camera interviews from the faculty learners who are involved in the session. Click here to register.   Instructors: Susan Farkas spent seven years as chief of radio and television at the United Nations, and served NBC news for seventeen …

Social Media for Research Impact

Instructor: Dr. Joan Greenbaum. The theory of social media for academics. Why might academics want to bother mastering social media? How can the impact of research be extended through social media? Conceptual, theoretic. Click here to register. Instructors: Dr. Joan Greenbaum programmed one of the first computers, the IBM 650, in binary code. Diving into …

Social Media for Academics: (Level: Intro/intermediate)

Instructor: Sandeep Junnarkar.  This is a hands-on workshop for academics interested in taking the social media plunge. Instructors will cover setting up a WordPress blog and some basics of using Twitter. Click here to register.   Instructor: Sandeep Junnarkar, former New York bureau chief of CNET News.com, helped to create online editions of the New …

Beyond Bullet Points for Academics

3 hours, 1-4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, Instructor: Laura Norén. Participants create visually compelling slide decks for academic research presentations that retain intellectual sophistication. Click here to register.   Instructor: Laura Norén is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at New York University doing research at the intersection of technologies for creative work and small group …

DH 2013: Tools and Methods – in-class workshops

MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …

DH 2013: Tools and Methods – in-class workshops

MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …

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 …

DH 2013: Tools and Methods – in-class workshops

MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …