Applications due: February 16, 2018 Based in the GC Digital Scholarship Lab, the GC Digital Fellows Program operates as an in-house think-and-do tank for digital projects, connecting Fellows to digital initiatives throughout The Graduate Center. GC Digital Fellows utilize a team-based approach as they explore creative solutions for projects that can be implemented in a …
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Join our team! Call for Applications – GC Digital Fellow

Call for Applications – GC Digital Fellow Based in the GC Digital Scholarship Lab, the GC Digital Fellows Program operates as an in-house think-and-do tank for digital projects, connecting Fellows to digital initiatives throughout The Graduate Center. The GC Digital Fellows utilize a team-based approach as they explore creative solutions for collaboratively developing and implementing projects …
Digital Forensics: A GC Student’s Success Story with the Help of the GC Library

Kelsey Chatlosh: As the variety of digital technologies continue to expand and advance, more and more digital objects become obsolete when using contemporary hardware or software. For researchers, this may arise as a roadblock to accessing data saved in an older digital form, such as floppy discs, older CDs, or VHS tapes. Many of us …
Welcome back from the Digital Fellows!

Welcome back, scholars! The GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI) is here to help you! As you start the semester, we invite you to consider the plentiful resources available to help you expand, organize, present, and publish your research. This post offers a digest of the #digitalgc— read on for just a few of the ways you …
The Digital GC: 2016-2017 Year-End Showcase

The GC Digital Initiatives End-of-Year Showcase, which will feature presentations from different members of our Digital GC community, will be held Wednesday, May 17th from 4:15 to 6:15 p.m. in the Martin E. Segal Theatre with a reception to follow in room 3317. The program includes presentations by The Digital Praxis Seminar Class The Digital Praxis …
Exploring the local impact of the NEH – NEH Impact Index | GC Digital Fellows

Graduate Center Digital Initiatives is proud to share the NEH Impact Index. Recent budget proposals by the Trump administration have allocated zero funding to a number of independent federal agencies concerned with education, democracy, cultural preservation, and public-facing scholarship. Among them are the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Endowment for the Arts …
Visualizing NEH Open Data | GC Digital Fellows

NEH Open Data Shortly after the Trump administration announced its budget, the GC Digital Fellows dove into the Open Data from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to see what we could learn about what has been funded and what sort of projects would no longer receive funding. With a hope to share the rapid forays …
Call for Papers: Activism and the Intersectional Internet: Power and Resistance (Submission Deadline: Friday, April 14)

A half-day symposium hosted by the GC Digital Fellows May 17, 2017, The Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submissions: Friday, April 14th, 2017 The GC Digital Fellows invite submissions for inclusion in a half-day symposium on digital activism that brings together designers, software developers, community organizers and …
Doc-a-thon for better docs!

Doc-a-thon March 6th, 5:00-10:00 PM Room 3317 The Digital Fellows, part of the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center, CUNY, will be hosting a Doc-a-thon to generate better docs! When learning a new software tool, programming language or library, we all go straight to the tutorials and other documentation. As the first point …
First Meeting of Text Analysis Working Group, 12/9
The GC Digital Projects Working Groups are happy to announce the first meeting of the Text Analysis Working Group! The Text Analysis Working Group is designed to bring together people who would like to focus on tools and techniques that can be used to analyze text, and provides space for more theoretical discussions on how …