A project by Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur, and Lev Manovich, On Broadway is an urban data visualization project “On Broadway” that represents 13 miles of Broadway using images and data from Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Street View, the US …
Category: Faculty Projects
Mapping Occupation: The Union Army and the Meaning of Reconstruction
History Professor Gregory Downs (CCNY/GC) has just won a prestigious digital innovation fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for his project “Mapping Occupation: The Union Army and the Meaning …
Matthew K. Gold – Debates in Digital Humanities
“Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promises to transform …
Welfare Rights Initiative: Digital Oral History Project
Cynthia Tobar, Metadata Librarian at the Mina Rees Library, recently launched the Welfare Rights Initiative: Digital Oral History Project The WRI Digital Oral History Project, via an open source digital …
What They Saved
Distinguished Professor Nancy K. Miller (Comp Lit, English, French) reconstructs her family’s missing past from artifacts passed down to her. Locks of hair, postcards, receipts, letters written in Yiddish are …
Children Framing Childhoods
Wendy Luttrell, Professor of Urban Education and Social-Personality Psychology, investigates the ways young people participate in social structures in her visual ethnography project Children Framing Childhoods. She asks them to …
Spatiality Apps
Steve Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, takes mobile applications beyond the basic information retrieval done by a tourist visiting a city, in …