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Category: News
GCDI is going on Winter Break – See you in Spring 2021!
The GCDI will be going on winter hiatus beginning December 21, 2020. We look forward to coming back online when the Spring semester begins on January 29, 2021. The GCDI’s calendar and the news page will be updated when the Spring semester begins with more information regarding our working group meetings, workshop series, and other …
GIS at Scale with Google Earth Engine
In this blog post GC Digital Fellow Connor French teaches you how to add “some extra oomph” to your GIS project. Connor discusses different datasets as well as analytical tools available through the Google Earth Engine, which can help take your mapping project to the next level. Read more: GIS at Scale with Google Earth …
Thinking with Sound: Starting a Podcast Project
In this blog post GC Digital Fellow Di Yoong discusses ways of getting your Sound Studies project off the ground by focusing on how to make a podcast. What is the difference between a podcast and an interview? How do you use sound techniques to create an audio narrative? This blog post addresses these questions …
Apply for the GC Digital Research Institute 2021
The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI) Workshop Series Six sessions over 5 weeks – January 29 – February 27, 2021 Application due: December 7th, 11:59pm Are you interested in using digital tools in your research, but don’t know where to start? Do you want to learn more about digital technologies in a supportive group of …
Developing Communities of Practice through Digital Pedagogy
On December 3, 2020 GC Digital Initiatives collaborated with a group of professors from City College as part of a panel for the CUNY IT Conference. Our panel’s topic was “Developing Communities of Practice through Digital Pedagogy” and we had a wide ranging discussion on the challenges of teaching online as well as productive ways …
Apply by 12/4 to be part of this year’s Data for Public Good cohort
Call for Participation The Data for Public Good Project in partnership with the COVID Tracking Project 2020-2021 Applications due by 5:00 PM EST on Friday, December 4, 2020. For the third year, GC Digital Initiatives and the Mina Rees Library are accepting applications from Graduate Center students who have achieved an introductory fluency with …
Mapping the Effects of COVID-19 – GC Digital Fellows
In this informative post, GC Digital Fellow Olivia Ildefonso discusses the GIS /Mapping Working Group’s project to assess the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on vulnerable communities in New York and strategize what could be done about it. Olivia discusses a variety of initiatives that took off under this initiative such as COVID and Cages, which studied …
The Dictatorship of Data
Robert McNamara is remembered as JFK’s and LBJ’s secretary of defense, who was a primary motivator in escalating the Vietnam War. What is less known about McNamara–as discussed in this recent MIT Technology Review article– is that he was obsessed with accumulating data for any objective that he undertook. While ordinarily we would think this …
Body Language
In this thought provoking article from The Baffler, Sanjana Varghese discusses the dangers of biometric surveillance beyond facial recognition. Whereas facial recognition has rightfully occupied a lot of attention for its racist biases and its authoritarian overreach, Varghese points towards other similar technologies that also deserve public critique. Varghese discusses emotion recognition, gait recognition, earprint …
