The thought-provoking article from Wired discusses the translucent design of older video game consoles to provide an insight into gaming culture. Translucency allowed intrepid gamers to look inside their consoles, which enabled a culture of creative console modification and repair. The author notes that current generation consoles have sharply diverged from the aesthetics of translucency …
In the extremely informative and helpful blog post, GC Digital Fellow Di Yoong provides an introductory overview of audio editing with Audacity. Yoong covers importing, cleaning and editing, fading in and out, as well as mixing and exporting. Read more: Basic Audio Editing with Audacity – GC Digital Fellows
This article from The New Yorker reports on the experiences of people who have used brain implants to treat epilepsy. It paints a fascinating narrative of the ways in which these technologies can shape people’s understanding of themselves and their relationship to the world. The author also raises significant doubts surrounding brain implant technology, whose …
In this helpful blog post GC Digital Fellow Connor French walks us through the conceptual and technical dimensions of sonification and data communication. French helps us understand how data can be rendered into sound as well as see the implications of communicating data in this manner. As French puts it, “audio has multiple dimensions that …
In this helpful post on Tagging the Tower, GC Digital Fellow Param Ajmera provides an introductory overview of AntConc, a freeware text analysis tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Ajmera discusses what AntConc does and how it might be useful. He also directs readers towards additional resources that further explain AntConc’s nuts and bolts. Read …
In this helpful blog post, GC Digital Fellow Rafael Davis Portela teaches intermediate users of Python how to explore data using Pandas. Portella goes over data frames, slicing data, and downloading data using Pandas. Read more on the Tagging the Tower blog: Exploring Data with Python and Pandas – GC Digital Fellows
How might intersectional feminism inform machine learning algorithms? This post explores this question by drawing attention to the Feminist Data Set art project. This fascinating project brings together theories of social justice, feminism, data science, and design, in order to provide critical insight into every step of the AI development project. Read more about the Feminist Data …
In this extremely resourceful blog post, GC Digital Fellow Stefano Morello discusses the pros and cons of a variety of website creation and digital archiving platforms available today. If you’re looking to create a website and/or a digital archive, then this blog post is will help you learn how to assess the many platforms that …
In this fascinating blog post, Jesse McCormack (GCDI Coordinator and Philosophy PhD Candidate) reflects on her experience as a participant in the GC Digital Research Institute 2021. McCormack discusses the opportunities and outcomes of the Institute, as well as reflects on the importance of communication – between people and machines – when learning foundational computational …
Deadline: April 6, 2021 at 11:59 PM EST Are you looking for a fellowship that will challenge you to enhance your existing technical skills? Do you enjoy working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team? Do you like working with students, faculty, and staff to help them learn new digital tools and methods? If learning new open …
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