Thank you for making the 2025 CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks a big success! The event saw twenty presenters from six CUNY campuses share a wide range of exciting …
2025 CUNY DHI Lightning Talks In Review
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Digital Humanities at the Lesbian Lives Conference
Last month, the Graduate Center hosted the Lesbian Lives conference, an international gathering of academics, filmmakers, artists, and activists to share, discuss, and celebrate lesbian history and culture. Organized by …
How AI Is Changing What It Means to Learn
When I analyzed how low-skill freelancers were using large language models (LLMs) on online labor platforms, I expected to see a story of empowerment: one where technology leveled the playing …
The Walled Garden: Care and Containment in AI Research
Introduction: On the Ethics of Boundaries AI, especially in research, is often imagined as an infinite horizon, with models expanding endlessly, datasets merging across domains, and knowledge networks collapsing boundaries …
Human in the Loop: Interpretive and Participatory AI in Research
Across every field I know, including urban studies, environmental science, design, and social research, the presence or question of AI and its possibilities or challenges has become unavoidable. We seem …
Maps for Multi-Sensorial Learning
In one of my seminar classes last week, a peer made a passing critique of cartographic methods, commenting that cartographers have a bias toward visuality over other modes of interfacing …
Welcome to Fall ’25!
The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows are excited to welcome you all back to a new semester! Below you will find resources, workshops, and opportunities we …
Reflections on the inaugural “Conversations in Digital Scholarship”
This post is collectively written by the GCDI fellows: Tuka Al-Sahlani, Silvia Rivera Alfaro, Parisa Setayesh, Maggie Schreiner, Anna Corbett , Zachary Lloyd, Cen Liu, Maura McCreight, Cortnie Belser, Peyton …
Finding Tools for Queer “Illder” Activist History at the Digital Research Institute
This post is written by guest contributor JD Davids, Winter 2025 DRI Participant. Connect with JD Davids on BlueSky: @crankyqueer.org; LinkedIn: @JD Davids; and Instagram @thecrankyqueer There’s so much …
Reordering Graphs in ggplot Plot: A Step-by-Step Guide
When we create a plot using ggplot() in R, the order of the categories on the x-axis is set by default. However, for better clarity and aesthetics, we often want to …
