In the last Digital Fellows’ post, Anna Corbett shared a wonderful post on Mapping and Its Discontents. Here I write shortly about Geochicas, an international trans-inclusive community of women that …
Category: Tagging the Tower
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Mapping and its Discontents – Denaturalizing the Map in Cartographic History Part 1
Maps are an incredibly useful tool. They allow us to both analyze and communicate our research, and help us easily decide between (and then change) the various qualities, behaviors, attributes, …
Creating Visual Novels with Python and Ren’Py
Visual Novels (VN) are an increasingly popular form of interactive fiction, now often hitting the tops of the Steam (computer game marketplace) charts in sales. To deliver their story, visual …
Death of a Project
Hello, I’m Leanne and I’m a recalcitrant ITP (Interactive Technology Pedagogy) student and these are my stories… One of the programs I was most excited for, coming to the GC, …
Building Your First Database in SQL – GC Digital Fellows
Building Your First Database in SQL Creating a database is a fundamental skill for most social science and humanities researchers, and PostgreSQL is an excellent choice to get started with …
The GCDI Guide to Password Management – GC Digital Fellows
The GCDI Guide to Password Management Graduate Center students! Don’t sleep on the absurd number of usernames and passwords you will be required to remember! Think you can just keep …
Opening our house, opening our lab!
On September 6th, friendly conversations about digital tools, methods, and opportunities at the GC lit up room 7414 at the GC. For the second time since remote learning started during …
GCDI Welcomes You Back!
Welcome back for the fall semester! The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows have been hard at work developing programming, events, workshops, and opportunities to help you …
Recap: Dissertation Futures
Last March, with support from the Publics Lab and the English program, we held an online roundtable discussion, Dissertation Futures. Led by Drs. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Marisa Parham, Kay Sohini, and …
Attending the DRI is like Savoring a Multi-Course Coding Meal
By Maren Rothfritz As someone who always thought that anything related to computing languages was beyond my grasp, I now find myself fascinated by digital research tools and I really …
