This article narrates how teams of computer scientists used machine learning to identify the individuals behind the viral QAnon conspiracy theory. The article describes how researchers used software that broke down the QAnon messages into sequences and then recurrence of these sequences in social media posts. Read more: Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find …
Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants (PDIGs) are an excellent way to fund your work. Each year with generous support from the Provost’s Office, GC Digital Initiatives offers grants to PhD students in order to bolster their use of emerging technologies in the pursuit of their academic research goals. But what are these awards really for? Who wins …
Welcome back, scholars! The GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI) is here to help you! As you start the semester, we invite you to consider the plentiful resources available to help you expand, organize, present, and publish your research. This post offers a digest of the #digitalgc— read on for just a few of the ways you …
The GC Digital Initiatives End-of-Year Showcase, which will feature presentations from different members of our Digital GC community, will be held Wednesday, May 17th from 4:15 to 6:15 p.m. in the Martin E. Segal Theatre with a reception to follow in room 3317. The program includes presentations by The Digital Praxis Seminar Class The Digital Praxis …
GC Digital Initiatives and CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative invites you to: “CUNY DHI 2016: Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York.” Monday, November 7th, 6:00-8:30pm Ninth Floor Breakout Rooms, Rooms 9204/9205/9206/9207 The Graduate Center, CUNY We are pleased to announce the second annual CUNY DHI event, which features lightning talks …
Call for Proposals: Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants 2016-2017 Deadline: 5:00 PM on Thursday, October 20, 2016 The Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants, part of GC Digital Initiatives, provide financial support to doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center as they design, plan, program, develop, and grow digital research projects that make a clear contribution to the …
Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants Deadline: April 20, 2016 The Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants, part of GC Digital Initiatives, provide financial support to doctoral students at the CUNY Graduate Center as they design, plan, program, develop, or grow digital research projects that make a clear contribution to the GC’s digital research culture. Given the GC Digital …
The Digital GC: 2014-2015 Year-End Showcase Please join us on May 19th 2015 for a special event at the Graduate Center showcasing the innovative and diverse digital projects initiated during the 2014-2015 academic year! Presentations will be given by: the Digital Praxis Seminar, the GC Digital Fellows, Provost’s Digital Innovation Grantees, the New Media Lab, …
Project Name: Lazuri Talking Child Stories Grantee: Peri Ozlem Yuksel-Sokmen Discipline: Psychology, Training Area Human Development Funding Cycle: 2014-2015 Project Status: In progress About the Project Lazuri Talking Child Stories illustrates a digital collection of two picture book stories for preschool children, developed in collaboration with Susan Wei (illustrator), Irfan Çağatay (editor), and native Lazuri voices (sound files in two Lazuri dialects …
Project Name: “Everything On Paper Will Be Used Against Me” – Quantifying Kissinger Grantee: Micki Kaufman Discipline: History Funding Cycle: 2014-2015 Project Status: In progress About the Project This project is a series of historical text analyses and data visualizations conducted on the DNSA (Digital National Security Archives)’s Kissinger ‘Memcons’ collection and ‘Telcons’ collection. After collecting the source documents and aggregating …
