This issue is probably more common than I think. Over the past year I’ve been working on an ambitious digital project: to modify a digital annotation tool, hypothes.is, so that …
Toward the End of a Digital Project: Reflections on Starting Over
Category: Reflections
Transforming TEI for the Web
Last month, I led a workshop for the GC Digital Initiatives on “Getting Started with TEI.” For those who don’t know, TEI (short for Text Encoding Initiative) is a method …
Community Wireless Networks Address Missed Connections: “Access” as Digital Insurgency (Pt. 2)
Introduction This is Part 2 of a two-part blog post series exploring the efforts of 3 urban-based community wireless networks (CWNs) – NYC Mesh, Equitable Internet Initiative (Detroit), and PeoplesOpen.net …
Community Wireless Networks Address Missed Connections: Expanded Notions of “Access” (Pt. 1)
Introduction to 2 Part Series: As of June 2017, about one quarter of the US population did not have access to broadband internet. This includes 16 million or 28% of …
A Conceptual Guide to Digital Academic Identity
In November of 2015, shortly after beginning my career as a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, I received an email from Victor Papa, president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood …
Uses of tech while drafting my second exam bibs: taxonomies and track changes
Kelsey’s image: A photo of the GC anthropology program’s bookshelf in the lounge, while the books were still organized according not to author or topic but color. Impractical, yes, but …
A Reflection on the Mediation and Intimacy of Sounds: Searching for Collective Pleasure through Group ASMR
This is a guest post by Michelle Yom, a musicology Ph.D. student at the GC, a participant in the 2017-2018 GCDI Sound Series, and a member of the Sound Studies …
I Forced a Bot to Read 1,000 of My Blog Posts, Then Asked It to Write Its Own.
There’s this meme that’s been going around the internet for a little while now. The format of the meme is “I forced a bot to watch X amount of Y, …
Audio Annotation with Praat and Python: Reflections on a workshop
Last night, as our final GCDI Sound Series workshop of the semester, I taught a new workshop: Audio Annotation with Praat and Python. And when I say “new”, I mean …
Which digital tool should I use?
It can sometimes be overwhelming to decide which of the legions of digital tools out there are good for any given task, especially when you haven’t yet built expertise in …
