When proceeding with a digital project, it seems that a lot of emphasis is generally placed on learning the ins and outs of using the tool or method. Certainly, this …
Category: Reflections
Learning Python with the Python Users’ Group
The demand for Python has increased in recent years, and many new students at GC are eager to learn it. However, many soon give up, including smart, successful scholars. Why …
Toward the End of a Digital Project: Reflections on Starting Over
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 …
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, …
