Though technical skills and and scientific expertise are obviously fundamental to scientific research, their effects can only be as strong as the community in which they circulate.
Category: Reflections
Beyond the Same Old Static Course Website
The possibilities for using the web for structuring a course extend well beyond the unidirectional model of the online syllabus or the semi-multidirectional model that includes student interactions in forums or blog posts.
The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase
The Digital GC: 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 …
Digital Dissertations and Ticking Clocks
Nothing quite embodies the graduate education experience like a dissertation. But Stacey Patton’s 2013 CHE article “The Dissertation Can No Longer Be Defended,” responds to the job market crisis with an …
Tabless Thursday
We have Meatless Mondays, Taco Tuesdays, and now we have a digital diet day: Tabless Thursday. Dr. James Hamblin at The Atlantic makes a compelling argument for why we should single …
User versus subject: a critique of word processing software
If you could design, from start to finish, the software you use to compose your writing, what would it look like? For many, word processing software is precisely what one …
Making It Visual
My first major project as a Digital Fellow will be to work with a very impressive team to make interactive visualization/ map of the impact of the Graduate Center on …
No Room For Digital Humanities in Philosophy?
Throughout my tenure as a Digital Fellow, I have struggled to relate the projects I’ve been working on and the tools and skills I have been learning to my philosophical pursuits. This …
Announcing “Digital Dissertations Resources”
The GC Digital Fellows are happy to announce a new resource for students who are interested in creating a digital dissertation (and the committee members and academic departments who support …
DH Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital Humanities
The first in a series of posts in which I set out to provide a short review of several different aspects of the digital humanities from a non-digital humanist perspective, with the mindset or culture of DH being just the beginning.
