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NYCDH Week Reflections.

  I attended two events offered through the Grad Center. One was an introduction to physical computing with Arduino Solo and the second was an introduction to GitHub. GitHub work struck me as the more complicated endeavor but that may be because it requires fiddling with network stuff. For example, setting up my own GitHub […]

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Spectrm – A Proposal

Hey yall. I want to include my proposal for everyone to read and consider. You can find it on GitHub by clicking here. Alternatively, read below.   Thanks!   Abstract: Collaborative projects – whether it’s building a website or designing a proposal – requires a variety of skills and contributions. While some contributions matter more […]

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Diary (02/19): The versatility of Digital Humanities

During the NYC Digital Week, I attended four different workshops, which offered me – one more time – the opportunity to touch the different potentiality offered by Digital Humanities tools. The first workshop I attended was “Sampling for the Digital Humanities”, offered on February 7th by Angus Grieve-Smith. Studies and researches into the Humanities can be very […]

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Revised Zine Union Catalog Proposal

Based on class discussion blog comments, I have revised this proposal. The primary changes are additional information on Collective Access (see the link in the appendix), an explanation of the different catalog types, thoughts on sustainability, and tweaking of language to emphasize points and to frame the project’s uniqueness more positively. Overview[1] For several years, […]

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Revised Proposal: Edit Swap

Posting original blog post, both edited and amended to include the system description in the “Proposed Approach” section, the “Environmental Scan” section, and the appendix.   What is It? An online editing platform where users request edits for their papers and edit other user’s papers with an incentivized currency system. As the digital age rapidly […]

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Evalutaion of our DH project proposals: an idea

During the last weeks, we have read and discussed a lot of different aspects concerning the evaluation of Digital Humanities project proposals: relevance and pertinence about specific academic disciplines or fields of study; collaboration; consulting with experts; and so on. From my point of view, there is one specific factor we should keep in strong […]

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NYCDH Week: Sensing Urban Noise

  For NYCDH Week, I attended Tae Hong Park’s Sensing Urban Noise presentation on his CityGram project in collaboration with IBM. The project was primarily focused on urban soundscapes and the importance of place. For Tae Hong Park, the importance of a space has to do with the fact that there are memories and emotional […]

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Journal 2/7: Why platforms make good projects

When I went to the lighting talks on the first day of NYCDH Week, most projects were of the platform and tool building variety. I was very impressed by these projects, but it was Professor Brier accepting his award and discussing his work quantifying coal strikes had such an immediate effect on me. Clearly, I […]

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DH Week Workshop: Design-Based Thinking for Humanists

I think I would have loved this workshop, if Niko hadn’t gotten involved. I signed up for Design-Based Thinking for Humanists for my DH Week workshop assignment. It appealed to me because I am not a designer, but having recently employed one at work, I’ve learned how magical what they do is. I’d like to be […]

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Project Proposal: ÑYC. Hispanic Culture in New York City

What It Is and Why It Happened An online platform that gathers, displays, and promotes events concerning Hispanic culture around the City of New York. There currently does not exist a digital platform where to find cultural activities related to Spanish-speaking countries and territories from both sides of the Atlantic. Of course, users can easily […]

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  • Welcome to Digital Praxis 2016-2017

    Encouraging students think about the impact advancements in digital technology have on the future of scholarship from the moment they enter the Graduate Center, the Digital Praxis Seminar is a year-long sequence of two three-credit courses that familiarize students with a variety of digital tools and methods through lectures offered by high-profile scholars and technologists, hands-on workshops, and collaborative projects. Students enrolled in the two-course sequence will complete their first year at the GC having been introduced to a broad range of ways to critically evaluate and incorporate digital technologies in their academic research and teaching. In addition, they will have explored a particular area of digital scholarship and/or pedagogy of interest to them, produced a digital project in collaboration with fellow students, and established a digital portfolio that can be used to display their work. The two connected three-credit courses will be offered during the Fall and Spring semesters as MALS classes for master’s students and Interdisciplinary Studies courses for doctoral students.

    The syllabus for the course can be found at cuny.is/dps17.

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