A week ago I had the chance to attend the workshop “So You Want to Create a Map? The Basics of GIS Mapping”, led by Javier Otero Peña and Kelsey Chatlost from the CUNY Digital Fellows. Since I would really like to take advantage of GIS software to create a digital project, I was really […]

Recently, I attended the “Introduction to iOS Programming” workshop, led by Jeremy March from the CUNY Digital Fellows. I must say that, before this event, I had no knowledge of iOS or Android applications at all, so I found this overview of the workflow regarding digital apps very useful. Besides, the resources provided by Jeremy […]

What I found relevant, in last weeks reading for our classes, is the relation established between space and humanities. At a first sight, indeed, and also basing my thoughts on what I previously learned and how I previously studied humanities, I was sure that space does not deal with humanities. I did not see a […]

Micki Kaufman, former class visitor and creator of Quantifying Kissinger recently hosted a data visualization workshop on October 31st where she not only showed how to set projects up in Gephi and Tableau, but also showed the power of smaller script GUIs for text analysis like AntConc and Mallet. Her initial project dealt with thousands of […]

“The Internet hates walled gardens,” Kathleen Fitzpatrick writes in the “Texts” chapter of Planned Obsolescence, and this reality highlights some of the failures of digital publishing to acknowledge and facilitate the communal readings of texts (117). Certain file formats—namely, PDF, EPUB, and Kindle—often encourage the reproduction of the look and feel of the print book […]

In Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s final section, she tackles the “unstable economic model” that university publishing operates under (155). The university press unfortunately is in a strange state of limbo where they operate for the university and are subsidized by the university, but also serve a purpose outside the university. She’s aware that this section of hers […]

While Joshua Miele’s 20 October lecture, “Digital Accessibility and the Making of the Meta Maker Movement,” centered on his efforts to teach physical computing and open-source hardware (Arduino) to non-sighted children, it was most compelling when challenged us to reframe our own approaches to accessibility itself. Our current digital culture, Miele argued, attempts to answer […]