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Leaving a Digital Footprint: Hashtag Activism
It has been about five years since the BlackLivesMatter hashtag movement was created in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman. In a matter of five years, #BlackLivesMatter has become an archetypal example of modern social and political protest on digital media. A recent Pew Research Center Analysis has found that hashtags […]
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GC Digital Research Institute
Recently GC Digital Initiatives hosted a four-day research institute in room 4102 at The Graduate Center. The workshops covered the basics of command line, git, Python, and databases. They also included electives such as text analysis, geospatial mapping, web development with html and css, quantitative machine learning, APIs and twitterbots, and digital research ethics. The […]
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How to Live Without Gadgets?
The struggles of living without the charms of civilization and some of the modern gadgets which we have become accustomed to are likely to hurt us most especially if we are also accustomed to playing games on our cell phones. However, life without gadgets existed in the past and there is no reason why we […]
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Some Reflections on HASTAC 2017: The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities
This is a long long overdue post… Having the HASTAC and ASA conferences back-to-back weekends this year was more than a little chaotic, but it also meant that I had a chance to be part of a series of thoughtful, engaged conversations with people working on amazing and varied projects- on technology, critical university studies, […]
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When is Quantum not Quantum?
Lots of news recently about “Quantum Computing.” Here’s a good explanation of what it really means in current parlance from a slashdot commenter: “Quantum Computers are not super-computers. On a bit-for-bit (or qubit-for-qubit) scale, they’re not necessarily faster than regular computers, they just process info differently.” http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2697217&cid=39185143
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Great News from Orlando: HASTAC 2017 Is On. Register Now!
Dear HASTAC Friends, We have excellent news to communicate regarding the HASTAC 2017 Conference: “The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities” in Orlando, FL. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the local organizing committee at the University of Central Florida and the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, we have found an alternative venue and alternative accommodations for […]
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HASTAC 2017 – Post Hurricane Update: Orlando Conference Venue
Dear Friends, The HASTAC Conference team in Orlando has asked us to alert you that the Marriott was badly damaged in Hurricane Irma. Thank you for your patience while they work to find alternative venues and hotels for the HASTAC Conference (Nov 3-4, with Scholars UnConference and Steering Committee Nov 2). They are also working on […]
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Plant Bot for Project BudBurst
Plant Bot Here is the link to the existing project: https://scistarter.com/project/41-Project-BudBurst http://budburst.org/getstarted The citizen science project that we chose to adapt was the Project Budburst. The goal of this project is for citizens to observe plants and submit their data in order to help scientists with their goal of understanding how plants respond to climate […]
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7 Billion Ideas
For my crowdsourcing project I chose the project 7 Billion Ideas, found here. A little about this project, “7billionideas exists to connect the 7 billion people on this planet with their own ideas, whether they are students, employees or entrepreneurs.”. I figured, I have had an idea sometime in my lifetime, I can contribute! Of […]
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Database & Digital Archive
The digital humanities bring up many questions that we seek answers to. In her article “Archives in Context and as Context”, Kate Theimer says that exploring digital humanities “is best compared, I think, to being a tourist in a foreign country for which there are no reliable guidebooks.” Because digital humanities is a new field, it […]