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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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  • Feminism, Horror Games, and Data Visualization: A Pretty Terrifying Project!

    Posted by Truly Johnson (they/them) on May 16, 2026 at 7:56 pm

    The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, the semester is coming to a close. It’s spring, the perfect time for…

    Horror!

    To anyone who attended the GC Digital Showcase yesterday, you may have already gotten a little bit spooked by A Pretty Terrifying Project: Examining Feminist Theme Co-Occurrences

    Across Horror Video Games. This project – created by Naila Butt, Michael Nieves, and myself – takes a look at how feminist topics – including motherhood, violence, and trauma – overlap. We look at how these themes are distributed across different games via various data visualizations, as well as picking out a few examples to analyze how these ideas play out in particular games. Finally, the last part of our website allows users to explore the dataset themselves by mixing and matching categories to see what games in the dataset match.

    We hope this can be a useful educational tool and a jumping-off point to explore a lesser studied area of the intersection between horror and gaming. Click here to take a look: https://a-pretty-terrifying-project.github.io/feminist-horror-co-occurences.

    If you’ve got any questions or comments, or are interested in getting involved in this project, feel free to reply to this topic and let us know your thoughts!

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