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New Media Lab

THE NEW MEDIA LAB (NML) assists City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center faculty and doctoral students from a variety of academic disciplines to create multimedia projects based on their own scholarly research. Our goal is to integrate new media into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology. The NML is committed to a vision of new technology based on open access to ideas, tools, and resources.

With ongoing support from CUNY, the New Media Lab has become a dynamic environment in which projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Old York Library Foundation, and other private and public sources demonstrate new approaches and methods of merging digital media, scholarship, and learning.

Located in room 7388.01 at the CUNY Graduate Center and run under the auspices of the Center for Media and Learning / American Social History Project, NML researchers:

work across academic disciplines to produce scholarly digital media projects;

analyze Internet usage in the educational, social, and commercial sectors;

construct 3-D environments that explore ways of visualizing the arts, humanities, and sciences

digitally archive and analyze a wide range of data
participate in public programs that address the critical intersection of knowledge and technology

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  • Building a Usable History: Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement

    Posted by Jessica Murray (she///her) on September 12, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    Please join us this Wednesday, September 14 from 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM in Room C197 for a panel discussion on the creation of usable online histories.

    The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (http://rosaparksbiography.org) is an educational website that tells the story of Parks’ lifelong work as a political activist—particularly around criminal (in)justice—before and after her historic refusal to give up her seat on the bus. Responding to the ubiquity of online resources that perpetuate the reductionist history of Parks, site creators Jeanne Theoharis, Jessica Murray, and Say Burgin set out to create an alternate online historical record, complete with print and audiovisual materials. The site incorporates sources from Parks’ personal papers, interactive maps developed through other educational websites, and photographs.

    Using the site as a springboard for discussion, this panel will focus on developing strategies for making substantive public histories of the civil rights movement more accessible to youth leaders, educators, and the general public. Along the way, panelists will discuss the creation of the site’s content, the process of collaborating on a digital humanities project, and practical concerns such as selecting a platform, sourcing copyrighted images, and incorporating feedback from students, educators, and other site users.

    This event is presented as part of Narrating Change, Changing Narratives, an interdisciplinary research group that employs public humanities practices and explores narration as a guide for social change. The group is supported by the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research. For more information or to join, email ch@gc.cuny.edu.

    Cosponsored by the Narrating Change, Changing Narratives Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research; and The Futures Initiative.

    http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/building-a-usable-history-rosa-parks-and-the-civil-rights-movement

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