2025 CUNY DHI Lightning Talks In Review Thank you for making the 2025 CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks a big success! The event saw twenty presenters from six CUNY […]

Digital Humanities at the Lesbian Lives Conference Last month, the Graduate Center hosted the Lesbian Lives conference, an international gathering of academics, filmmakers, artists, and activists […]

How AI Is Changing What It Means to Learn When I analyzed how low-skill freelancers were using large language models (LLMs) on online labor platforms, I expected to see a story of […]

The Walled Garden: Care and Containment in AI Research Introduction: On the Ethics of Boundaries AI, especially in research, is often imagined as an infinite horizon, with models expanding […]

Human in the Loop: Interpretive and Participatory AI in Research Across every field I know, including urban studies, environmental science, design, and social research, the presence or question of AI and its […]

Maps for Multi-Sensorial Learning In one of my seminar classes last week, a peer made a passing critique of cartographic methods, commenting that cartographers have a bias toward […]

Welcome to Fall '25! The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows are excited to welcome you all back to a new semester! Below you will find […]

Reflections on the inaugural “Conversations in Digital Scholarship” This post is collectively written by the GCDI fellows: Tuka Al-Sahlani, Silvia Rivera Alfaro, Parisa Setayesh, Maggie Schreiner, Anna Corbett , […]

Finding Tools for Queer “Illder” Activist History at the Digital Research Institute   This post is written by guest contributor JD Davids, Winter 2025 DRI Participant. Connect with JD Davids on BlueSky: @crankyqueer.org; […]

Reordering Graphs in ggplot Plot: A Step-by-Step Guide When we create a plot using ggplot() in R, the order of the categories on the x-axis is set by default. However, for better clarity and […]

The Social Elsewhere: A Look at Alt-Social Media Over the past few years, internet users have expressed growing distrust and distaste toward dominant corporate social media sites like Facebook, […]

Reflecting on Alt Text and its Ethics Recently, I attended “Art for Alt Text and The Pedagogy of Description.” The workshop is part of Alt Text as Poetry, a project by Bojana Col […]

Let's Build a Browser Extension! Browser Extension Basics Browser extensions are simple tools that allow you to enhance your web browsing experience and workflows. For […]

Beyond the Map: Visual Literacy & Storytelling That Sticks Story maps have exploded in popularity lately, becoming the go-to tool for effectively communicating data-driven narratives across fields like […]

Hidden Costs of AI and the Case for Luddite Thinking In conversations about technology, being called a Luddite is a big insult. Colloquially, it refers to a kind of technophobic kook who’s m […]

Register for GCDI Conversations in Digital Scholarship GCDI Conversations in Digital Scholarship A Symposium Hosted by the GC Digital Fellows May 13, 2025 from 2 – 4 PM Register here on a […]

Ethical Metadata for Digital Projects Metadata is a foundational element of many digital projects, from tagging posts on a blog, to categorizing resources, to describing archival […]

Become a 2025-2026 GC Digital Fellow Deadline: March 21, 2025 @ 11:59 p.m. Application link: https://cuny.is/gcdf25-26 Are you looking for a fellowship that will challenge you […]

Rethinking Participatory Mapping as a Justice-Oriented Practice Maps do more than document space—they shape who is visible, prioritized, and excluded. Participatory mapping is often framed as a d […]

Doing humanidades digitales at CUNY Humanidades Digitales is the Spanish name for Digital Humanities (DH). While this might be seen as a mere translation, for many of us it […]