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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 […]

Welcome to Spring 2025! The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows have been hard at work developing resources,  events, workshops, and […]

Have patience, think creatively: reflections on building digital identity and communications capacity for @gcsocialwelfare This post is written by Ian G. Williams, PhD student in Social Welfare and Program Social Media Fellow. Connect with Ian G. Williams on […]

Racialized Aspects of Data Collection & Data Use There is a common misconception that data is neutral, an objective truth. However, the data that we use to build computer programs, to conduct […]

Join us at the GC Digital Research Institute The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI) Jan. 21st – 24th Application due: December 3rd, 11:59pm  December 6 @ noon / 12:00 PM Are you i […]

EXTENDED DATE: Apply by 2/7/2025 for the Provost's Digital Innovation Grants Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants Call for Proposals Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants ( […]

Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene The Anthropocene is the age marked by the substantial consequences that human activities have caused to the Earth system (the different natural […]

What is metadata, and why does it matter? Metadata is “data about data”. In other words, metadata is information that describes one or more aspects of data. It makes working with dat […]

Tidying Data Using tidyverse in R Introduction When researchers collect quantitative data, they often store it in a CSV, TSV, or TXT file for cleaning and analysis. This data […]