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 – 5 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 […]

Commons 2.5: Registration, Reimagined Happy holidays, Commons community! After we closed out our major redesign project with the overhaul of Groups last spring, we turned our […]

Hosting Migration Complete! “five-thirty pm” by Sophia Lucero on flickr (cc) We are very pleased to announce that the Commons has fully migrated to Reclaim […]

Hosting Migration Downtime “LED tunnel” by Yves Sorge on flickr (cc) The hosting migration that we announced last month will begin at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, […]

Scheduled Weekend Downtime Photo Credit: R.A. Killmer on flickr (cc) We wanted to let our users know that the Commons will be unavailable starting at 8am Eastern this […]

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 […]

Hosting Upgrade and First Commons Open Community Meeting “frosted trees” from Richard Droker on Flickr With the end of the year fast approaching, we’re pleased to announce the final stages of a p […]

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 […]