CUNY Academic Commons | Steve Brier | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/sbrier/activity/ Activity feed for Steve Brier. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 3d6c9baded8330c27ada56c54f6f0ba0 Steve Brier's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/829957/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:41:30 -0500 faf15114cce6e76b88b4a9cf63254093 Steve Brier replied to the topic Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the group in the forum Digital Dissertations https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=126049 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:07:48 -0500 Although I am now an emeritus professor, as the co-founder of the New Media Lab and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program and a faculty member who co-taught a number of DH courses at the GC and who sat on the doctoral committee of the first fully digital dissertation at GC, I am thrilled to see that this initiative is moving…[Read more]

]]> a49004b3774f8891f68e693ec747dc7e Steve Brier commented on the post, Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2020-21, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/06/03/dissertations-and-theses-year-in-review-2020-21/#comment-183841 Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:24:26 -0400 You are a treasure, Roxanne. This is simply a wonderful intro into ⁶our students’ culminating scholarly work. Thanks for providing such an elegant summary of what students produced in this crazy year. With a […]

]]> 65f2c53311a6234c83c81647fb4e9050 Steve Brier commented on the post, Two Larges at Lombardi's, on the groupblog CUNY Pie via email https://cunypie.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/09/18/two-larges-at-lombardis/#comment-481 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:56:28 -0500 My mouth was watering reading this. Good for you, fellas, for being intrepid in the midst of the madness. You carry the banner for all of us. With admiration and a bit of jealousy.

]]> 88752afc86342b057cd8a4ebc025c1a1 Steve Brier joined the group CUNY Distance Learning Archive https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/694785/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:06:25 -0400 5506c02ba9f0660a765f2fd3d2934ab2 Steve Brier's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/612487/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:28:10 -0500 d3b32e6deb2954cda4e23644e30039b9 Steve Brier replied to the topic CUNY Pie Revival!!! (Friday, May 24 6pm -- please RSVP) in the forum CUNY Pie - Forum https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=76667 Tue, 21 May 2019 16:03:24 -0400 I would have loved to come to the revival of CUNY Pie, especially because you’re in my nabe. But it the Friday night before the Memorial Day weekend and we have plans to get out of town. Sorry to miss it.

]]> 91e3ef7e060322a93d4f007acdea8a15 Steve Brier's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/538229/ Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:51:49 -0500 439b0befc20af0044e133f1b91f7f6ea Steve Brier commented on the post, A question on citing email communications?, on the site ITP Core 1 Fall 2017 https://itpcore1fall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/11/22/a-question-on-citing-email-communications/#comment-61 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:52:35 -0500 Yes, you should, as a courtesy, let your person know you plan to quote their email communication.

]]> de8cb461d8b54826b1211de01e702633 Steve Brier commented on the post, A question on citing email communications?, on the site ITP Core 1 Fall 2017 https://itpcore1fall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/11/22/a-question-on-citing-email-communications/#comment-58 Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:27:21 -0500 Good question, Kyueun. I use Chicago 16 as my style authority and use their Note/Bibliography format. Here’s what they say about how to write a citation for any personal communication (substitute “email message” […]

]]> c75df1a7eefe3c74cb793ae91912b46f Steve Brier commented on the post, Provocation on James Paul Gee’s What Videogames Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, on the site ITP Core 1 Fall 2017 https://itpcore1fall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/10/30/provocation-on-james-paul-gees-what-videogames-have-to-teach-us-about-learning-and-literacy/#comment-45 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:40:53 -0400 Thanks for this thoughtful post, Jing. Your description of how gaming was ans is perceived in China is fascinating. The challenge in Gee is how we can apply his insights in the semiotic domain of pedagogy.

]]> 5d19954289b02b8cee79cad87126af39 Steve Brier commented on the post, Remember that We Switched the Oct. 16 & Oct. 23 Classes in the Syllabus, on the site ITP Core 1 Fall 2017 https://itpcore1fall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/10/14/remember-that-we-switched-the-oct-16-oct-23-classes-in-the-syllabus/#comment-35 Sun, 15 Oct 2017 14:08:42 -0400 We goofed as well. We forgot to switch the assigned readings on the Group site after we switched dates. So folks might have been understandably confused. Sorry about that.

]]> ee886b2df7316514bebfe2ce3927fdae Steve Brier commented on the post, Blade Runner 2049, on the site ITP Core 1 Fall 2017 https://itpcore1fall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/09/10/blade-runner-2049/#comment-15 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:03:20 -0400 Good point. I missed that, Jenna. Thanks

]]> 8633705299346ba1f3624c6900546f26 Steve Brier commented on the post, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin, on the site ITP Core 1 Fall 2017 https://itpcore1fall2017.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/09/07/the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction-by-walter-benjamin/#comment-5 Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:48:15 -0400 Thanks Carolyn and Angelique. So many good questions to ponder and so little time. Tomorrow’s discussion will be jam packed, I suspect (and we haven’t even included the EP Thompson and Schivelbusch readings!).

]]> b4816d0c5bb417fac3b8eb0d79cb52bf Steve Brier's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/466884/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 14:06:18 -0400 e422ddf0bcdff5975eaa6ff90990c54a Steve Brier changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/466879/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:56:03 -0400 8676e1d326cea6e17432c6f005c5da27 Steve Brier commented on the post, Friedman Op-Ed, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course https://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/28/friedman-op-ed/#comment-70 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:01:51 -0500 Love it! Thanks for posting this, Lisa. Reminds us what a bloviator sounds like.

]]> 5c89245037e1fa8788d6b6486b309057 Steve Brier commented on the post, Data Project: Korean tweets with "hashtag I am a feminist", on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/28/data-project-hashtag-feminist/#comment-353 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:28:57 -0500 Achim, this is a very promising project and I’m pleased with how far you’ve been able to carry it forward already. It would be interesting for you to speculate, even at this early stage, about what kinds of data […]

]]> a487274f28b5f404064c1641904fab30 Steve Brier commented on the post, Data Project: Ellipses in James Joyce's Dubliners, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/21/1235/#comment-352 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:09:53 -0500 Michael, I like the way you puzzled your way through this, which is the essence of what takes to do digital data work like this. You grabbed what you could from other work and you adapted what was available to […]

]]> 1cc04e898718fc5d53bfbba1af57ca5c Steve Brier commented on the post, Data Project: Female Writer Metadata in Wikidata, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/19/data-project-female-writer-metadata-in-wikidata/#comment-351 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:59:04 -0500 Kate, this is an important and interesting project. There are obviously two major issues with Wikipedia: the preponderance of male editors and writers who develop and oversee/make determinations about content of […]

]]> 69fa441d1bd4e273f433f705a977556c Steve Brier commented on the post, Wikipedia and the "Content Gap", on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/18/wikipedia-and-the-content-gap/#comment-65 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:05:27 -0500 Great final point, Wendy, about the need for “neutral” writing in Wikipedia. It’s one of the things that has always posed problems for me with writing on Wp (which I suspect you might have imagined, given my […]

]]> e0bea92dc05b15a3e333ac18ebdf5d9f Steve Brier commented on the post, Thoughts on "The Digital Humanities Is Not About Building, It's About Sharing", on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/21/thoughts-on-the-digital-humanities-is-not-about-building-its-about-sharing/#comment-64 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:00:07 -0500 Nicely done, Kat. Appreciate your post.

]]> 87b67eef53a5340a7d32878963be2b87 Steve Brier commented on the post, More Info on Copyright, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/22/more-info-on-copyright/#comment-63 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:58:14 -0500 Thanks for these, Kat. I made your links hot (you do that by clicking on the chain link button on the top of where you post and clicking on the arrow facing left to “Apply”).

]]> dc10d471f0ae977fe87c40b789c2e3a7 Steve Brier commented on the post, Mapping Terror: Lynchings and Demography, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/16/mapping-terror-lynchings-and-demography/#comment-255 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:48:28 -0500 Eduard: This is an important project though I appreciate how you’ve struggled trying to figure out how to narrow down your inquiry and data collection. I think you’ve touched on an important response to lynching: […]

]]> 12dbf70571831487762f6078a3297c3f Steve Brier commented on the post, Data Project: Interpretive Analysis of Congressional Research Service Reports, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/09/data-project-interpretive-analysis-of-congressional-research-service-reports/#comment-254 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:36:18 -0500 Claire, I’m impressed by the sheer size of the CRS corpus and wonder if it might make more sense to pull out a subset to work with at this stage rather than try to deal with the unwieldy size of the .txt files you […]

]]> 7e3ef29f7195c0a616d37f87e21b4f4f Steve Brier commented on the post, DH Praxis Seminar - Data Project: A Queer Topography of Weimar Berlin, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/09/dh-praxis-seminar-data-project-a-queer-topography-of-weimar-berlin/#comment-253 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:16:36 -0500 Marti, this is a great topic and I look forward to seeing how the mapping portion of it plays out. Will this convey a sense of how specific neighborhoods or streets tended to concentrate homosexual life and […]

]]> 5dd268d662a9641943c47609578b4b91 Steve Brier commented on the post, Short is better? Analyzing the 'participate reception' of a text, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/09/short-is-better-analyzing-the-participate-reception-of-a-text/#comment-252 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:04:00 -0500 Luri, really interesting project to use tweets and the dataset you’ve focused in on seems promising, especially given the broad political and policy themes. Nice, decent dataset size (1,500 tweets from 795 […]

]]> b783f984abd2485a9d70b9c629126e68 Steve Brier commented on the post, Dataset: The Roosevelt Store Ledger, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/09/dataset-the-roosevelt-store-ledger/#comment-251 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:51:45 -0500 Mary, Lisa’s suggestion is a good one. It’s always a good idea to see how others have handled similar datasets of historical materials. I was pleased with the final paragraph at the end of the post where you […]

]]> d93bffad73b061dc4d69e1e8609ef8a8 Steve Brier commented on the post, One Library's Collection and How Can Call Number Analysis Be of Any Use?, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/09/one-librarys-collection-and-how-can-call-number-analysis-be-of-any-use/#comment-250 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:36:43 -0500 Lauren, I love that you’ve spent as much time on figuring out why you are doing this project (which has very practical, real world consequences for you and your library’s patrons) as how you are executing it. […]

]]> 43e755df2bfbb1790a3c55ff34a4a04e Steve Brier commented on the post, Documentation of urban witnessing with media archival data, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/08/documentation-of-urban-witnessing-with-media-archival-data/#comment-249 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:02:33 -0500 Élif, This is an important AND difficult project. I really like the focus of your research, connecting the Occupy movements in Istanbul and NYC, but as described, I’m not clear where the U.S. piece fits in. Maybe […]

]]> 8e2eecbff8b1c4c4fc1f93356e3f0eff Steve Brier commented on the post, Data Project: (A Selection From) On Kawara's Time Series, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/08/data-project-a-selection-of-on-kawaras-time-series/#comment-248 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 15:35:21 -0500 Dannabelle, I, too, know nothing about the artist. He does seem to be incredibly data driven. My response has to do with the potential larger meaning you hope to derive from your data analysis. What do think it […]

]]> 283114170061a09fc06ebd44d89237b9 Steve Brier commented on the post, Data Project: Virginia is for Movers, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/07/data-project-virginia-is-for-movers/#comment-247 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 15:00:05 -0500 Carolyn: Now that the election’s over and Clinton “won” Virginia, your analysis is even more timely in that you were correct to want to analyze the evolution of Virginia from purple to blue in an election that […]

]]> 63023e6328d226eff56135b5f3f4d794 Steve Brier commented on the post, DH Praxis Data Project: Building a Finnegans Wake dataset, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/07/dh-praxis-data-project-building-a-finnegans-wake-dataset/#comment-245 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:43:14 -0500 Greg. I’m impressed by how far you’ve already taken this. My first question in all such data projects is: How much do you trust the data you are suing, that is the Rosenbloom Concordance? Is it generally accepted […]

]]> 2d9010e43c7b0911a1d3175ffcc8bcf3 Steve Brier commented on the post, DH school data project data set | Lower East Side Librarian, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/06/dh-school-data-project-data-set-lower-east-side-librarian/#comment-244 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:32:19 -0500 Hi, Jenna. Great project that I think will be visually and conceptually exciting. I agree with Lisa that we need to get a much clearer sense of the type and quality of the metadata that you will to work with. That […]

]]> e7dfac575a2f6e6c03d51e24d13b892f Steve Brier wrote a new post on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=446 Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:58:53 -0500 Hi, all. I’ve posted the final paper assignment under a new top menu item entitled “Assignments”. To save space I eliminated the First Paper Assignment menu item and combined it under a general “Assignments” tab […]

]]> e1d9d5ebeb7ad5b99ab7ce0729504f2f Steve Brier commented on the post, Marx, Harvey, and Engels - Is Money a Fatal Error?, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/17/marx-harvey-and-engels-is-money-a-fatal-error/#comment-14 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:28:51 -0400 Great questions, Aleksandr. If money, in Marx’s theory, is nothing more than “congealed labour value,” doesn’t that in part answer your questions?

]]> 8e9409312b342e1c17e9947d97a86011 Steve Brier commented on the post, Sleeping with the Enemy: Cunning and Control among Networked Bodies, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/11/sleeping-with-the-enemy-cunning-and-control-among-networked-bodies/#comment-8 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:45:29 -0400 Thoughtful observations, Anders. I was particularly struck by your statement: “I found it interesting and productive how Hayles and Haraway show how their ideas of the ‘cyborg’ and the ‘posthuman’ emerge as femi […]

]]> f3b051fb87c49bf759644288d6f5ca18 Steve Brier commented on the post, Fall Workshops at the GC Library, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/07/127/#comment-3 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:12:55 -0400 I highly recommend that everyone in the class take one of the Library’s Zotero workshops, if you already haven’t done so. They are offering 4 throughout the rest of September.

]]> c21bf8a1665bc49737a3aea7f7d01dc2 Steve Brier joined the group Utopian and Speculative Fiction Studies https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/439982/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:52:12 -0400 63bc98ccc36bdee7d2e86cd6f936e4b2 Steve Brier commented on the post, #BlackLivesMatter and the Power of the Primary, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/07/13/power-of-the-primary/#comment-6077 Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:24:45 -0400 Great post, Shawn. Thanks for letting the GC community know about these important primary sources on Black history that are now available. I know several students who will make use of them, as will I.

]]> 837504cd892a70b3b2ef5ff3a53af900 Steve Brier commented on the post, Idea for a Dataset/Project Proposal, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 http://dhpraxis14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/10/19/idea-for-a-datasetproject-proposal/#comment-272 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:29:47 -0400 If there is enough interest in the class to work with the Twitter API I’m sure we can find someone to offer a workshop on it. Several students have already used it in their work and I think we can find a volunteer […]

]]> 0da9e2abae2bf86f0764425fa067ea78 Steve Brier commented on the post, Dataset Project: Testing Gephi, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 http://dhpraxis14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/10/18/dataset-project-testing-gephi/#comment-246 Sun, 19 Oct 2014 04:03:28 -0400 I assume you have a Mac, Sarah, which has a one button mouse? You right click by holding down the Command key and then clicking and you get the “save as” menu. Hope that helps a little moving forward. Great start […]

]]> 77d14448bcfd71e0f4cd8724af5bc3bb Steve Brier's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/307867/ Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:30:10 -0400 c6c75b6b6a96cc7d491538260db19a06 Steve Brier commented on the post, On Ethos and Values, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 http://dhpraxis14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/09/01/on-ethos-and-values/#comment-15 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:47:48 -0400 It would be helpful if you indicated which aspects of Web 2.0 you are most uncomfortable with. And, is it a choice in the end between a traditional dissertation or thesis and a TED talk? Can we imagine something in between?

]]> c8fe018da0cb44a48da3e9c019b416d7 Steve Brier wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 http://dhpraxisf13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/10/31/latest-installment-in-the-ongoing-series-whither-the-humanities/ Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:37:05 -0500 read Tamar Lewin’s piece in today’s NY Times?

]]> 0428e62a5f9684ea11ba25066b86879b Steve Brier wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 http://dhpraxisf13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/27/lessons/ Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:36:38 -0500 Great posts all about Tom’s presentation on Monday. What I think One Week/One Tool demonstrates is the positive benefit of using digital technologies to help us break free of the intellectual, organizational and […]

]]> b2256da06784ff5ce4feaedb5bd86e31 Steve Brier wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 http://dhpraxisf13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/12/03/message-from-steve-romalewski/ Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:36:37 -0500 Steve and Matt,

I hope yesterday’s presentation was helpful.  The students had some good questions.  As I mentioned, I’d be glad to follow up with them individually if they have more specific questions or want […]

]]> 7fb640a6f6103e16dbdead75d3d9f0c2 Steve Brier changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/247444/ Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:16:56 -0500 58b36880301fe4eb198814a9b4cce1ee Steve Brier replied to the forum topic Transcription services in the group Internet Research Team via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/internet-research-team/forum/topic/transcription-services/?topic_page=1#post-16855 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:25:17 -0500 That’s helpful, Shawnta, thanks. Can you give us a rough idea of what people in the group charge per hour or page of transcription?
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Dr. Stephen Brier, Senior Academic Technology Officer
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]]> c06a0a86aa34a0eac08665cd93be9c7b Steve Brier replied to the forum topic Tom Scheinfeldt, “Making Hay: Lessons in Collaboration from One Week | One Tool ” – Mon 11/25, 4:15p in the group Internet Research Team via email http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/internet-research-team/forum/topic/tom-scheinfeldt-making-hay-lessons-in-collaboration-from-one-week-one-tool-mon-1125-415pm-530pm-skylight-room-9100-9101/?topic_page=1#post-16263 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:44:36 -0500 Absolutely

Dr. Stephen Brier, Senior Academic Technology Officer
Professor, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education
Coordinator, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program
Co-Director, New […]

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