We are pleased to announce the four recipients of the 2013 NML Digital Dissertation Award. The quality of the submissions was outstanding, demonstrating the innovative work being done by doctoral students in redefining the dissertation.
Sonia González, Public Health, “Where can I get an HIV test? There’s an App for that.”
Caro Muñoz Proto, Psychology, Critical Social/Personality, “Memoscopio”
Antonia Santangelo, Anthropology, “Black Sea Fish and Mollusks”
Ozy Yuksel-Sokmen, Psychology, Developmental, “Medea’s Map of Colchis”
CONGRATULATIONS to all winners and we look forward to next year’s submissions!
April 26, 2013 – 12:31 pm
It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years. Five years since I moved to New York City, and five years since I first started my work at the American Social History Project and New Media Lab.
It’s been an honor and privilege to have had the opportunity to work with so many of you. To learn about the work that you’re doing and hopefully share a bit about technology and what I do.
It’s been an exciting five years too. The rise of digital humanities, at least in the sense of it as a way of understanding the role that the New Media Lab fills here at the Graduate Center. I think it quite remarkable that we’ve gone from a time where it seemed we came from different walks-of-life to a space where we were learning to speak a common tongue. Now, the language of digital humanities has become a shared language.
While I think this does a lot of great things to push digital scholarship forward, I hope that we don’t lose what we had in the days before the jargon of digital humanities, the shared values, the philosophies and core ideas. Let’s not become too inward looking. Continue looking outward and the lab can continue being the communal space where digital humanists run into digital scientists, digital social scientists, digital everyone—a place not defined by the trendy buzzword but by the work and collaborations that are generated within.
It’s been a pleasure to work with each and everyone of you. Good luck in your future digital work, your dissertations, and wherever else your careers may take you.
-Aaron Knoll
@aaronknoll
P.S. The em-dash in this piece is dedicated to all the em-dashes that I’ve encountered in the last five years.
Wonderful, well attended NML general meeting earlier this afternoon! In addition to great project discussions with Kate O’Donoghue and Laurie Hurson, the masses came out to celebrate Aaron Knoll who is moving on to a new job. We hope he will drop in any time but we wish him the very best in this next stage of his professional life. He made such special contributions to the New Media Lab. Thanks for everything, Aaron!
April 19, 2013 – 11:57 am
Here is the most recent version of the NML lab schedule.
March 27, 2013 – 11:17 am
Two of the projects presented at the last NML meeting are in the NYC Next Top Makers Challenge. This is the last day to vote for the Heart Matrix, or the Bike Computer. You can see all the prototypes from last week’s meeting complete with in-depth tutorials at the Lucidtronix site.
Heart Matrix Kit
Above you can see the Heart Matrix Kit.
The Bike Computer's bike-shaped Printed Circuit Board. Thanks for voting!
Friday, March 29, 9am-12pm. Register here.
Instructor: Deb Stead
This three-hour workshop will focus on reaching the public via Op-Eds, essays, and interviews with reporters. We’ll cover the idea of news pegs, the art of pitching a piece to editors, the difference between journalistic and academic writing, the editing process, and techniques for talking to journalists who contact you about your work.
As part of this discussion, an editor and a reporter will talk about what they’re looking for when it comes to describing (and demystifying) research or study results.
Participants will learn how to:
Recognize a news peg on which to hang an Op-Ed or article
Pitch an Op-Ed or article to a publication
Work within the give-and-take of a publication’s editing process
Demystify complex concepts for a general audience
Work with reporters seeking information about their research
FREE and open to all faculty, grad students, and researchers. At the CUNY J-School, 219 W. 40th Street, NYC, sponsored by JustPublics@365.
More info: http://justpublics365.commons.gc.cuny.edu/mediacamp/#0329
Hi Folks, I’m doing a $20 class on skillshare called Teach Yourself to Code: One Month Rails. It’s an all on-line and intended for beginners.
Full disclosure, if you sign up I get a $10 credit. Learn more here: http://skl.sh/11gMyqN
Sonia
March 18, 2013 – 10:48 am
Join us this Wednesday afternoon for our March meeting. We’ll be hearing from two students who’ve been with the lab since 2012 and before.
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Sonia Gonzalez, from the Public Health program will talk a bit about an educational app she has been working on for helping young people get informed about important sexual and reproductive health services. Sonia’s been working on everything from design to platform considerations. She’ll be updating us on where she’s been and where she’s taking the project.
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Samwell Freeman is probably best known for his art and robotics projects made from obsolete technology. He’s given some memorable presentations in the past. This week he’s going to talk a bit about a new project he’s working on and the direction that he might be going down in semesters to come.
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Other than that, there will be a lot of both returning and new faces of both faculty and students talking about their digital work. Stop by and catch up or get acquainted with the GC’s digital cutting edge.
February 21, 2013 – 3:48 pm
Here is the most recent version of the NML lab schedule.
February 11, 2013 – 4:48 pm
We’ve upgraded our ArcGIS license to the latest version [10] in the lab. Its now available on Windows machine 1. For those looking for an alternative [or a mac program for GIS], many students in the lab have been working with the free and open-source QGIS.
