https://shows.acast.com/we-need- gentle-truths-for-now 4: Book, University of MN Press, forthcoming: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/really-fake
particular types of resources? ◦ Webinars and online presentations? ◦ Post-covid resources? ◦ Digital projects? • Audience • Organization • Maintenance and Expandability Kelly Baker Josephs York College and The Graduate Center kjosephs@york.cuny.edu @kbjosephs
Gold’s “Knowledge Infrastructures” seminar in Spring 2020 • A crowdsourced archive that collects: ◦ communications related to the decisions to move online, ◦ documentation of online learning experiences (e.g., photos, narratives, screenshots), ◦ digital media artifacts that capture the event in real time ◦ personal narratives from students, faculty, and staff from across the CUNY system
recess in Spring 2020 • Initiated university-wide community outreach ◦ Designed http://cuny.is/cdla for community contribution ◦ Established social media presence via @cunyarchive ◦ Prompted CUNY communications via cunyarchive@gmail.com • Collected corpora of social media artifacts that include: ◦ {n}+ tweets via Python ◦ 250+ Reddit threads via Python / Webrecorder ◦ 150+ Instagram posts via Webrecorder
Find institutional backing ◦ Merge our collection with an established repository? • Secure funding to migrate data to a secure storage platform • Curatorial and preservation solutions • Metadata standardization • Creating an archive front-end to ensure accessibility • Challenges: ◦ How do we display archived social media posts? ◦ How do we do so ethically? Email: cunyarchive@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @cunyarchive Commons: http://cuny.is/cdla
Librarians and Other Academics • Survey conducted to study collaborations between archivists/librarians and other DH scholars (subject faculty, graduate students, alt-academics) on DH projects • Main themes: • Which party initiates collaborations and why? • How do archivists/librarians adjust workflows for DH projects? • How does each party view the success of the collaboration? • What did each party learn about working with their counterpart? • What administrative hurdles exist in these collaborations? Jessica Wagner Webster Jessica.wagnerwebster@baruch.cuny.edu @jwagnerarch
• Tasks may not break down according to traditional roles of each partner • Information professionals reported more difficulty in collaborative roles with DH scholars than scholars reported with information professionals • Administrative and budgetary support is a massive constraint on the success of these projects, especially for information professionals Jessica Wagner Webster Jessica.wagnerwebster@baruch.cuny.edu @jwagnerarch
of archivists and librarians with archival responsibilities, as well as of library administrators (response rate was small) on the subject of DH projects • Focused on funding, administrative support, and work portfolio • Huge emphasis from respondents on budget and work release time being necessary to complete DH work, which has become an expected part of their purview for many • Administrative verbal support often present but resources may not be provided Jessica Wagner Webster Jessica.wagnerwebster@baruch.cuny.edu @jwagnerarch
to facilitate the inclusion of marginalized groups for whom it can be said: ‘When they enter, we all enter’” - Kimberlé Crenshaw Law Professor and coined the term 2017 “Intersectionality functions as a kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.” - Bari Weiss Former New York Times staff editor Textual analysis technique based on Hamilton, William L., Jure Leskovec, and Dan Jurafsky. 2016. "Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computation Measures of Semantic Change."
4634 Anti-Feminist KotakuInAction 3579 Anti-Feminist AskFeminists 3228 Feminist AskReddit 2858 General Interest MensRights 2273 Anti-Feminist FeMRADebates 2178 Anti-Feminist The_Donald 2026 Anti-Feminist politics 1801 General Interest TwoXChromoso mes 1561 Feminist Feminism 1415 Feminist Categories based on Khan, Abeer. 2019. Text Mining to Understand Gender Issues: Stories from The Red Pill, Men's Rights, and Feminism Movements.
and Anti-feminist online communities are in closer conversation with each other • There may be a definition that is agreed upon at any given time, though definition drifts as conversation evolve over time What sociological forces might be driving this dynamism in the discourse surrounding intersectionality? • Inherent flexibility of intersectionality makes possible misunderstanding • In an atomized political context, intersectionality is no longer dominantly used as a political tool for building solidarity across identity groups • Existing individual Reddit users, sympathetic to an antifeminist perspective, seize on cultural articulations of gender and identity to build straw(wo)men
rhetorical situation. It’s a potential site for critical, real-world engagement across the curriculum. When student make complex multimodal texts they’ve read or written accessible to screenreaders, that composing task can deepen their engagement and expand their sense of audience. In the next three minutes, I’ll explain: 1) how to mechanically insert Alt-Text into Google Docs and Google Slides, and... 2) why accessible design can measure student engagement, potentially aiding in the transfer of literacy, communication, and ethical skills. A panel from Cece Bell’s 2014 graphic novel, El Deafo. Reprinted with permission of Abrams Books, New York, NY in Dalton, T. K. ““ ‘Look Down Your Shirt and Spell Attic’: Disability Encounters in El Deafo.” The Journal of Teaching Disability Studies, Issue 1. Fall 2020.
magic regardless of your discipline, try...: • PowerPoint Live Captions and Transcripts (h/t to Amy Wolfe at Brooklyn College) • Organizing with Headings (University of Minnesota) • Ersatz screen-reading from smartphones (Gizmodo) Do explore this on your own! There’s lots to say but I want to get to...
to experience the richness of New York City’s arts and cultural institutions. The University recognizes that exposure to the arts improves students’ critical thinking skills, and broadening their ability to think strategically. For many students, the challenges and wonders of the arts are elusive, expensive, perceived to be unwelcoming, or unknown. Students tend to encounter the arts through required art appreciation or survey art history courses. The CUNY Arts Project aims to integrate the arts into all aspects of university curriculum underscoring the diverse ways in which the arts intersects with academic disciplines across CUNY.
their work with CUNY colleagues, exchanged ideas and approaches, giving and receiving feedback through a designated CUNY Arts OER website housed on Academic Works and accessed through OpenEd@CUNY. With CUNY funding CUNY Arts augmented the Program by creating an OER (Open Educational Resource) component. The OER element oomplements CUNY Arts as it currently exists by adding pedagogical resources that enhance both faculty and students engagement with the CUNY Arts program. CUNY Arts considers New York City cultural institutions as OERs as an opportunity to expand pedagogical choices, develop student information literacy, introduce a wider variety of course materials, and underscore interdisciplinarity, a strength of the CUNY system.
six sprints - Seven digital fellows: - Param Ajmera - Filipa Calado - Rafa Davis Portela - Kristen Hackett - Stefano Morello - Di Yoong - Led by Lisa Rhody, Kalle Westerling, and Steve Zweibel - 420 hours total work - 30 000 new/edited lines - Currently available via GitHub, soon via curriculum.dhinstitutes.org Curriculum Website - Parallel project - Built in Django, full-stack development by Kalle Westerling First sneak peek of the website.