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presents
DHI LIGHTNING
TALKS
April 4th, 2023
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The Pleasures and
Perils of
Generative AI
Imagery
Ian G. Williams, LMSW
PhD Program in Social Welfare
Advanced Certificate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy
CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY DHI Lightning Talks
April 3, 2023
@igraywill
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“AI Art” & Autoethnography
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Case Studies
ITP Core I: visual annotation Twitter: #socialworkaiart
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Pleasures & Perils
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“Activism and the College
Experience”
(Co-taught by Isabel Estrada &
Stefano Morello at CCNY,
Spring 2022)
Goals:
1. Reflect on contemporary forms of and narratives
engendering digital activism
2. Examine political activism on CCNY campus in the
context of international conflict between
totalitarianism and democracy before WWII
3. Introduce digital humanities tools and
methodologies through archival recovery project
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JPEGs
Machine
Encoded Text
HTML
Annotated
Edition
Manifold
Edition
Reading
Identifying
Critical
Expressions
Researching
Compiling
Annotations
Adding
Annotations
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In Class
● Four Workshops
○ “What is/are the Digital
Humanities?”
○ OCR and Text Analysis
○ HTML and Web
Development
○ Working with Manifold
● Five Working Sessions
● Critical engagement with
technology throughout the
course
https://tinyurl.com/CCNY-lmpk
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From Public
Testimony to a
Database
Using text analysis tools to engineer a
publicly-accessible database
Rebecca Krisel
Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
This project has been generously supported by:
● The GC Digital Initiatives and Office of the Provost Digital Innovation Grant
● The GC Digital Initiatives and Mina Rees Library Data for Public Good
Fellowship
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Web Scraping PDF Files from the New York
City Districting Commission Website
Rebecca Krisel, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
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Using Named Entity Recognition to Identify
Relevant Data Points
Rebecca Krisel, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
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Finalizing the database
● Keep only data related to location, group identities, organizations, and
elected officials
● Clean any misclassified data
● Attach links to each file
● Add geocodes to location-based data for mapping abilities
● Share final database on a website for public use
Rebecca Krisel, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center