• 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners

    Visual Earth: Exploring the Content of Image Sharing Around the World

    by  • June 4, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: Visual Earth: Exploring the Content of Image Sharing Around the World Grantee: Agustín Indaco Discipline: Economics Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: indaco_pdig2018   About the Project   Over the years, technology has continually influenced the way people communicate. Today cellphones and apps top the list of preferred communication methods. But in...

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    BlabRyte

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: BlabRyte Grantee: Anna Alexis Larsson Discipline: English Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: LARSSON_BLABRYTE_S18 White Paper   About the Project   BlabRyte is an online space where students can respond to writing prompts and get credit for low-stakes, exploratory writing while keeping it private. Blabryte structures a habit of writing frequently and...

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    The Walden Soundscape

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: The Walden Soundscape Grantee: Christina Katopodis Discipline: English Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Katopodis White Paper 2018   About the Project   The exigency for The Walden Soundscape project (www.thewaldenscoundscape.com) stems from recent climate change science that has shed light on the damaging effects of human impact on local and global...

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    Holographic Reading

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: Holographic Reading Grantee: Andrew Dunn Discipline: English Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Dunn – Holographic Reading – White Paper   About the Project   In the 2012 edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities, Johanna Drucker argues that computational tools and humanities scholarship are fundamentally incompatible; while the former function in...

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    Dictionary of Shyness

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Uncategorized

    Project Name: Dictionary of Shyness Grantee: Sophia Natasha Sunseri Discipline: English Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: White Paper_Sunseri   This project examines representations of shyness and willful acts of self-exclusion in literary and cultural texts of the long 18th century. Using word frequency mapping, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis to create an online...

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    Guerrilla Gallery

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: Guerrilla Gallery Grantee: Javier Otero Peña Discipline: Environmental Psychology Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: Completed White Paper: Otero Peña White Paper 2018   About the Project   This project aims to create a public-facing, interactive, and aesthetic visualization that accounts for the responses of locals to the “Guerilla Gallery” in East Harlem, a...

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    “Quantifying Kissinger”: Interactive Narratives

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: “Quantifying Kissinger”: Interactive Narratives Grantee: Micki Kaufman Discipline: History Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: QuantifyingKissinger_2017-2018_PDIG_WhitePaper_final_opt   About the Project     “Quantifying Kissinger” is a historical interpretation of the former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor’s declassified correspondence, digitized, hosted, and curated at the National Security Archive in Washington,...

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    Refer Me NYC

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: Refer Me NYC Grantee: Anthony Freeman Discipline: Social Welfare Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Refer Me NYC White Paper     About the Project     “Refer Me NYC” is a mobile app comprised of a directory of social services specific to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in...

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    Our Mobility

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: Our Mobility Grantee: Jessica Murray Discipline: Human Development / Psychology Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Murray White Paper 2018     About the Project     “Our Mobility” is a study of transportation and disadvantage: how disability, income, race, gender, and age can limit someone’s ability to transport themselves and participate...

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    The Military Toxics Transparency Project: Exposing the Military Origins of Environmental Injustice

    by  • April 19, 2018 • 2017-2018 Provost Digital Innovation Grant Winners, PDIG17-18, Provost's Digital Innovation Grants

    Project Name: The Military Toxics Transparency Project: Exposing the Military Origins of Environmental Injustice Grantee: Drake Logan Discipline: Political Science Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Logan_PDIG_WhitePaper2018     About the Project     The Military Toxic Transparency Project (MTTP or mttp://) is a new digital initiative which will break through the persistent under-coverage...

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