One more application of digital humanities

Echoing Juan Carlos’ post on applications of digital humanities, I’ve seen exciting opportunities to apply digital methods in social science as well, especially in my field, urban studies. Besides data visualization, digitization, spatial analysis and representation,...

Technology and Equity

In 2018, The New York Times contributor Nellie Bowles published an article concerning digital literacy and socioeconomic class of youngsters in the United States titled, “The Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids is Not What We Expected.” One might assume that higher...

Thinking Through Hybrid Digital Heritage

Last week, the CHI fellows cohort started our second rapid development project. We are building a project pitch website based on our “Project Version Document” from the first challenge (see Micayla Spiro’s post for more on that project!). For our site, my group...

Museum Spaces

Recently, I’ve gained the opportunity to work with museum curators and staff through the SEEK fellowship. This year, the museum is building an exhibit based on “Observation.” You can peruse the exhibit’s topic at this link:...

Bit by Bit

For this blog post, I’d like to share a book I recently read. The book is called Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, written by Matthew Salganik. It discusses new opportunities, challenges, and common pitfalls of using large scale digital data for social...