Kristen Hackett is a PhD candidate in environmental psychology program and a GC Digital Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is also a member of the executive committee of the Justice For All Coalition. Her scholarship and activism focus on housing and community development. Learn more at http://kristenhackett.info.
Faculty have expressed increasing interest in assigning podcasts in undergraduate courses because these exercises develop useful skills and engage technology-oriented youth. Podcasts help students develop skills, such as audio …
On 13, Nov 2017 | In Spotlight | By Jojo Karlin Creator: Ryan Seslow Project: NET-ART Course & Gallery on the CUNY Academic Commons Discipline: Communication Technology, Digital Art, Digital Storytelling …
Welcome fellow Commoners, I’m happy to bring you all another spotlight on a #maker here at the Commons, Michelle Zimmer’s project The Bronx was Brewing. In the years before prohibition, …
With the rapid growth of social media outlets, its users have willfully shared personal information, most often unaware that in doing so they have allowed what they considered private to …
In anticipation of our upcoming panel discussion Social Media in Theory and Praxis: What is at Stake Now?, we wanted to highlight panel member Alise Tifentale, who will be giving her …
Kelsey’s photo, a “soundtent” at soundcamp, Stave Hill Ecological Park, London, UK, 2017 It was just a bit after 4:00 a.m. in London and jet lag was thankfully working in …
Welcome fellow Commoners, In this post I focus on a project Jason Nielsen and I have been working on this semester. Jason and I are both instructors at Queens College …
The Social Mediums are kind of metrics wonks. The work of promotion and social engagement can seem very *squishy* if you can’t measure your impact and figure out what’s working …
It’s easy to forget that “social media” encompass much more than Twitter of Facebook. As social media fellows, we don’t just think of it as platforms, but also as a way …
Welcome fellow Commoners! This week I want to highlight two courses that are running on the Commons this semester whose expressed goal is sharing content beyond their classrooms. As the …
