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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Dear fellow Commoners, I have another behind-the-scenes look for this week! Below, I present an interview with Ned Benton, Co-Director of the New York Slavery Records Index and Professor at John Jay College. …
Welcome fellow Commoners, This week I’m looking backwards at sites that have been left dormant on the Commons and offer a kind of “distant reading. The title of this post …
