Irwin Chen

Research


Academic and independent research

AshLab

Digital Humanities

A cross-disciplinary digital humanities project at The New School to create an interactive archive of poet John Ashbery's home, featuring a 360-degree tour, visual database, and multimedia annotations that combine literature, digital design, and historical research to offer insights into Ashbery's life and work.

Journalism Ecosystem Model

Project Lead, 2020

Worked with Francis Tseng to develop a model that explored the interactions of news publisher revenue, social media platforms, advertising markets, news coverage, and news deserts. 


Crisis of the Free Press System Map

System Map, Wicked Problem Task Force, 2017-2024

After extensive research and dozens of interviews with experts in journalism, media studies, history, law, complexity science, business and sociology, we created this map of the forces, interactions, and connections in the system.