Lowriding Through the Digital Humanities
Date: January 6, 2016 ·Views: 9267 ·Posted in: 2016 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Annemarie Perez
Note: The title of this piece is shamelessly borrowed from Barbara Noda’s “Lowriding Through the Women’s Movement,” a piece which creatively addresses the power a group made up of women of color could have on individuals during the women’s movement. It was published in the classic, This Bridge
Computer Vision as a Public Act: On Digital Humanities and Algocracy
Date: January 6, 2016 ·Views: 4938 ·Posted in: 2016 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Jentery Sayers
Computer vision is generally associated with the programmatic description and reconstruction of the physical world in digital form (Szeliski 2010: 3-10). It helps people construct and express visual patterns in data, such as patterns in image, video, and text repositories. The processes involved in this recognition are incredibly
Universal Design and Its Discontents
Date: January 6, 2016 ·Views: 11163 ·Posted in: 2016 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Rick Godden and Jonathan Hsy
INTRO:
Our online position paper is a two-headed reflection on disability and universalism in the fields of Digital Humanities (DH) and Universal Design (UD). One of the authors, Richard H. Godden, considers how particular experience of disability shapes his use of media and also informs his reactions
Race as “Disruptive Innovation” for Restorative Social Justice in DH: Virtual Heritage and 3D Reconstructions of South Africa’s Township Histories
Date: January 6, 2016 ·Views: 4050 ·Posted in: 2016 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Angel David Nieves
This précis is part of a forthcoming essay in Dorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel, Disrupting Digital Humanities (New York: Punctum Books, forthcoming). This is published here as part of the MLA 2016 (Austin) panel presentation, “Disrupting the Digital Humanities: New Radical Publics.” Do not copy or quote without
Milking the Deficit Internship
Date: January 6, 2016 ·Views: 6533 ·Posted in: 2016 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Spencer D. C. Keralis
“…and when justice is gone, there’s always force.” ~ Laurie Anderson, “O Superman (For Massenet)”
That labor in the academy is unequal is well and frequently documented. The divisions and inequities in responsibilities and compensation between administrators (and/especially coaches) and faculty, between tenure-track faculty and adjuncts, between faculty