After the Digital Humanities, or, a postscript
Date: January 10, 2015 ·Views: 7002 ·Posted in: 2015 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Fiona Barnett
As a meditation on the theme of ‘disrupting’ the digital humanities, I offer five moments of disruption for consideration:
(1) A few days ago, at my other MLA 2015 panel, #QueerOS: Queerness as Operating System, my fellow panelist Jacob Gaboury gave an amazing paper on “Compiling a Queer Computation.”
Ecstatic Necessariness: Turmoil as Process in Digital Humanities
Date: January 9, 2015 ·Views: 10336 ·Posted in: 2015 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Sean Michael Morris
For the last three years while I’ve worked with Hybrid Pedagogy, I have been flip about Digital Humanities as a field, a practice, or a pursuit. I have largely dismissed the work of digital humanists as arcane, irrelevant, boxy and tiresome, or as posturing by hungry, over-educated academics
The Public Digital Humanities
Date: January 9, 2015 ·Views: 13747 ·Posted in: 2015 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Jesse Stommel
The public digital humanities starts with humans, not technologies or tools, and its terrain must be continuously co-constructed. There is no place within the public digital humanities for exclusion or anti-intellectualism. No place for hierarchies: inside the academy / outside the academy; teacher / student; senior scholar /
A Close Reading of The DHThis Cat: Policing/Disrupting the Boundaries of the Digital Humanities and Strategic Uses for Cat GIFs
Date: January 9, 2015 ·Views: 10677 ·Posted in: 2015 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
by Adeline Koh
In 2013 a group of colleagues and I started “DHThis”: an experimental publishing and curation platform for the digital humanities. The project was a Reddit/Slashdot-like platform for crowdsourcing the best content in the field. Anyone could sign up and submit links to the site, and the most popular
#ThisTweetCalledMyBack
Date: January 8, 2015 ·Views: 2933 ·Posted in: 2015 MLA Position Papers, Digital Edition
Why These Tweets Are Called My Back
“So-called Toxic Twitter is made up of marginalized women of color for whom social media started out as yelling into the void and became a grassroots movement.”