Is a Critical Digital Humanities Possible? Lessons from Postcolonial Digital Humanities
Postcolonial Digital Humanities: Concepts and Challenges
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Adeline Koh!Richard Stockton College!
Postcolonial Digital Humanities
Concepts and Challenges
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#DHPoco: How it Began@adelinekoh
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#DHPoco
❖ Began with a Twitter hashtag"
❖ Coproduction with Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam), assistant prof. of world literature at Salem State University
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#DHPoco Comics@adelinekoh
#DHPoco Comics: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com/tagged/comics!5
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dhpoco.org!7
Mission StatementTechnology is not culturally neutral"Technology contains global structural inequalities
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#DHPoco Core Tenets
productive intersections between !postcolonial studies and digital humanities
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IntersectionsMaster’s Tools"Master’s Language"Human versus Computational Languages
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#DHPoco❖ Emergent field of study"
❖ Draws from postcolonial studies and digital humanities"
❖ Goals:"
❖ Decolonizing digital products and cultures"
❖ Foregrounding anticolonial thought"
❖ Disrupting narratives of technological and global progress
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UN Women Awareness@adelinekoh
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Algorithms as Social Mirror?
❖ Anna Jobin (@annajobin) asks: “Who is in charge when algorithms are in charge?” "
❖ @annajobin: “Algorithms are more than a technological issue: they involve not only automated data analysis, but also decision-making.”
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Challenges
❖ Resistance"
❖ Privilege"
❖ Access"
❖ Language
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MLA 2014
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Opportunities to Work with #DHPoco
❖ Submit to the #DHPoco website"
❖ Host a node of the Rewriting Wikipedia Project"
❖ MLA 2014"
❖ Possible DHPoco Special Interest Group in the ADHO (Assn of Digital Humanities Organizations)"
❖ Contact Adeline Koh (@adelinekoh) or Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam)
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