This talk by Purdom Lindblad is a great entry point for understanding how the concept of the Anthropocene relates to digital humanities. The “Anthropocene” is a term that refers to our current geological time period, in which human activity has been the main influence on the environment—a time defined by mass extinctions and climate change brought about through our own…
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DH Read: “Recap: Scholars for Social Justice Twitter Chat”
On HASTAC, Linda Luu posted a recap of the first Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ) Twitter chat. Taking on the subject of “Racism, Resistance, and Free Speech,” the February 13th chat included invited participants Charlene Carruthers, Cathy Cohen, Alvaro Huerta, Barbara Ransby, C. Riley Snorton, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and was moderated by Jenn Jackson. As Luu explains in the recap: Academia has…
DH Read: “From Disclaimer to Critique: Race and the Digital Image Archivist”
In an important article in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Kate Holterhoff asks, “Is it the responsibility of digital archivists to curate and annotate the hateful objects they release into the online public sphere, or should these statements be made outside of the archive in peer-reviewed journals, edited collections, or academic blogs?” Believing that reliance on disclaimers is passive and insufficient, Holterhoff…
DH Read: “Digital Humanities as Resistance”
Like my own post on a theme that I’d been tracking all year in DHNow, the other first-year DH Fellow, Jessica Dauterive, wrote a post on activism and digital humanities. She’s compiled a number of useful posts on the subject and makes an important argument about the impact the election has had on digital humanities as a field. From the post:…
