What do I mean by “DH Reads” and how is it different from my blog? In this part of my site, I use RRCHNM’s PressForward plugin to share online content that I find useful, meaningful, or thought-provoking. I am interested in what decolonizing digital humanities would look like, so I plan to focus on conversations around ethics and activism in DH.…
DH Reads
DH Read: “‘The Brave Little Surveillance Bear’ and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children”
In the text of a talk by Audrey Watters at the New Media Consortium’s (NMC) summer 2017 conference, Watters focuses on the technologies of the home and the stories we tell about them in order to “’defamiliarize’ a discussion of education technology.” As someone who has been critical of NMC’s Horizon Project, (which, according to their website, is “designed to identify and…
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:…
