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…
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DH Read: “What do we do about archival violence?”
As a student of Native American history, I am well aware of the ways that the quantification of people, especially by the state, has been used to treat humans like objects, to strip them of humanity. This history is at the root of my discomfort with and skepticism of how digital/computational methods are sometimes used. It was interesting, then, to…
DH Read: “Why We Need To Archive The Web In Order To Preserve Twitter”
I’ve been concerned about how much of what we see on the internet today will still be accessible to future historians of the 21st century ever since I read an article on the digital dark age for an independent study in college (fittingly, I can’t find it now). The article argued that although it might seem like historians studying the…
