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…
decolonizing DH
DH Read: “Tour Rio De Janeiro’s Oldest Slave Port With This New App”
I was listening to NPR on my way home from work the other day and heard a story about The Museum of Yesterday, an immersive app for exploring the history of Rio de Janeiro’s recently unearthed slave dock, Valongo Wharf. The name of the app is a spin on Rio’s new Museum of Tomorrow, a $55 million dollar tourist draw…
Indigenizing and Decolonizing Digital Humanities
All year, the DH fellows have been looking through the aggregated content of DHNow and selecting interesting posts to discuss at our weekly meeting with Dr. Robertson. The process has been a great introduction to the variety of people, projects, and discourses that make up the field of digital humanities, and it’s enabled me to identify and track key themes and trends…
