For our weekly meetings with Dr. Robertson, the DH fellows each find an interesting new post about digital humanities to share with the group. Over the course of the year, we’re supposed to track some sort of theme or trend. Last year, I focused on posts and projects that work to Indigenize and/or decolonize digital humanities. This year, I’ve followed…
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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…
Using PressForward as a Graduate Student
The ability to discuss and nominate content in PressForward makes it a valuable tool for groups producing collaborative online publications, but PressForward can also come in handy for individuals working on their personal websites. I use the plugin on my own WordPress site (most prominently in a section I call “DH Reads”), so I’m sharing my experiences and giving some…
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…
