In a post providing her Skype remarks from the Colonial and Postcolonial DH roundtable at the College of William and Mary’s Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Conference, Roopika Risam argues that challenging colonialism in the “digital cultural record” requires “significant attention to how we are designing projects, framing the material in them, and managing the data that is part…
DH Read: “Where is the Humanity in the Computer Science Curriculum?”
This post by Maha Bali (selected as an Editors’ Choice piece for Digital Humanities Now) expresses something I’ve thought about before but have rarely seen discussed. At a time when some people are calling for everyone to learn to code, Bali asks the important question, “Why is all the focus on teaching lay people how to code, and not teaching computer…
DH Read: “Twitter’s Response to ‘The Digital-Humanities Bust'”
Over the last few years, DHNow staff have observed a declining number of blog posts that make some sort of insightful argument about digital humanities (I have discussed this previously in this post). One of the explanations that we have identified is the shift from the blogosphere to Twitter as the preferred platform for conversations about digital humanities. In my opinion,…
DH Read: “The Suffrage Postcard Project: A Replica Archive”
Although the suffragist cat postcard is fantastic, it’s not the only reason this post became an Editors’ Choice piece on Digital Humanities Now. Ana Stevenson draws on Professor Victoria Haskins’ idea of a replica archive. According to Stevenson, “Haskins’ research is concerned with Indigenous domestic servants in Australia and the United States – women whose lives, she rightly notes, are often…
