(As the series moves forward, each annual volume will feature a forum on a major issue currently under debate in the field.)
Rather than requiring that the tool-building work of an ImagePlot or a Bookworm, to name two recent contributions to that domain, speak directly to their objects of analysis, we might explore how the creation and deployment of such tools perform distinct but equally valuable functionsâfunctions that must be considered in relation to each other to achieve their maximal effect. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Some of these titles would not feel at all out of place in the seminar series of the DDH of today.
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9. Now is a time when we can model how research undertaken by students and scholars who are both technically adept and critically informed can matter, not only to our chosen fields but also to the world at large. Across the lines of discussion that follow, we see our colleagues trace out possibilities and problems, paradigms and potentialities. At the same time, “critical research about the digital” recognises the reality that “the digital” itself has become a subject of research – the elements of society and culture (increasingly all of these, at least in the West) which is mediated by digital technology and environment. In a year that saw renewed attention to the entrenched nature of state-authorized violence against black bodies at the same time that scholars who spoke out against these and other acts of systemic injustice found job offers revoked, the stakes for a more explicitly political digital humanities have been raised.
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On the surface of things, not much. Brennan, Sheila K. âPublic, First.â In. As this work progresses, we must take care to acknowledge the myriad forms of labor that underlie it. Media design professor David Carroll, for instance, was the one to the file the lawsuits that helped bring to light the problematic data mining of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the 2016 election. âAnd so we stare at the pit in the earth and think we both do and donât know what sculpture is,â she observed.
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Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. This particular vision has emerged from our realization that the challenges currently associated with the digital humanities involve a shift from congregating in the big tent to practicing DH at a field-specific level, where DH work confronts disciplinary habits of mind. In this volume and elsewhere, scholars have begun to suggest that the digital humanities owes its existence to more than one source. Standing before the landscape of the digital humanities and contemplating the present contours of the field, we find ourselves at a similar moment of simultaneous knowing and unknowing, rootedness and dislocation.
More broadly, in our choice of section titlesââDH and Its Methods,â âDH and Its Practices,â âDH and the Disciplines,â and âDH and Its Criticsââwe aim to reflect the expanded contours of the field. As we look out into the world in 2019, we see much that is damaged.
To the degree that, in advance of the present moment, our authors demonstrated a commitment to advocacy and engagement, their words represent the embers of a fire that has since burst into flame.
âWhy Are the Digital Humanities So White? A key moment of the Department’s more recent history was 2015, when the King’s Digital Lab was established, providing an environment for much of the developer and analyst expertise that had previously resided in DDH, and before that CCH. McGrail, Anne. In a year that saw renewed attention to the entrenched nature of state-authorized violence against black bodies at the same time that scholars who spoke out against these and other acts of systemic injustice found job offers revoked, the stakes for a more explicitly political digital humanities have been raised.
Here, scope and scale converge as we envision a measure for the field that is not merely additive, but instead delineates its capacious frame. By entering into conversation with our institutional administrations about how those who contribute this crucial work can reap the benefits of more stable employment, we can do our part to shore up the university itself, which. In this volume, we take up the issues associated with a digital humanities at scale at two levels.