Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environmental crises; a global pandemic; and the deepening of austerity regimes in U.S. higher education. This fourth volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series provides a look not just at where DH stands but also where it is going.
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 is a brilliant collection of provocative essays by many of our moment’s richest thinkers and doers in the fields of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, queer, and multilingual digital humanities. As a collective call to action, this volume is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the purpose of the humanities today.
Jim Casey and Gabrielle Foreman, codirectors, Colored Conventions Project
Where do the digital humanities stand in 2023? Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environmental crises; a global pandemic; and the deepening of austerity regimes in U.S. higher education. Providing a look not just at where DH stands but also where it is going, this fourth volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series features both established scholars and emerging voices pushing the field’s boundaries, asking thorny questions, and providing space for practitioners to bring to the fore their research and their hopes for future directions in the field. Carrying forward the themes of political and social engagement present in the series throughout, it includes crucial contributions to the field—from a vital forum centered on the voices of Black women scholars, manifestos from feminist and Latinx perspectives on data and DH, and a consideration of Indigenous data and artificial intelligence, to essays that range across topics such as the relation of DH to critical race theory, capital, and accessibility.
Contributors: Harmony Bench, Ohio State U; Christina Boyles, Michigan State U; Megan R. Brett, George Mason U; Michelle Lee Brown, Washington State U; Patrick J. Burns, New York U; Kent K. Chang, U of California, Berkeley; Rico Devara Chapman, Clark Atlanta U; Marika Cifor, U of Washington; María Eugenia Cotera, U of Texas; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Marlene L. Daut, U of Virginia; Quinn Dombrowski, Stanford U; Kate Elswit, U of London; Nishani Frazier, U of Kansas; Kim Gallon, Brown U; Patricia Garcia, U of Michigan; Lorena Gauthereau, U of Houston; Masoud Ghorbaninejad, University of Victoria; Abraham Gibson, U of Texas at San Antonio; Nathan P. Gibson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College; Hilary N. Green, Davidson College; Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist U; Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue U Libraries; Jeanelle Horcasitas, DigitalOcean; Christy Hyman, Mississippi State U; Arun Jacob, U of Toronto; Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins U and Harvard U; Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins U; Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Duke U; Mills Kelly, George Mason U; Spencer D. C. Keralis, Digital Frontiers; Zoe LeBlanc, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia U; James Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Alison Martin, Dartmouth College; Linda García Merchant, U of Houston Libraries; Rafia Mirza, Southern Methodist U; Mame-Fatou Niang, Carnegie Mellon U; Jessica Marie Otis, George Mason U; Marisa Parham, U of Maryland; Andrew Boyles Petersen, Michigan State U Libraries; Emily Pugh, Getty Research Institute; Olivia Quintanilla, UC Santa Barbara; Jasmine Rault, U of Toronto Scarborough; Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Maura Seale, U of Michigan; Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe, Normandale Community College; Astrid J. Smith, Stanford U Libraries; Maboula Soumahoro, U of Tours; Mel Stanfill, U of Central Florida; Tonia Sutherland, U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Gabriela Baeza Ventura, U of Houston; Carolina Villarroel, U of Houston; Melanie Walsh, U of Washington; Hēmi Whaanga, U of Waikato; Bridget Whearty, Binghamton U; Jeri Wieringa, U of Alabama; David Joseph Wrisley, NYU Abu Dhabi.
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 is a brilliant collection of provocative essays by many of our moment’s richest thinkers and doers in the fields of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, queer, and multilingual digital humanities. As a collective call to action, this volume is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the purpose of the humanities today.
Jim Casey and Gabrielle Foreman, codirectors, Colored Conventions Project
Contents
Introduction: The Digital Humanities, Moment to Moment
Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein
Part I. Openings and Interventions
1. Toward a Political Economy of Digital Humanities
Matthew N. Hannah
2. All the Work You Do Not See: Labor, Digitizers, and the Foundations of Digital Humanities
Astrid J. Smith and Bridget Whearty
3. Right-to-Left (RTL) Text: Digital Humanists Plus Half a Billion Users
Masoud Ghorbaninejad, Nathan P. Gibson, and David Joseph Wrisley
4. Relation-Oriented AI: Why Indigenous Protocols Matter for the Digital Humanities
Michelle Lee Brown, Hēmi Whaanga, and Jason Edward Lewis
5. A U.S. Latinx Digital Humanities Manifesto
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, María Eugenia Cotera, Linda García Merchant, Lorena Gauthereau, and Carolina Villarroel
Part II. Theories and Approaches
6. The Body Is Not (Only) a Metaphor: Rethinking Embodiment in DH
Harmony Bench and Kate Elswit
7. The Queer Gap in Cultural Analytics
Kent K. Chang
8. The Feminist Data Manifest-NO: An Introduction and Four Reflections
Tonia Sutherland, Marika Cifor, T. L. Cowan, Jas Rault, and Patricia Garcia
9. Black Is Not the Absence of Light: Restoring Black Visibility and Liberation to Digital Humanities
Nishani Frazier, Christy Hyman, and Hilary N. Green
10. Digital Humanities in the Deepfake Era
Abraham Gibson
11. Operationalizing Surveillance Studies in the Digital Humanities
Christina Boyles, Andrew Boyles Petersen, and Arun Jacob
Part III. Disciplines and Institutions
12. A Voice Interrupts: Digital Humanities as a Tool to Hear Black Life
Alison Martin
13. Addressing an Emergency: The “Pragmatic Tilt” Required of Scholarship, Data, and Design by the Climate Crisis
Jo Guldi
14. Digital Art History as Disciplinary Practice
Emily Pugh
15. Building and Sustaining Africana Digital Humanities at HBCUs
Rico Devara Chapman
16. A Call to Research Action: Transnational Solidarity for Digital Humanists
Olivia Quintanilla and Jeanelle Horcasitas
17. Game Studies, Endgame?
Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill
Part IV. Pedagogies and Practices
18. The Challenges and Possibilities of Social Media Data: New Directions in Quantitative Literary Studies
Melanie Walsh
19. Language Is Not a Default Setting: Countering DH’s English Problem
Quinn Dombrowski and Patrick J. Burns
20. Librarians’ Illegible Labor: Toward a Documentary Practice of Digital Humanities
Spencer D. C. Keralis, Rafia Mirza, and Maura Seale
21. Reframing the Conversation: Digital Humanists, Disabilities, and Accessibility
Megan R. Brett, Jessica Marie Otis, and Mills Kelly
22. From Precedents to Collective Action: Realities and Recommendations for Digital Dissertations in History
Zoe LeBlanc, Celeste Týờng Vy Sharpe, and Jeri Wieringa
23. Critique Is the Steam: Reorienting Critical Digital Humanities across Disciplines
James Malazita
Part V. Forum: #UnsilencedPast
Kaiama L. Glover
24. Being Undisciplined: Black Womanhood in Digital Spaces
A Conversation with Marlene L. Daut and Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
25. How This Helps Us Get Free: Telling Black Stories through Technology
A Conversation with Kim Gallon and Marisa Parham
26. “Blackness” in France: Taking Up Mediatized Space
A Conversation with Maboula Soumahoro and Mame-Fatou Niang
27. The Power to Create: Building Alternative (Digital) Worlds
A Conversation with Martha S. Jones and Jessica Marie Johnson
Acknowledgments
Contributors
