globaloutlookdh-l November 2019

globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca

9 participants
4 discussions

A Faustian bargain
by Domenico Fiormonte 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Dear all, as a DHer I was particularly struck by this report by Amnesty on surveillance giants: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol30/1404/2019/en/ "But despite the real value of the services they provide, Google and Facebook’s platforms come at a systemic cost. The companies’ surveillance-based business model forces people to make a Faustian bargain, whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse." As some of you already know, I've been criticizing the political and social role of these platforms since long ago. And I'm increasingly wondering how the DH community - and especially our global community - can remain silent in the face of documented violations of human rights. Beacause this is exactly what's going on. It's not just about data. Would make any sense to start a discussion here on how to respond as digital scholars to these (not anymore just epistemological or cultural) abuses? Or should we just go on, using Google and Facebook as those and other documented abuses did not exist? Sconsolatamente Vostro, Domenico

6 7

CfP: Digital Project Handbook
by Hannah Jacobs 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

**Please share. Apologies for cross-posting.** Call for Participation: Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (https://handbook.pubpub.org/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__handbook.pubpub.org_&d…>) is a peer-reviewed open resource designed to fill the gap between platform-specific tutorials and disciplinary discourse in digital humanities. Led by Beth Fischer (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Williams College Museum of Art) and Hannah Jacobs (Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab, Duke University), this project offers high-level recommendations for project planning, breakdowns of specific project methods in the form of case studies, and sample assignments to get instructors and students started. As the title suggests, the Handbook focuses on visual materials and visual methods of communication in digital humanities. The project leaders are seeking submissions of case studies and sample assignments to include in the Handbook: * Case studies are short overviews of digital projects that help Handbook readers see what such research initiatives actually look like in practice. * Sample assignments give an overview of how specific digital humanities techniques, methods, or approaches can be practiced in classroom settings at various levels. They are intended as a resource for content and as a way of estimating the time, resources, and steps required to implement student-centric digital humanities projects from lesson planning to assessment. For this first call, we are prioritizing submissions to the Archival<https://handbook.pubpub.org/archival>, Dimensional<https://handbook.pubpub.org/dimensional>, and Temporal<https://handbook.pubpub.org/temporal> sections of the Handbook, but we recognize that many projects fall into multiple of our project type categories<https://handbook.pubpub.org/project-types>. If your project fits with multiple project types, or if you’d like to submit to any other project type, please do not hesitate to do so. If you have questions about this, please contact digitalhandbook[at]duke.edu. We are accepting submissions from digital humanities practitioners in a broad range of educational and cultural heritage contexts including higher education institutions, K-12, libraries, archives, museums, and those independent of institutional affiliation. All submissions that are used on the site will be subject to our peer-review process and given full attribution, and we will link to your project website or publications. First round submission deadline: January 15, 2020 Submit your case study or sample assignment at https://handbook.pubpub.org/get-involved. Send direct questions to digitalhandbook[at]duke.edu<mailto:digitalhandbook@duke.edu>. --- Hannah L. Jacobs Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab | she/her/hers Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University hannah.jacobs(a)duke.edu<mailto:hannah.jacobs@duke.edu> | 919-660-6563 dukewired.org | @dukewired | fb.com/wiredduke MS Student, Information Science, UNC President, Triangle Digital Humanities Network<http://triangledh.org/>

1 0

Launch of the Digital Modern Languages Section on Modern Languages Open
by Spence, Paul 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Dear All The announcement below may interest people working at the intersection of (modern) languages/linguistic diversity and digital studies. Regards Paul Spence Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/ Naomi Wells Postdoctoral Research Associate in Translingual Communities and Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Launch of the Digital Modern Languages Section on Modern Languages Open Modern Languages Open, the Liverpool University Press open access platform for the publication of modern languages research, is delighted to announce the addition of a Digital Modern Languages section to the platform. The new section will provide a space to reflect on the transformations wrought by new media and technologies across a range of fields of study, from cultural, linguistic and historical studies to more pedagogical perspectives. Section Editors Paul Spence (King's College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research) said: "Our aim for the Section is to raise the visibility of digital teaching and research in Modern Languages, and to bring together distinct linguistic and cultural perspectives which challenge the dominance of Anglophone approaches to digital research." Joining the Section Editors, the Editorial Board includes Caroline Ardrey (University of Birmingham), Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester), Joe Dale (independent consultant), Orhan Elmaz (University of St Andrews), Mirjam Hauck (Open University) and Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool). The Editors welcome proposals for Special Issues as well as the submission of individual research articles. They are also committed to exploring new forms of publication, in terms of audience, genre and media, and welcome proposals for innovative forms of research output. Read the Press release here: https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2019/11/13/modern-languages-open-laun…

1 0

CFP: Digital Humanities Quarterly Minimal Computing Special Issue
by rrisam＠gmail.com 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Dear GO::DH Colleagues, Alex Gil and I are co-editing a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on Minimal Computing. Abstracts are due by January 30, 2020. We're committed to expanding the conversation and actively encourage submission from women, gender minorities, and practitioners around the world. We can accept submissions in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. We hope to see strong representation from our GO::DH colleagues! Sincerely, Roopika Risam and Alex Gil CFP: Minimal Computing Special Issue, Digital Humanities Quarterly http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/submissions/cfps.html Guest editors: Alex Gil, Columbia University Libraries Roopika Risam, Salem State University Abstracts due: January 30, 2020 Special Issue Description This special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will bring together essays and case studies on the promises and limitations of minimal computing from historical, practical, and theoretical perspectives, as well as within the context of specific research projects and their environments. Minimal computing can be defined as any form of digital or computational praxis done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, agency or other factors. Within the context of digital humanities scholarship, minimal computing refers to such computing practices used for teaching, research, and the construction and maintenance of a hybrid—digital and analog—scholarly and cultural record. Broadly construed, our scope is not limited to digital scholarship within the confines of universities and thus includes work undertaken in galleries, archives (institution and community-based), and libraries, as well as in collaboration with communities. In this issue, we strive for equity in gender and particularly encourage submission by women and gender minorities. We further actively seek to include at least one contribution from each of the following geographical areas: Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We are able to accept submissions in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Suggested Topics Topics can include but are not limited to: * Minimal hardware: aged machines, USBs, arduinos, simple circuits, etc. * Minimal computation: simple scripts, bash, tranductions, etc. * Static site generation * Teaching fundamentals of computing tied to subjects in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences * Forms of making-do in relation to computation: jugaad, hacktivism, DIY * Technological disobedience, i.e. using technologies in a way they were not intended * Marginal forms of knowledge and memory production involving computation * A critique of minimal or minimalist approaches undertaken by choice, rather than by necessity * Genealogies of minimalist forms of computation * Case studies on projects that address a multiplicity of costs (environment, bandwidth, access, maintenance, etc.) and needs (publishing, remembrance, resistance, etc.) with an overall reduction in complexity * Implications of minimal computing practices for universities, libraries and archives. Submission Formats The special issue will consist of two sections: The first section will be reserved for scholarly arguments grounded in history or well argued theoretical work on minimal computing, and the second section will include case studies in the form of specific projects or deep descriptions of environments that pose particular challenges or constraints for digital scholarship and strategic responses to them that incorporate minimal computing practices. In the first section, we welcome historical perspectives on minimal computing that place contemporary practices in dialogue with multiple documented genealogies; theoretical or strategic pieces that examine socio-technical implications of these practices at scale today; and critical or skeptical voices who are familiar with the implications of minimal computing and the informal discussions and practices that have taken place in the recent past. For the second section we welcome deep descriptions of projects and environments that include, extend, and complicate minimal computing practices, prompting meditations on difference and imperfect similarity between multiple projects or environments. These case studies should help mainstream audiences understand the granular thinking behind design decisions that respond to specific constraints and challenges. Submission Details We ask that you send your abstracts (max. 500 words) to rrisam(a)salemstate.edu and agil(a)columbia.edu by January 30, 2020 for a first round of review. Early inquiries are encouraged. We will notify all submitters of the status of their submission in late February. If you are invited to submit a full-length article (~4,000-8,000 words) or a case study (~2,500 words), we ask that they be submitted by June 30, 2020. -- Roopika Risam, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives Salem State University http://roopikarisam.com

1 0

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

globaloutlookdh-l November 2019