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
**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>.
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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/>
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
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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…
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.
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Roopika Risam, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education
Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives
Salem State University
http://roopikarisam.com