On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Lee Skallerup Bessette <lee.bessette@gmail.com> wrote:

I think Ernesto brings up a good point. Is it possible to create a clearinghouse of sorts for these kinds of publications? I don't want to say "journal" but a place where we can encourage these kinds of presentations/papers to be shared and accessed.

I hesitate to say a Global DH blog, but basically I'm saying a Global DH blog.

I really appreciate getting these as well (especially b/c a group of us are in the process of writing our DH2013 presentation which touch on these very issues) and I want to be able to cite/refer to the most recent writings/musings on the issue.

Thanks everyone.

Lee

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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks very much indeed to David for sharing this link. I recall having read the title ""Say 'Digital Humanities' One More Time" previously, will try to dig out if it was the same paper.... the abstract sounds great. Hopefully this talk/paper will be made available in full soon? Otherwise, if we were not in Berlin, it seems we've missed it... ;-)

Best

Ernesto

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:06 PM, David Golumbia <dgolumbia@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear list members,

I've been tied up with a number of things lately and been unable to complete a response to the earlier thread about multilingualism and globalization, which I hope to do soon, as I feel that some of the most important issues have not yet been addressed thoroughly enough.

While reading the live tweets (hashtag #rp13) of the re:publica 13 conference now taking place in Berlin, I ran across this abstract for a paper by Nishant Shah, who directs the research portfolio at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore (http://cis-india.org/author/nishant). It seems to me to speak to some of the issues that have been raised as well as some that have not, and that I hope we can discuss more fully in the future.

David

"Say 'Digital Humanities' One More Time: Technology, affect and learning in emerging information societies"

Nishant Shah

One of the ironies of the local-global divide is that certain practices within the local sphere often precede the global nomenclatures that are assigned to them. ‘Digital Humanities’ is a prime example of this phenomenon where a clutch of practices which emerged with the rise of digital technologies and their integration into the national policies on higher education and learning, are now retrospectively understood as ‘Digital Humanities’. So even as the term was gaining currency in the European and North American context, becoming one of the buzzwords through which new conditions of pedagogy and education were imagined within the Universities in the North-West, it had almost no takers in the emerging knowledge industries of South Asia in general, and India in particular.

Within this context, it has now become natural, for all talks about education to eventually veer towards infrastructure. There is enough reason for that, when we look at the pitiful lack of resources in the country vis-à-vis the size of the population, and many of the larger problems endemic in higher education today, are tied down to this massive infrastructure deficit.Simultaneously, there has always been a severe fragmentation and compartmentalisation of knowledge systems within the academia, which is not restricted to only the Humanities which is increasingly facing the pressure to make itself relevant and produce work-forces for a global finance driven market.

The questions of professionalising and mainstreaming humanities and social sciences education are almost universal right now, and indeed, one of the ambitions of Digital Humanities projects which are seeking to find validity for education that does not prepare a global information work-force. The realignment of the market with the education system, has been critiqued by theorists of neo-liberal globalisation, who have pointed out how it enables state disinvestment from education and the privatisation of learning resources. However, even in these existing critiques of Digital Humanities (whether they use that term or not), there seems to be a consensual agreement that infrastructure building is necessary and must happen.

This talk, critically examines the implications of adopting Digital Humanities as a principle in emerging information societies, and drawing from experiments with students in 9 undergraduate colleges in India, examines the ways in which it needs to reconsider its relationship with the more accepted ideas of infrastructure, usage, adoption and learning.

https://re-publica.de/en/sessions/say-digital-humanities-one-more-time-technology-affect-and-learning-emerging-information-so

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