• Andrew Prescott

• philosophy
• race
• dh
• cultural criticism

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bias
• Machine Learning
• Big Data

This article surveys the ways in which issues of race and gender bias emerge in projects involving the use of predictive analytics, big data and artificial intelligence (AI).

• David M. Berry

• tools
• users
• cultural criticism
• digital

• Explainability
• Tool Criticism
• Digital infrastructures
• infrasomatization

I suggest recent moves to assuage worries over the opaque and threatening potential of computation, termed explainability, might contribute to tool criticism within digital humanities.

• Stephen Ramsay

• cultural criticism
• code studies
• philosophy
• tools

• politics
• software
• cultural studies

If it is true that our tool-building cannot define or predict the specific political arrangements that may later arise, we should perhaps be most circumspect not when we are tempted to imagine our efforts to be neutral, but rather when we imagine our tools to be acts of resistance or outright political activism.

• Karin van Es

• cultural criticism
• tools
• digital
• infrastructure
• cultural criticism

• Tool criticism
• Digital methods
• Methodology
• Digital infrastructures

This paper explores tool criticism – a critical attitude required of digital humanities scholars when working with computational tools and digital infrastructures.

• Martin Holmes
• Janelle Jenstad
• J. Matthew Huculak

• project management
• archives
• dh
• cultural criticism
• infrastructure

• project resiliency
• endings
• introduction

The end is where we start from.

• Alanna Prince
• Cara Marta Messina

• dh
• race
• cultural criticism
• ethics
• publishing

• Black digital humanities
• Antiracist editorial practices
• Black studies

The focus of Black DH and this special issue is not to define Black DH, but rather spotlight the limitless, interdisciplinary nature of Black DH and Black scholarship.

• Angel David Nieves

• dh
• race
• cultural criticism
• ethics

• Black digital humanities
• Reflection

I propose that we in the Black DH community consider these ten principles of practice.

• Bethany Nowviskie

• race
• cultural heritage
• dh
• infrastructure
• cultural criticism
• social justice

• Digital humanities
• Organizing
• Reform
• Mutual aid
• Infrastructure
• Reflection

We have pathways forward and tantalizing hints, but can scarcely imagine what it will mean to shift from extractive modes of digital research and curation — quantifying, fragmenting, pinning, hoarding — to ones that are generative, healing, open-ended, and which make us whole.

• Roopika Risam

• race
• gender
• cultural criticism

• Black studies
• Ethnic studies
• Meta digital humanities
• Reflection

Instead, the question we should be examining is how addressing the operations of race — and its relationship to gender, sexuality, nation, disability, and colonialism, among others — is nothing less than a matter of scholarly integrity and must be put at the center of digital humanities inquiry.

• Elizabeth Losh

• dh
• race
• cultural criticism

• Diversity
• Professional associations
• Origin story
• Reflection

Instead it might be more useful to invest energies in regional digital humanities organizations that treat access-oriented institutions and communities of color with more respect.

• Yasamin Rezai

• gender
• data modeling
• data analytics
• ethics
• cultural criticism

A review of Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein's recent work: Data Feminism.

• Grant Wythoff

• dh
• minimal computing
• cultural criticism
• collaboration

This article first takes a broader view of minimalism to register several problematic echoes of minimal computing among digital detoxers and disaster survivalists in intensities ranging from Luddism to asceticism.

• Onyekachi Henry Ibekwe

• history
• race
• ethics
• cultural criticism
• data modeling
• data curation

A review of Roopika Risam's recent work: New Digital Worlds

• Edward Larkey

• moving images
• cultural criticism
• history
• area studies
• annotation

A comparison of the Quebec sitcom Un Gars, Une Fille ("A Guy and a Girl") to its German remake using Adobe Premiere Pro annotation software and in the context of post-WWII emotional repression.

• Tanya E. Clement
• Liz Fischer

• music
• annotation
• access
• sound
• cultural criticism

This short article introduces audiation as an alternate theoretical framing for articulating the significance of personal literary annotations.

• Jason Mittell

• moving images
• images
• cultural criticism
• digitization
• sound
• visual art

Following upon the strain of digital humanities practice that Mark Sample terms the deformed humanities, this essay subjects a single film to a series of deformations: the classic musical Singin' in the Rain.

• Richard Snyder

• media studies
• cultural criticism
• ecocriticism
• materialisms
• communications

Richard Snyder reviews Finite Media (2016) by Sean Cubitt.

• Lawrence Evalyn
• C. E. M. Henderson
• Julia King
• Jessica Lockhart
• Laura Mitchell
• Suzanne Conklin Akbari

• project report
• social media
• cultural criticism
• glam
• images

The authors consider the affective community created by a shared Slack workspace, as well as the ways in which it erodes the boundaries of the personal and professional.

• Luis Ferla
• Cecily Raynor

• globalDH
• infrastructure
• standards
• cultural criticism
• graphic design
• geospatial
• data curation
• ethics
• area studies

DHQ presents its Portuguese language special edition.

• DHQ editorial team

• race
• ethics
• cultural criticism

A statement of DHQ's position and actions in relation to structural racism.

• Sharon Block

• history
• databases
• race
• social justice
• metadata
• gender
• area studies
• cultural criticism
• machine learning

Examines the representation of women and minority groups in JSTOR's topical metadata

• Elizabeth Callaway
• Jeffrey Turner
• Heather Stone
• Adam Halstrom

• project report
• nlp
• dh
• metadata
• cultural criticism
• gender

Topic modeling warm invitations and gatekeeping in the digital humanities.