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Naming Names of Enslaved People in the Senegal Liberations Project
  • Richard Roberts
  • Rebecca Wall
  • ethics
  • dh
  • social justice
  • race
  • slavery
  • liberation

Given the prevailing stigma and potential violence against people of slave descent in West Africa, what are scholars' ethical and political responsibilities in using the names of enslaved people who actively sought their liberation at the hands of French colonial officials during the second half of the nineteenth century in public-facing digital humanities projects?

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Unjust Readings: Against the New New Criticism
  • Paul Barrett
  • cultural criticism
  • dh
  • literary studies
  • Distant Reading

The article challenges the retro-humanist critique of the digital humanities, arguing that these critiques constitute idealized, unsituated criticism that depend upon a narrow conception of the proper questions, methods, and objects of analysis for the humanities.

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Bridging the Gap of Exhibition Design, Instructional Design, and the Learning Sciences for the Future of Black Digital Humanities
  • Rebecca Y. Bayeck
  • race
  • area studies
  • dh
  • Black digital humanities
  • learning sciences
  • instructional design
  • exhibition design

Black DH has at its core principles and practices that call for equity and inclusion. This article speaks to how the dialogue between Black DH and the fields of learning sciences, instructional design, and exhibition design can create new frameworks for inclusion, design, and learning for all.

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The Model is the Message: Modelling and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
  • Amanda Furiasse
  • data modeling
  • dh
  • virtual reality
  • digital arts and humanities
  • computational studies
  • museology
  • digital museology

In her review of Modelling Between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice, Amanda Furiasse delves into the dynamic potential of modeling not just as a method, but as a transformative medium for humanities research, illuminating how modeling can empower scholars to adapt and thrive in an era of AI chatbots, VR simulations, and deepfakes.

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What Counts? Digital Humanities Pedagogy Seminars as Teaching
  • Crystal Hall
  • Lauren Tilton
  • Griffin Ng
  • collaboration
  • pedagogy
  • dh
  • labor
  • seminars
  • experimentation
  • intersectional feminism
  • values-based DH

In the teaching-research-service triad of labor in higher education, reframing digital humanities pedagogy workshops as teaching brings us closer to the goals of the field.

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Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Taxonomy development as a site of negotiation and compromise in an interdisciplinary software development project
  • Jennifer C. Edmond
  • Alejandro Benito Santos
  • Michelle Doran
  • Roberto Therón
  • Michał Kozak
  • Cezary Mazurek
  • Eveline Wandl-Vogt
  • Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda
  • collaboration
  • project report
  • interdisciplinarity
  • dh
  • data curation
  • markup

    We discuss how the cross-disciplinary design of a taxonomy of sources of uncertainty in Digital Humanities (DH) became not just an instrument to organise data, but also a tool to negotiate and build compromises between different communities of practice.

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    Language, Materiality, and Digital Neapolitanitá
    • Cristina Migliaccio
    • web
    • moving images
    • globalDH
    • dh
    • cultural heritage

      This article explores how usages of Neapolitan-Italian language on YouTube might counter the linguistic and cultural subordination of Neapolitans.

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      Black Digital Humanities for the Rising Generation
      • 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.

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      My DH Present, Past, & Future
      • Moya Bailey
      • project report
      • social media
      • race
      • social justice
      • dh
      • Origin story
      • Race
      • Reflection

      We were feminists, womanists, radical women of color finding our voices in the liminal spaces of the internet and it was beautiful.

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      New Questions, Next Work
      • 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.

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      The Fulll Monty
      • 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.

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      Ensuring Minimal Computing Serves Maximal Connection
      • 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.

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        Aproximações ao cenário das humanidades digitais no Brasil
        • Cláudio José Silva Ribeiro
        • Suemi Higuchi
        • Luis Antonio Coelho Ferla
        • dh
        • area studies
        • globalDH
        • project report
        • Digital Humanities
        • Science and Technology
        • HDRio2018

        A Portuguese language article which casts a panoramic glance at Digital Humanities initiatives in Brazil.

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        Ler a prosa do mundo hoje
        • Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
        • materialisms
        • reading
        • digital
        • dh
        • philosophy
        • media studies

          Material conditions of digital text diffusion and their impact on new forms of reading.

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          Towards 3D Scholarly Editions: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge
          • Costas Papadopoulos
          • Susan Schreibman
          • history
          • geospatial
          • ar
          • data modeling
          • data visualization
          • project report
          • dh
          • Virtual worlds
          • digital (re)constructions
          • 3D modelling
          • digital scholarly editions
          • Unity 3D
          • WebGL
          • battle
          • Easter Rising

          A case study on methods for digitally modelling complex spatial events with inspiration from digital scholarly editions.

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