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Infrastructural Sovereignty in the Black Atlantic
  • Dhanashree Thorat
  • globalDH
  • infrastructure
  • literary studies
  • race
  • Black digital humanities
  • postcolonial digital humanities
  • digital divide

In June 2019, Google announced a new undersea fiber-optic cable line connecting Portugal and South Africa and named it Equiano after Olaudah Equiano, an eighteenth-century Black man who was kidnapped from his Igbo village and sold into slavery. This article reads Google's infrastructural initiative against the grain of Equiano's autobiographical narrative to locate how the violent afterlives of slavery and colonialism manifest in and undergird Internet infrastructure projects today.

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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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    Minimizing Computing Maximizes Labor
    • Quinn Dombrowski
    • globalDH
    • access
    • tools
    • minimal computing
    • ethics
    • collaboration

      This paper focuses on the practical realities of implementing the most common minimal computing methods for web development.

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      Open, Equitable, and Minimal: Teaching Digital Scholarly Editing North and South
      • Raffaele Viglianti
      • Gimena del Rio Riande
      • Nidia Hernández
      • Romina De Léon
      • access
      • globalDH
      • pedagogy
      • project report
      • minimal computing

        In this paper, we present our preliminary reflections on whether minimal computing as a practice can extend beyond computing done under some technological constraints to serving as a common ground between different digital humanities research dynamics in the Global North and South.

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        Relocating Complexity: The Programming Historian and Multilingual Static Site Generation
        • Matthew Lincoln
        • Jennifer Isasi
        • Sarah Melton
        • François Dominic Laramée
        • project report
        • info architecture
        • project management
        • minimal computing
        • globalDH

          In this case study, we show how the challenges of maintaining a sustainable static-site architecture for the Programming Historian are deeply intertwined with the logistical challenges of expanding the original project into a multilingual set of publications.

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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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