• 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?

• Matthew S. Hopper

• dh
• ethics
• history
• social justice

• slavery

This paper examines ethical issues related to the use of the registers of liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean for historical research.

• Sarah Ciston
• Zach Mann
• Mark C. Marino
• Jeremy Douglass

• code studies
• cultural criticism
• machine learning
• race
• social justice

• predictive policing
• critical code studies
• anti-racism
• software studies

In Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Ciston, Mann, Marino, and Douglass perform a critical code studies reading of CivicScape predictive policing software, detailing the racialized codes of civic control under the cloak of inaccessible AI machinations.

• Angela Sutton
• Jessica Power

• archives
• collaboration
• data analytics
• data curation
• databases
• digitization
• ethics
• semantic web
• interdisciplinarity
• race
• social justice
• network
• public history
• social justice

• race studies

This article explores the use of community engagement and the principles behind linked data to create a spatial history database that both serves a local Black community in the US South and makes accessible the sources that complicate our understanding of the Civil War.

• Ravynn K. Stringfield

• race
• social media
• dh
• social justice

Exploring the particular ways in which Black graduate students utilize the digital to transform their separate experiences into collectives and engage in methods of resisting and engaging in carework.

• Bryan M. Jenkins
• Taryn K. Myers

• race
• media studies
• sound
• social justice

This study places Black podcasting within the context of more traditional forms of Black media to examine the themes of community-building, resistance, and voice.

• 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.

• 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.

• Romi Ron Morrison

• social justice
• race
• ethics
• dh
• history

• fugitivity
• computation
• bias
• blackness

A commentary on Black Computational Thought as a unique critical intervention.

• Christina Boyles
• Andy Boyles Petersen

• access
• ethics
• social justice
• minimal computing

This article has examines notions of precarity within the Makers by Mail project to interrogate the relationship between minimal computing methodologies and academic austerity.

• Doran Larson

• social justice
• archives
• reading
• history
• public history

This article proposes that there exists a broad, well established, but underappreciated mid-range manner of reading that stands between traditional close reading and computer-aided distant reading of first-person witness testimony.

• Nanditha Narayanamoorthy

• social media
• social justice
• ethics
• network

Review of Zeynep Tufekci’s Twitter and Tear Gas (2017)

• Alison Martin

• race
• social justice
• geospatial
• sound
• history
• public history
• anthropology

This article uses ethnography and computational soundscape to listen to processes of gentrification in Washington, DC.

• George Aaron Broadwell
• Moisés García Guzmán
• Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
• Felipe H. Lopez
• May Helena Plumb
• Mike Zarafonetis

• collaboration
• history
• cultural heritage
• digital libraries
• indigenous
• language studies
• translation
• access
• social justice

• digital schoalrship
• digital humanities
• Colonial Mexico
• Zapotec
• archives
• collaoration
• humanidades digitales
• México colonial
• zapoteco
• archivos
• colaboración
• colaboración

This article discusses the Ticha project which is a digital text explorer that provides access to media and documents associated with the Zapotec community.

• James W. Malazita
• Ezra J. Teboul
• Hined Rafeh

• dh
• social justice
• project report
• materialisms
• gender
• philosophy

This article explores the situatedness of DH labs.

• Sarita Albagli
• Hesley Py
• Allan Yu Iwama

• data visualization
• geospatial
• tools
• info architecture
• infrastructure
• area studies
• social justice
• access

A critical and systematic review on information geovisualization via a Brazilian prototype platform.

• 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

• Kelly Baker Josephs

• dh
• social justice
• cultural criticism
• area studies

Responding to the tendency to focus on “DH in the moment,” an essay from DYCDH week 2018.

• Dr. Jeanie Austin

• project report
• social justice
• archives
• gender

What can be learned from the institutional FemTechNet archive.

• Tarez Samra Graban
• Paul Marty
• Allen Romano
• Micah Vandegrift

• collaboration
• social justice
• dh
• ethics

Introduction to a special issue of DHQ on Invisible Labor