Issue 16.3

Black Digital Humanities in the Rising Generation

Edited by Alanna Prince, Cara Marta Messina, Izetta Autumn Mobley

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
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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.

​​Whole Self to the World: Creating Affective Worlds and Black Digital Intimacy in the Fandom of The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and Insecure
  • Brienne A. Adams
  • social media
  • media studies
  • race
  • Social Media
  • Fandom
  • Digital intimacy
  • Black feminism
EN

By examining interpersonal intimacy and interiority in cultural productions and digital fandoms, we see the demonstration of the pursuit of love, wholeness, and intimacy as labor that sustaining acts for and by Black communities.

Afro-Indigenous Women Healers in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas: A Decolonial Digital Humanities Project
  • Franny Gaede
  • Ana-Maurine Lara
  • Alaí Reyes-Santos
  • Kate Thornhill
  • race
  • indigenous
  • collaboration
  • glam
  • data curation
  • project report
  • area studies
  • Black digital humanities
  • Caribbean
  • Digital archive
EN

This interdisciplinary team placed the healers’ community at the center of the research project to publicly validate and share aspects of their knowledge with the healers, teachers, researchers, and students studying race, indigeneity, ethnobotanical medicinal healing, and intersectionality.

Digital Black Voices: Podcasting and the Black Public Sphere
  • Bryan M. Jenkins
  • Taryn K. Myers
  • race
  • media studies
  • sound
  • social justice
    EN

    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.

    Voluptuous Disintegration: A Future History of Black Computational Thought
    • Romi Ron Morrison
    • social justice
    • race
    • ethics
    • dh
    • history
    • fugitivity
    • computation
    • bias
    • blackness
    EN

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

    #BlackScholarJoy: The Labor, Resistance and Joy Practices of Black Women Graduate Students
    • Ravynn K. Stringfield
    • race
    • social media
    • dh
    • social justice
      EN

      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.

      Reaping the Harvest: Descendant Archival Practice to Foster Sustainable Digital Archives for Rural Black Women
      • Jazma Sutton
      • Kalani Craig
      • archives
      • data curation
      • race
      • cultural heritage
      • history
      • oral history
      • social media
      • project report
      • Black women
      • Black digital humanities
      • History harvest
      • Memory work
      • Digital community archive
      EN

      In a world that has always conceived of Black women in opposition to others, but never on her own terms, Remembering Freedom History Harvest builds a local Indiana historiography that relies less on resistant readings of archives and more on the community archives and memory work that join together in descendant archival practice as a way to generate Black women’s histories.

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

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

      Looking Backward and Forward: Pleasure, Joy, and the Future of Black DH
      • Kim Gallon
      • race
      • dh
        EN

        A brief examination of Black DH genealogy, its significant momements and events.

        Caribbean Futures in Black DH
        • Kaiama L. Glover
        • dh
        • race
        • area studies
        • globalDH
          EN

          Kaiama Glover writes on the future of Caribbean studies in Black DH.

          The Fulll Monty
          • Elizabeth Losh
          • dh
          • race
          • cultural criticism
          • Diversity
          • Professional associations
          • Origin story
          • Reflection
          EN

          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.

          Nutha Planets: On Telos and Digital Blackness
          • Louis M. Maraj
          • archives
          • data curation
          • race
          • social media
          • Digital blackness
          • telos
          • Sylvia Wynter
          EN

          I refuse the idea that the goal of Black digital technologies and their uses remains building some Black canon of texts, some particular archive of artifacts, a catalogue of ways of being in the world somehow authentically emerging from black experience.

          For the master’s [DH] tools will never dismantle the master’s house: An Alternative Primer for a Critical Black DH Praxis
          • Angel David Nieves
          • dh
          • race
          • cultural criticism
          • ethics
          • Black digital humanities
          • Reflection
          EN

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

          New Questions, Next Work
          • Bethany Nowviskie
          • race
          • cultural heritage
          • dh
          • infrastructure
          • cultural criticism
          • social justice
          • Digital humanities
          • Organizing
          • Reform
          • Mutual aid
          • Infrastructure
          • Reflection
          EN

          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.

          Our Time Is Now (It’s Always Been Our Time)
          • Roopika Risam
          • race
          • gender
          • cultural criticism
          • Black studies
          • Ethnic studies
          • Meta digital humanities
          • Reflection
          EN

          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.

          Critical Design as Theory, Experiment, and Data: A Sociologically-Informed Approach to Visualizing Networks of Loss
          • Peter L.Forberg
          • data visualization
          • tools
          • info architecture
            EN

            A look into website development which attempts to teach users about data creation and network visualization methods.

            Studying Large-Scale Behavioral Differences in Auschwitz-Birkenau with Simulation of Gendered Narratives
            • Gábor Mihály Tóth
            • Tim Hempel
            • Krishna Somandepalli
            • Shri Narayanan
            • history
            • gender
            • interdisciplinarity
            • data analytics
            • cultural heritage
            • collaboration
            • data modeling
            • oral history
              EN

              Applying methods and concepts from molecular physics to computationally approach over 6000 interviews of Aushwitz-Birkenau survivors.

              Algorithmic Close Reading: Using Semantic Triplets to Index and Analyze Agency in Holocaust Testimonies
              • Lizhou Fan
              • Todd Presner
              • history
              • data visualization
              • data analytics
              • semantic web
              • cultural heritage
              • oral history
              • Indexing Agency in Testimonies
              • Digital Humanities
              • Holocaust Studies
              • Information Extraction
              • Semantic Triplets
              EN

              Employing text analysis methods to analyze expressions of agency in Holocaust testimonies.

              Researching Spanish Dance in Time and Space: A GIS for La Argentina's Ballets Espagnols
              • Blanca Gómez Cifuentes
              • Carlos Fernández Freire
              • Isabel del Bosque González
              • Idoia Murga Castro
              • project report
              • performance
              • cultural heritage
              • history
              • archives
                EN

                Systematizing preserved sources of the Ballets Espagnols de Antonia Mercé La Argentina to create interactive maps which visualize their activity.

                Sight and Sound: Counter-mapping the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis
                • Lacey Schauwecker
                • archives
                • geospatial
                • data visualization
                • ecocriticism
                • ethics
                  EN

                  Investigating methods for counter-mapping and proposing a more multi-sensory practice.

                  Ethical and Effective Visualization of Knowledge Networks
                  • Chelsea Canon
                  • Douglas Boyle
                  • K. J. Hepworth
                  • ethics
                  • network
                  • data visualization
                  • ecocriticism
                    EN

                    A framework for critical practices of ethical and effective visualization networks.

                    Heterochronologies: a platform for correlation and research in temporal graphics
                    • Johanna Drucker
                    • Peter Polack
                    • Pietro Santachiara
                    • semantic web
                    • history
                    • data visualization
                      EN

                      Describing the factors which led to the development of the Heterchonologies project, and its digital platform "Time Capsule."

                      Networked Cross-Dressing: A Digital Refashioning of Shakespearean Gender Subversion
                      • Erik Simpson
                      • Hannah L.P. Brown
                      • Lana Sabb
                      • Olly Shortell
                      • James Lee
                      • gender
                      • network
                      • history
                      • performance
                      • data visualization
                        EN

                        Using network theory to analyze cross-dressing in Shakesperean drama.