postcolonial digital humanities: concepts and challenges

Adeline Koh!Richard Stockton College!

Postcolonial Digital Humanities

Concepts and Challenges

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#DHPoco: How it Began@adelinekoh

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#DHPoco

❖ Began with a Twitter hashtag"

❖ Coproduction with Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam), assistant prof. of world literature at Salem State University

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#DHPoco: How it Began@adelinekoh

Tumblr: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com!4

#DHPoco Comics@adelinekoh

#DHPoco Comics: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com/tagged/comics!5

#DHPoco Comics@adelinekoh

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dhpoco.org!7

Mission StatementTechnology is not culturally neutral"Technology contains global structural inequalities

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#DHPoco Core Tenets

productive intersections between !postcolonial studies and digital humanities

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IntersectionsMaster’s Tools"Master’s Language"Human versus Computational Languages

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#DHPoco❖ Emergent field of study"

❖ Draws from postcolonial studies and digital humanities"

❖ Goals:"

❖ Decolonizing digital products and cultures"

❖ Foregrounding anticolonial thought"

❖ Disrupting narratives of technological and global progress

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UN Women Awareness@adelinekoh

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Algorithms as Social Mirror?

❖ Anna Jobin (@annajobin) asks: “Who is in charge when algorithms are in charge?” "

❖ @annajobin: “Algorithms are more than a technological issue: they involve not only automated data analysis, but also decision-making.”

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Challenges

❖ Resistance"

❖ Privilege"

❖ Access"

❖ Language

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Projects#DHPoco website"dhpoco.org"!Accepting Submissions!

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MLA 2014

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Opportunities to Work with #DHPoco

❖ Submit to the #DHPoco website"

❖ Host a node of the Rewriting Wikipedia Project"

❖ MLA 2014"

❖ Possible DHPoco Special Interest Group in the ADHO (Assn of Digital Humanities Organizations)"

❖ Contact Adeline Koh (@adelinekoh) or Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam)

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