Digital Humanities Summer Institute #DHSI18 Day 4 [Morning] Making Choices About Your Data

Making Choices About Your Data
Digital Humanities Summer Institute #DHSI18 Day 4 (Morning)
Paige Morgan and Yvonne Lam

 Housekeeping

The Shock of the Old (D. Edgerton) - People adopt new tech but the old runs alongside for many reasons. (I'd also recommend The Diffusion of Innovations on top of this.)

Class discussion of D'Ignazio and Klein's "Feminist Data Visualization."
Colonialist legacies of tabular data. Even JSON's tree structure is hierarchical. What should we use?
Jacqueline Wernimont's Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media. 
Donella Meadows - leverage points. Instead of massive interventions (which can be most temporary and ephemeral), smaller interventions can be most powerful.
Bethany's piece on "The eternal September" of DH - when do you stop explaining yourself to the new but not establish gatekeeping. People have to discover for themselves and discover where they are.
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Visit #Femdh class

TVMeals - what if we center what is treated as peripheral in DH work
Tacit Knowledge
Values
Material
Embodied
Affective
Labor-intensive
Situated

Problematizing the citation here, comes out of Black feminist work.
Affective way in which we use tech - "ways in which tech use can orient ourselves as people emotionally towards things. Associating feelings w Google search imagining it as neutral, and if you are challenged you become protective because you are emotionally tied to that tech as holding a certain value in your personal belief system. Acknowledging we are people that exist as humans and emotions tie themselves to the tools we use and it makes us react to their use and denial of use in interesting ways"

Affective elements can be made invisible by interface. Affective component of working with digital work/tools and learning new things. Obvious forms of incompleteness, frustration, fuck-up-ed-ness, but how do we talk about our feelings about these things (also pleasure and joy)?

DH has brought in funding but has made for more kinds of precarious positions in academia, so people feel affectively more precarious, has institutional effects that have affect.

Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression 
Mimi Onuoha's "What are missing datasets (and why do they matter)?"
Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities - Book coming out OA shortly.
Also Disrupting Digital Humanities by Jesse Stamill (sp?)

Who gets to occupy spaces? Do your people even have keys? Is it a space for optics or should it be used?
What kinds of DH spaces would you like to see? What kinds of DH participants on your campus? How do you think about your own data differently?













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