Intersections in Digital Humanities
- There are a number of intersections researchers of Digital Humanities must face in the design and development of digital projects. In this section, we've compiled readings and resources that expand the conversation around these intersections in the hopes that they be considered at the forefront of DH scholarship. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know!
Accessibility in DH
- "Design Meets Disability" by Graham Pullin and Jeff Higginbotham Augmentative and Alternative Communication, vol. 26, no. 4, 2010, pp. 226-229.
- "Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities" by George H. Williams from Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
- "How People with Disabilities Use the Web" Web Accessibility Initiative Web Accessibility Initiative. W3C, 2013.
Tools/Resources:
- FluidFluid is an open, collaborative project to improve the user experience and inclusiveness of open source software.
- GSA Government-Wide IT Accessibility ProgramDetails Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
- Web Accessibility Evaluation ToolsWeb accessibility evaluation tools are software programs or online services that help you determine if web content meets accessibility guidelines.
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops standards and support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility.
Gender & Sexuality
Feminist in a Software Lab by Call Number: AZ195 .M35 2018ISBN: 9780674728943Publication Date: 2018-02-19
- "A Feminist Digital Humanities Pedagogy Beyond the Classroom" by Jessica Despain Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, vol. 26, no. 1, 2016, pp. 64-73.
- "Gender and Vernaculars in Digital Humanities and World Literature" by Jenny Bergenmar and Katarina Leppänen NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 25, no. 4, 2017, pp. 232-246.
- "When Computers Were Women" by Jennifer S. Light Technology and Culture, vol. 40, no. 3, 1999, pp. 455-483.
Issues of Race in DH
- "All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave" by Moya Z. Bailey Following a fascinating talk by Ed Finn on the changing role and source of literary criticism in a digital age, Natalia Cecire queried the implicit neutrality of a term like “nerd.” Melissa Harris-Perry’s reclamation aside, the racialized and gendered aspects of nerddom, and by extension the digital humanities, offer opportunities for a more explicit engagement with positionalities that lead “white men to feel embattled.” How do those outside the categories white and male navigate this burgeoning disciplinary terrain?
- "Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon" by Amy E. Earhart from Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- "Digital Humanities and the Study of Race and Ethnicity" by Stephanie P. Browner and Amy E. Earhart from The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, 2011, pp. 209-227.
- "Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation" by Tara McPherson from Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Privacy and Surveillance
- "Dataveillance and Countervailance" by Rita Raley Chapter in "Raw Data" is an Oxymoron, edited by Lisa Gitelman, 2013.
- "Surveillance at the Source" by David Thaw The Kentucky Law Journal, vol. 103, no. 3, 2015, pp. 405-417.
- EPIC Student Privacy Project Students do not shed all of their rights at the schoolhouse gate, including the right to privacy. Although recent Supreme Court decisions have diminished this right, there are substantial federal and state protections for the privacy of students' educational records. The most prominent of the federal protections for student privacy is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), also known as the "Buckley Amendment," FERPA protects the confidentiality of student records to some extent, while also giving students the right to review their own records.
Environmental Impact
- "Bringing a Hidden Pond to Public Attention: Increasing Impact through Digital Tools" by Anne M. Valk and Holly Ewald Oral History Review, vol. 40, no. 1, 2013, pp. 8-24.
- "The Armchair Traveler's Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities" by Finn Arne Jørgensen Environmental Humanities, vol. 4, 2014, pp. 95-112.
- Techno Trash by Mél Hogan & Andrea Zeffiro We are soliciting personal histories of technological use, disuse, and disposal. Send us your stories and photos, and help raise awareness about the social and environmental impacts of our personal technologies and media practices.
Labor (In and Out of the Institution)
- "A Student Collaborators' Bill of Rights" by CDH Guest Author UCLA’s Digital Humanities program emphasizes cross-disciplinary, cross-hierarchy collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. We’ve created this Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights as a statement of our values and principles in the UCLA DH program.
- "Digital Humanities and the History of Working Women: A Cascade" by Marco H.D. Van Leeuwen and Richard L. Zijdeman The History of the Family, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014, pp. 411-425.
- "Time, Labor, and 'Alternate Careers' in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work" by Julia Flanders and Matthew K. Gold in Debates in the Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota, 2012.
- Digital Labor from The New School The past decade was not only about advances in digitization, increased processing power, the popularization of cloud computing, and the “sharing economy;” it was also about the crash of the financial system in 2008, vast attacks on employment and worker rights, sprawling debt, economic inequality, dwindling numbers among the ranks of traditional labor unions as well as booming automation of everything from lawyers and professors, to cooks and farmers.
Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community by Call Number: AZ195 .D545 2018ISBN: 9780081020234Publication Date: 2018-03-07
As part of the 2017/2018 Digital Humanities Graduate Student Initiative, students in the MA in DH program hosted a conference on digital accessibility. The conference was broken into three morning sessions, a luncheon, and an afternoon edit-a-thon. The three morning sessions featured speakers and panelists who discussed topics such as universal design at the onset of digital resource creation, remediating and retrofitting existing digital projects to make them more accessible, and envisioning how institutions like Loyola move forward as creators of digitally accessible content. Following a catered lunch where “accessibility-aware” mentors assessed participants’ digital creations, an edit-a-thon ensued encouraging participants to work alongside accessibility professionals on making their digital projects and university department websites more accessible.The conference website and program can be viewed here: Digital Accessibility: Assessing, Amending, and Advancing Digital Content for All