A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities. In recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny. Taking intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline, identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms. And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it’s also an important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the fastest growing fields in the academy. Contributors: Babalola Titilola Aiyegbusi, U of Lethbridge; Moya Bailey, Northeastern U; Bridget Blodgett, U of Baltimore; Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven; Jason Boyd, Ryerson U; Christina Boyles, Trinity College; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Lisa Brundage, CUNY; micha cárdenas, U of Washington Bothell; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U; Danielle Cole; Beth Coleman, U of Waterloo; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Constance Crompton, U of Ottawa; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M; Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, U of Colorado Boulder; Julia Flanders, Northeastern U Library; Sandra Gabriele, Concordia U; Brian Getnick; Karen Gregory, U of Edinburgh; Alison Hedley, Ryerson U; Kathryn Holland, MacEwan U; James Howe, Rutgers U; Jeana Jorgensen, Indiana U; Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dorothy Kim, Vassar College; Kimberly Knight, U of Texas, Dallas; Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson U; Sharon M. Leon, Michigan State; Izetta Autumn Mobley, U of Maryland; Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; Veronica Paredes, U of Illinois; Roopika Risam, Salem State; Bonnie Ruberg, U of California, Irvine; Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), U of California, Santa Barbara; Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester; Deb Verhoeven, U of Technology, Sydney; Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon U.
Author(s): Elizabeth Losh, Jacqueline Wernimont
Series: Debates in the Digital Humanities
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 518
Tags: Intersectional Feminism, Digital Humanities
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
Part I: Materiality......Page 28
1 “Danger, Jane Roe!” Material Data Visualization as Feminist Praxis......Page 30
2 The Android Goddess Declaration: After Man(ifestos)......Page 52
3 What Passes for Human? Undermining the Universal Subject in Digital Humanities Praxis......Page 66
4 Accounting and Accountability: Feminist Grant Administration and Coalitional Fair Finance......Page 84
Part II: Values......Page 96
5 Be More Than Binary......Page 98
6 Representation at Digital Humanities Conferences (2000– 2015)......Page 99
7 Counting the Costs: Funding Feminism in the Digital Humanities......Page 120
8 Toward a Queer Digital Humanities......Page 135
Part III: Embodiment......Page 156
9 Remaking History: Lesbian Feminist Historical Methods in the Digital Humanities......Page 158
10 Prototyping Personography for The Yellow Nineties Online: Queering and Querying History in the Digital Age......Page 184
11 Is Twitter Any Place for a [Black Academic] Lady?......Page 200
12 Bringing Up the Bodies: The Visceral, the Virtual, and the Visible......Page 212
Part IV: Affect......Page 228
13 Ev- Ent- Anglement: A Script to Reflexively Extend Engagement by Way of Technologies......Page 230
14 Building Pleasure and the Digital Archive......Page 257
15 Delivery Service: Gender and the Political Unconscious of Digital Humanities......Page 288
Part V: Labor......Page 314
16 Building Otherwise......Page 316
17 Working Nine to Five: What a Way to Make an Academic Living?......Page 332
18 Minority Report: The Myth of Equality in the Digital Humanities......Page 347
19 Complicating a “Great Man” Narrative of Digital History in the United States......Page 371
Part VI: Situatedness......Page 394
20 Can We Trust the University? Digital Humanities Collaborations with Historically Exploited Cultural Communities......Page 396
21 Domestic Disturbances: Precarity, Agency, Data......Page 418
22 Project | Process | Product: Feminist Digital Subjectivity in a Shifting Scholarly Field......Page 436
23 Decolonizing Digital Humanities: Africa in Perspective......Page 461
24 A View from Somewhere: Designing The Oldest Game, a Newsgame to Speak Nearby......Page 474
25 Playing the Humanities: Feminist Game Studies and Public Discourse......Page 493
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