Disrupting the Digital Humanities
- Edited by Dorothy Kim, Jesse Stommel
Published on November 6, 2018 by punctum books
- Pages
- 514 pages
- Languages
- English
- Dimensions
- 5⤫8 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-1-947447-71-4 (Paperback)
- ISBN (PDF)
- ISBN: 978-1-947447-72-1 (PDF)
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: COM079000, COM079010
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: NHTQ, UBJ, UXA
All too often, defining a discipline becomes more an exercise of exclusion than inclusion.* Disrupting the Digital Humanities* seeks to rethink how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many other so-called field-defining collections. What is most beautiful about the work of the Digital Humanities is exactly the fact that it can’t be tidily anthologized. In fact, the desire to neatly define the Digital Humanities (to filter the DH-y from the DH) is a way of excluding the radically diverse work that actually constitutes the field. This collection, then, works to push and prod at the edges of the Digital Humanities — to open the Digital Humanities rather than close it down. Ultimately, it’s exactly the fringes, the outliers, that make the Digital Humanities both heterogeneous and rigorous.
This collection does not constitute yet another reservoir for the new Digital Humanities canon. Rather, its aim is less about assembling content as it is about creating new conversations. Building a truly communal space for the digital humanities requires that we all approach that space with a commitment to: 1) creating open and non-hierarchical dialogues; 2) championing non-traditional work that might not otherwise be recognized through conventional scholarly channels; 3) amplifying marginalized voices; 4) advocating for students and learners; and 5) sharing generously and openly to support the work of our peers.
Contents
Frontmatter (i–xviii)
Disrupting the Digital Humanities: An Introduction (19–37)
Dorothy Kim, Jesse Stommel
A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You" (39–48)
Adeline Koh
The Myth and the Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation" (49–60)
Audrey Watters
The Rhetoric of Disruption: What are We Doing Here? (61–77)
Meg Worley
Public Digital Humanities (79–90)
Jesse Stommel
Universal Design and Its Discontents (91–115)
Jonathan Hsy, Rick Godden
DH as "Disruptive Innovation" for Restorative Social Justice: Virtual Heritage and 3D Reconstructions of South Africa's Township Histories (117–142)
Angel Nieves
Lowriding through the Digital Humanities (143–154)
Annemarie Perez
Gold Star for You (155–160)
Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo
Mongrel Dream Library (161–168)
Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo
Exceptionalism in Digital Humanities: Community, Collaboration, and Consensus (169–195)
Michelle Moravec
The Problem with ProfHacker (197–216)
Matt Thomas
Digital Humanities and the Erosion of Inquiry (217–226)
Sean Michael Morris
#transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethonography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics (227–248)
Moya Bailey
DH and Adjuncts: Putting the Human Back into the Humanities (249–266)
Kathi Inman Berens, Laura Sanders
Not Seen, Not Heard (267–271)
Liana Silva Ford
Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd (273–294)
Spencer D.C. Keralis
The "Unbearable" Exclusion of the Digital (295–319)
Maha Bali
The Politics of Visibility (321–346)
Eunsong Kim
Academic Influence: The Sea of Change (347–356)
Bonnie Steward
Playing as Making (357–368)
Edmond Y. Chang
Humanizing the Interface (369–376)
Kat Lecky
Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance (377–399)
Robin Wharton
Outsiders, All: Connecting the Pasts and Futures of Digital Humanities and Composition (401–417)
Chris Friend
W(h)ither DH? New Tensions, Directions, and Evolutions in the Digital Humanities (419–453)
Lee Skallerup Bessette
The Library is Never Neutral (455–471)
Chris Bourg
After the Digital Humanities, or, a Postscript (473–477)
Fiona Barnett
How to #DecolonizeDH: Actionable Steps for an Antifascist DH (479–497)
Dorothy Kim
Backmatter (499–509)
Biographies
Dorothy Kim is Assistant Professor of English, specializing in medieval literature, at Brandeis University. She was a 2013-2014 Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies where she finished a monograph entitled Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and its Material Worlds (forthcoming from Toronto). She also has two books, Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies and *Decolonize the Middle Ages (*forthcoming in 2018 with Arc Humanities). She is the co-project director in the NEH-funded Scholarly Editions and Translations project, An Archive of Early Middle English, a database for medieval English manuscripts from 1100–1348. In addition to Disrupting the Digital Humanities, she is also co-editing, with Adeline Koh, Alternative Histories of the Digital Humanities (forthcoming from punctum), which examines the difficult histories of the digital humanities in relation to race, sexuality, gender, disability, and fascism. She has co-written articles on “#GawkingatRapeCulture” and “TwitterEthics,” and has also written articles about “TwitterPanic” and “Social Media and Academic Surveillance” at Model View Culture(opens in new tab). She is the medieval editor for The Orlando Project(opens in new tab) (version 2.0) and can be followed on Twitter @dorothyk98(opens in new tab). She was named by Diverse: Issues in Higher Ed 2015 as an Emerging Scholar under 40.
Jesse Stommel is Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at University of Mary Washington. He is also Director of Hybrid Pedagogy(opens in new tab): An Open-Access Journal of Learning, Teaching, and Technology and Co-founder of the Digital Pedagogy Lab(opens in new tab). Jesse is a documentary filmmaker and teaches courses about digital pedagogy, film, and new media. Jesse experiments relentlessly with learning interfaces, both digital and analog, and works in his research and teaching to emphasize new forms of collaboration. He’s got a rascal pup, Emily, and two clever cats, Loki and Odin. He’s online at jessestommel.com(opens in new tab) and on Twitter @Jessifer(opens in new tab).
Reviews
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Novel Alliances
“Difference is our operating system.” That’s the rallying cry that Cathy N. Davidson begins Disrupting the Digital Humanities with. It’s the perfect place to start. Davidson’s notion of “difference,” as taken up by Kim and Stommel, is central to the possibility of “disruption” inasmuch as DH can be seen as an engine of social justice. The essays in this collection amplifying marginalized voices, foreground educational reform, and draw attention to the ways in which new media cultivates unique networks and modes of communication. Difference and disruption are necessary because DH is never neutral. Technology is never neutral. Disrupting the Digital Humanities is therefore a call to action: a call “to resist, to hope, to protest, to play slant, to create communities, to demand change” by imagining the digital humanities as a political intervention. There are plenty of broad stroke DH collections out there, but Dorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel have produced the most socially relevant and impactful with this gathering of essays on race, gender, sexuality, disability, and social justice. There is so much productive content covered in this text, by so many key authors in the field of DH. And it’s affordable!
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Genres
- Cultural Studies+Critical Theory
- Humanities+University
- Media+Technology
Keywords
- computing
- decolonization
- digital humanities
- social justice
- technology
- universal design