!!Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam!!
Postcolonial Digital Humanities
From Hashtag to Movement
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@adelinekoh & @roopikarisam
#DHPoco
❖ “Postcolonial Digital Humanities”"
❖ Started by Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam"
❖ How can we draw methodologies from both fields to usefully create a new one?
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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
@adelinekoh
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#DHPoco Comics@adelinekoh
#DHPoco Comics: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com/tagged/comics!6
#DHPoco Comics@adelinekoh
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Join us #GWWI ALL DAY March 18
dhpoco.org!8
And finally…
#DHPoco: The Book!
Hopefully forthcoming 2015.
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Mission StatementTechnology is not culturally neutral"Technology contains global structural inequalities
@adelinekoh
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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
@adelinekoh
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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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Join us tomorrow! 10 am to 12 noon in the commons area on the
first floor of the Woodruff Library (outside of Jazzman's Café)
Tweet using #GWWI
Sign up at:
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