Comments on: Digital Humanities + Social Justice = “Does Not Compute?”

By: clarissalee

clarissalee — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:15:08 +0000

But I will be most interested in understanding how DH can contribute to improving and making relevant within a larger context, the way ideology is being theorized in the academia.

By: clarissalee

clarissalee — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:14:11 +0000

This is already being done, albeit still slowly, in Durham, NC. School-going students are involved.
digitaldurham.duke.edu/

By: Tess

Tess — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:30:19 +0000

This is a fantastic idea! It has significant implications for us within our own communities in addition to the more global implications. For example, how can the DH skills that we teach increase opportunities for our students from less privileged backgrounds?

By: Marta S. Rivera Monclova

Marta S. Rivera Monclova — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:38:12 +0000

By the way, THATCamp Prime apparently had some discussion of this too. I was not there, but they created a document too, see it here.

By: GhostProf

GhostProf — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:19:09 +0000

I was actually thinking last night about a session on the ecologies of DH as well — our tech does not come from nowhere, and it is material in its impacts on the world. How does that factor into the warm fuzziness of DH community ethos?

By: Marta S. Rivera Monclova

Marta S. Rivera Monclova — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:46:25 +0000

Yes! I was the convener of that THATCamp SoCal session (you can read the document we generated here. I'm excited to continue this conversation!!

By: Janet Simons

Janet Simons — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:16:15 +0000

I have often wondered about how to introduce students to the tools that they might
use to effect change in human crisis situations. What do our students need to know and how might they teach those same technologies to community members so they might continue to be used in grassroots efforts?