Postcolonial Digital Humanities: From Hashtag to Movement

!!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: How it Began@adelinekoh

Tumblr: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com!5

#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

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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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Projects#DHPoco website"dhpoco.org"!Accepting Submissions!

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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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