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In “Colonial Violence and the Postcolonial Digital Archive,” Roopika Risam tackles digital archives and their role or relationship to post-Colonial knowledge collection and preservation (research, discourse, etc.). The author asks the reader to reconsider the “role of representation in digital archives.” Digital archives are a few steps ahead of the race to decolonize history andContinue reading “Lab Report #5”

Despite my best efforts to figure out how to use Gephi, I was not able to figure it out. I am not one who easily understands the many different technologies that exist or continue to be created out in the cyber world. With that in mind, if I cannot figure a program or software out,Continue reading “Lab Report #4”

The humanities in simplest of terms is the study of humans. Yet centuries of slavery and colonialism add layers of racial complexity to this understanding. For those who were nonwhite, particularly Black people in the United States, were seen as less than human, subhuman. Looking at the simplest definition of humanities, an enormous assumption isContinue reading “Blog Entry #6”

In “Queerying Homophily,” Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores pattern discrimination in the form of “homophily,” which they describe as the, “axiom that similarity breeds connection.” Network science is also looked into with the author noting, “at the most basic level, network science captures – that is, analyzes, articulates, imposes, instrumentalizes, and elaborates – connection. ChunContinue reading “Blog Entry #5”

On the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture “About Scalar” page, they open their “About” text with the following statement: “Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online.” And though it is technically a “free” and “open” source tool, itsContinue reading “Lab Report #3”

When one opens The Renewing Inequality Digital Humanities Project site, they are directed to a screen that displays the title, a black and white photograph, and a brief description of what the project is about. The page is variations of gray, black, and white; the background is gray, the text white, and the photograph blackContinue reading “Organizational Analysis”

Metadata Plan For our group’s Metadata Plan, we individually sifted through online texts, search results, images, etc. to gain an understanding of what should be included as key terms in the plan. While working on this, we created a shared Google document so that we could keep track of what we found by adding informationContinue reading “Lab Report #2”

There are several questions and issues to consider when designing a user interface. What will be the goal of this user interface? Who is the desired or target audience of this user interface? Is the user interface easy to use (not complex or complicated in structure)? Will its organizational structure be readily apparent to theContinue reading “Blog Entry #4”

Chapter 1 In this first word cloud, as well as the other three, obviously the words “digital” and “humanities” are the most used terms. Other terms of note include: “convention,” “English,” “computing,” “conference,” and “scholarship.” This article was more technical and functioned more as an introduction into the discussion on what was and what isContinue reading “Lab Report #1”

A Glossary of DH Terms, in process… -Computation: the act, process, or method of computing (https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=computational) -Computational device: also called “digital” device (Berry 1) -Computationality: related to third wave of “digital humanities” (Berry 4); the transformation of information through computational techniques (Berry 5); an ontotheology (Berry 16) -Computational medium:  -Computational technology:  -Digital humanities: research mediatedContinue reading “Blog Entry #3”