As I am
preparing for DH 2016 in Krakow, Poland I thought it might be useful to create a
list of panels and papers that focus on gender, race, sexuality, class, and cross
cultural language issues for those interested in such issues in digital
humanities. So, following Mark Sample's long
standing tradition of highlighting digital humanities panels at MLA, here is a list of upcoming
papers of interest to those invested in diversity and/or inclusion. I have chosen papers that specifically state that they will
be dealing with one of the previously mentioned issues. If I miss
something, feel free to let me know in the comment section, and I will update.
The full schedule is available
here: https://www.conftool.pro/dh2016/sessions.php As the conference organizers update and add locations, I will include the information in this post.
Tuesday
12 July, 2016
9:30-1:00
PreH34: Translation Hack-a-thon!: Applying the Translation Toolkit to a Global
dh+lib
Sarah Potvin, Élika Ortega, Isabel Galina, Alex Gil,
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Patrick Williams, Zoe Borovsky, Roxanne Shirazi, Zach
Coble, Glen Worthey
How can we
move beyond a monolingual DH, and promote exchange of works among linguistic
communities? And how can we ensure this exchange is ongoing and sustainable?
This hack-a-thon brings together practitioners from two ADHO SIGs (Global
Outlook::Digital Humanities and the Libraries and DH SIGs), a primarily
monolingual dh community project (dh+lib), and the newly-created GO::DH
Translation Toolkit (http://go-dh.github.io/translation-toolkit/) in an attempt
to hack a solution.
While focused
on a pilot that models a translation process for a particular publication, dh+lib
(http://acrl.ala.org/dh/), our goal is generalizable to other scholarly
communication vehicles and venues. Attendees will be prepped to engage in
translation work and conversations around translation practices and existing
workflows. The session aims to offer participants practical and adaptable
approaches to developing comfort with and practices around translation in their
own institutions and endeavors.
Wednesday 13 July, 2016
9:30 - 9:45
B31: Short Paper Session: Analysing and visualizing networks 1: Using
Big Cultural Data To Understand Diversity And Reciprocity In The Global Flow Of
Contemporary Cinema
Deb Verhoeven, Bronwyn Coate, Colin Arrowsmith, Stuart Palmer
The paper
explores the relationships between countries in the exchange of movies and
measures the reciprocal nature of these relationships. This investigation
represents an innovative way to explore international exchanges of digital
cultural content based on global cinema screenings analysed at the national
level. Rather than focus on the market dominance of particular cinemas (e.g.
the US or Indian cinemas) we examine the relative strength of two-way
relationships in order to understand cultural reciprocity in the film industry.
The dynamics of shared cultural exchange are explored in terms of the volume of
transactions between ‘cinema nations’ expressed in the form of dyadic networks.
9:45 -
10:00
B31: Short
Paper Session: Identity Lenses in Analyzing Evolving Social Structures
John Robert Hott, Worthy N Martin, Kathleen Flake
In the effort
to capture cultural dynamics by the use of evolving networks, the specification
of what is represented by each node and edge is crucial. For example, one might
examine the societal structures of a cultural group by considering the evolving
network of marriages. However, for the early Mormon church the concept of
"marriage" is in flux, thus, we consider several conceptualizations
through identity lenses applied to a base evolving network. We
investigate whether metrics over the networks resulting from different identity
lenses can help elucidate the cultural dynamics of the Mormon church’s
formative years. We also consider co-authorship in relation to departmental and
institutional affiliation in an arXiv.org citation network.
We present the
definition of evolving networks, extended from typical applications to include identity
lenses, and the methods to extract metrics over those networks,
particularly the dynamics of the structures over time as they might reveal
cultural dynamics.
9:30-11:00
C11: Panel:
Infrastructures and collaboration 1: Institutionalizing and implementing the
Digital Yiddish Theatre Project
Joel Berkowitz, Debra Caplan, Agnieszka Legutko, Aaron Rubinstein
In this
Multiple Paper Session, members of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project will
discuss various facets of the group’s activities and challenges to date, and
plans for the future, as a case study for the application of DH to
collaborative undertakings in Jewish Studies. The focus will not be on the
content of the DYTP’s activities; rather, the participants will discuss
specific features of the DYTP’s work as a springboard to much broader
discussions of the opportunities and the challenges that DH offers for
scholars, librarians, and archivists working across Jewish Studies.
11:30 -
11:45
D12: Short
Paper Session: Reflections on the Digital Humanities 2: Researchers’
perceptions of DH trends and topics in the English and Spanish-speaking community.
DayofDH data as a case study.
Antonio Robles-Gómez, Elena González-Blanco, Salvador Ros, Gimena Del Rio
Riande, Roberto Hernández, Llanos Tobarra, Agustín C.
Caminero, Rafael Pastor
The
international blogging event known as DayofDH (A Day in the Life of the Digital
Humanities) project, promoted and sponsored by Centernet, has put together
digital humanists from around the world to document once a year what they do.
Although there have been general studies about the information on participation
in those events, there has not been an automated data analysis using data
mining and NLP or Big Data tools to extract and classify the relevant
information gathered in these blogs. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is
to develop a dashboard that allows let users make a quick idea of how the
Digital Humanities focus has been moving and distributing across the time
through the different Academies in the different countries, but also how topics
and interests change from one country to another and it is strongly related to
their perspectives and disciplines.
11:30-1:00
B62: Long Paper
Session: Recognizing and extracting visual patterns 2:Assessing a Shape Descriptor for Analysis of
Mesoamerican Hieroglyphics: A View Towards Practice in Digital Humanities
Rui Hu, Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez
We assess a
shape descriptor, in the domain of Maya hieroglyphics analysis, with a view
towards the practical application to the wider Digital Humanities (DH)
community.
The goal of
this paper is two-fold. First, we introduce the Histogram of Orientation Shape
Context (HOOSC) descriptor to be used in DH-related shape analysis tasks .
Second, we discuss some key issues for practitioners, namely the effect that
certain parameters have on the performance of the descriptor. We investigate
the impact of such choices on different data types, specially for ‘noisy’ data
as it is often the case with DH image sources.
Code and data
used in this paper will be released with the paper.
Unlocking The
Mayan Script With Unicode
Deborah Anderson, Carlos Pallán Gayol
The Maya
hieroglyphic script and the degree of its visual complexity have proven
challenging for standard script-encoding approaches to be applied. A
multidisciplinary collaboration established between UC Berkeley's Script
Encoding Initiative and the University of Bonn's MAAYA Project aims to employ
new methods combining linguistics, Maya epigraphy, digital palaeography and
computer vision to overcome some of the major challenges preventing the
encoding of Maya hieroglyphs in the Unicode Standard.
Encoding the
Maya hieroglyphs in Unicode would allow creation of vast open-access Maya
hieroglyphic text repositories and libraries, where advanced search and query
functionalities and text-mining could be applied. As a result, the ability to
render any Maya hieroglyphic text in Unicode could impact the overall
accessibility, reproduction, visualization and long-term preservation of the
sum of ancient knowledge recorded by the Maya scribes on thousands of texts and
inscriptions produced between ca. 250 BC and 1450 AD in Central America.
Ancient Maya
Writings as High-Dimensional Data: a Visualization Approach
Gulcan Can, Jean-Marc Odobez, Carlos Pallan Gayol,
Daniel Gatica-Perez
Smart
visualization and browsing tools are promising for Digital Humanities data. In
this work, visualization of ancient Maya glyphs is studied. The current system
focuses on the visual representations only, however it is easily extendable to
account for contextual or semantic information. The method has two main steps:
1) computing visual representation as a bag-of-word representation of shape
(HOOSC) descriptor, and 2) dimensionality reduction of visual representation
via t-SNE, and visualization.
The
visualization method performed proves itself as a powerful tool to give
insights about variances in the data corpus and reveal connections between the
categories and glyph samples. Another strong point of this visualization method
is that it enables exploitation of spatial extent of visual representation
(locality of shape descriptor) and how this spatial extent affects the
distribution of glyph samples in the high-dimensional space.
Hopefully,
this study can motivate further work in DH for other related problems.
D51: Panel: Diversity 1: Matters: Diversity and the Digital Humanities
in 2016
Amy Earhart, Alex Gil, Roopika Risam, Barbara
Bordalejo, Isabel Galina, Lorna Hughes, Melissa Terras
Our panel
consists of an international group of digital humanities scholars who are
invested in a broad understanding of difference and digital humanities. The
panel will discuss current tensions within the field and strategies for
negotiating the structural challenges to the DH conference and ADHO itself.
2:30-4:00
D52: Multi Paper Session: Diversity 2: Boundary
Land: Diversity as a defining feature of the Digital Humanities
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Barbara Bordalejo, Padmini Murray Ray, Gimena del
Rio, Elena González-Blanco
The theme of
this session is the Digital Humanities as a “Boundary Land”--i.e. a locus that
depends on interdisciplinarity of all kinds. It is our contention that
interpersonal diversity (i.e. diversity along lines such as gender, ethnicity,
sexual orientation, language, economic region, etc.) is as an important to DH
as interdisciplinarity. DH is not only a place where different disciplines work
together (and at times at odds to each other): it is also a place where
different people work together and at odds in developing our field. The papers
in this session provide a theoretical background to the problem, then explore
distinct aspects of this understanding of diversity as a core intellectual
component of the Digital Humanities in its current form.
3:00 - 3:15
C41: Short
Paper Session: Crowd sourcing / engaging the public: Indigenous digital
humanities. Participatory geo-referenced-mapping and visualization for digital
data management platforms in digital anthropology
Urte Undine Froemming
This paper
will examine some historical and contemporary aspects of indigenous digital
humanities. Presently, several indigenous communities worldwide have online
sites which have emerged in digital archives and multimedia exhibitions of the
museum landscape. Indigenous media activism has become a key word and symbol for
the self empowerment of indigenous groups. What does this movement mean for the
research area of digital anthropology? In this paper a participatory
ethnographic GIS-mapping approach will be introduced.
3:00
- 3:30
B63: Long Paper Session: Recognizing and extracting visual patterns 3: Digital Humanities in Cultural Areas Using
Texts That Lack Word Spacing
Kiyonori Nagasaki, Toru Tomabechi, Charles Muller, Masahiro Shimoda
In contexts of
current DH, huge humanities resources have still been dormant due to their
characteristics. Cultural areas using texts lack word spacing have faced with
difficulties in some aspects. This paper describes current situation in
Japanese texts to comprehensively grasp and discuss them. It would be useful to
make digital humanities truly global.
4:30-6:00
Po3: Poster slam 3
Booth 102:
Documenting the pain: Sharing Second World War survivors’ stories to help
meaning making and lessons learning through curating trans-European digital
narrative trajectories
Siegfried Handschuh, Simon Donig, Adamantios
Koumpis, Hanna Diamond
Po4: Poster slam 4
Booth 128: Beyond Digital Humanities? Furthering the Exploration of
Language Diversity and Pan-European Culture by Means of Transdisciplinary
Research Infrastructures: Introducing the new DARIAH CC Science Gateway
Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Roberto Barbera, Giuseppe La
Rocca, Antonio Calanducci, Tibor Kalman,
Thordis Ulfarsdottir, Jozica Skofic, Jadwiga Waniakova
6:30-8:30
PosterGroup114:
Natural Language Processing: Booth 050: Crosslingual Textual Emigration
Analysis
Andre Blessing, Jonas Kuhn
The present
work describes the transfer of an NLP-based biographical data exploration
system that was developed for German Wikipedia data to French Wikipedia data.
We argue that this transfer step has many characteristic properties of a
typical challenge in the Digital Humanities: resources and tools of different
origin and with different accuracy are combined for use in a multidisciplinary
context. Hence, we view the project context as an interesting test-bed for some
methodological considerations.
PosterGroup131:
Memorial projects: Booth 101: Blacks In American Medicine Archive: Exploring
Forgotten Stories
Evan Higgins, Kurt Fendt, Josh Cowls, Andy Stuhl
This short
paper discusses the newest project at MIT's HyperStudio, the Blacks in American
Medicine (BAM) archive. This archival project features over 23,000 biographical
records of African American physicians from 1860-1980 and numerous associated
primary documents. This one-of-a-kind database is comprised of content that has
never before been digitized or collected in a central location. BAM's
chronological, algorithmic and biographical display methods will not only
appeal to both scholars and amateurs but will allow for the telling of a
marginalized narrative within America's history through analysis of trends
within the African American medical community.
PosterGroup144:
Infrastructures:Booth 128: Beyond Digital Humanities? Furthering the
Exploration of Language Diversity and Pan-European Culture by Means of
Transdisciplinary Research Infrastructures: Introducing the new DARIAH CC
Science Gateway
Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Roberto Barbera, Giuseppe La Rocca, Antonio Calanducci,
Tibor Kalman, Thordis Ulfarsdottir, Jozica Skofic, Jadwiga Waniakova
The paper
introduces into the new DARIAH Competence Centre and its Science Gateway
established in the Horizon2020-project EGI ENGAGE (1.3.2015-). On the example
use case SADE the transdisciplinary, international team exemplifies the vision
of added value of research infrastructures for the development of explorative
scholarship.
On the example
of common names for living organisms the interdisciplinary collaboration
against the background of ongoing work in the Humanities, namely the Atlas
Linguarum Europae (ALE) and the COST action IS 1305 European Network for
eLexicography (ENeL) is discussed.
In our paper
we focus on:
- the introduction of the Science Gateway and its technical backbones with strong semantic researches based on Open Science Commons and
- first results of our work on Pan-European commonalties and
- a reflection of the transdisciplinary workflow, implications of Open Science Commons and opening a vision beyond Digital Humanities.
Thursday 14 July, 2016
9:30 -
10:00
B34: Long Paper
Session: Analyzing and visualizing network 4Dramatic Networks and Kinship
Structures in African-American Plays
Jack Porter, Vanessa Seals
This project
applies network analysis to African-American kinship structures in plays in
order to understand how these compare to white American kinship structures, how
both have changed over time, and how African-American dramatists have theorized
the importance and possibilities of their unique experience of American family
life.
B51: Long Paper
Session: High end 3D / VR / AR 1 : The Evolution of Virtual Harlem: Bringing
the Jazz Age to Life
Bryan Wilson Carter
The soulful
rhythms of blues and jazz music signaled an explosion of African American
creativity in the US in the 1920-30s. During this period, known as the New
Negro Movement and later known as the Harlem Renaissance, musicians, dancers,
visual artists, writers, and scholars sought to define their African heritage
in American culture. Prior, from after World War I until just after the stock
market crash in 1929, the vibrancy of newly discovered African-American art,
music and literature were celebrated in Harlem, NY and other African-American
urban centers. The Virtual Harlem Project represents one of the earliest
Virtual Environments focused on this exciting period. The evolution of this
project encourages visitors to experience how the Jazz Age is brought to life
through Virtual Worlds, Motion Capture and student-driven content.
10:00 -
10:15
A51: Short
Paper Session: Topic Modelling 1: Researchers to your Driving Seats: Building a
Graphical User Interface for Multilingual Topic-Modelling in R with Shiny
Thomas Koentges
The paper will
summarize the limitations of topic-modelling with special emphasis on how to
determine an ideal number of topics, as well as a short discussion of
morphosyntactic normalization and the use of stop-words. It will then suggest a
researcher-focused method of addressing these limitations and challenges in
topic-modelling by introducing the Shiny topic-modelling application developed
by the author based on R, Shiny, and J. Chang’s LDA library and C. Sievert’s LDAvis
library. The paper will then briefly demonstrate the applicability to the
different use-cases at ATL and OPP, which deal with very different fields and
languages, including English, Latin, Ancient Greek, Classical Arabic, and
Classical Persian.
12:30 -
1:00
A35: Long Paper
Session: Stylometry 5: Authorship Attribution Using Different Languages
Patrick Juola, George Mikros
We present the
results of experiments in authorship attribution based on training documents in
a different language than the testing documents. We were able to show that
certain (mentally based) features are robust across language of writing. Using
these features, we were able to correctly infer the authorship of documents in
English based on Spanish training documents and vice versa. We believe this to
be the first instance of such cross-linguistic attribution in the record.
11:30-1:00
B15: Short
Paper Session: Analyzing and using new media 5: Translating Electronic
Literature.
Multicultural, Multilingual and Cross-Platform Encounters
Multicultural, Multilingual and Cross-Platform Encounters
Monika Górska-Olesińska, Mariusz Pisarski
The paper is a
summary of our practical experience combined with theoretical reflection on
cross-cultural, multi-lingual and cross-platform possibilities of Sea and
Spar Between - poetry generator by Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort.
It is also a report from our ongoing project of making an Xbox Kinect version
of the work, both in English and Polish. Our original translation of the work
presented in 2013 during ELO Conference in Paris and published online in 2014
greatly multiplied the distributive authorship of the work as a whole,
revealing new culturally and linguistically determined aspects of code, grammar
and style and introducing new perspectives on contemporary translation. In the
short paper we reflect on what is translated/adapted/ported when we translate
the digital work of art for digitally enhanced venues and for audience of
"digital natives" is being raised.
D53: Panel: Diversity 3: Creating
Feminist Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities
Susan Brown, Tanya Clement, Laura Mandell, Deb Verhoeven, Jacque
Wernimont
This panel
considers how gender and digital infrastructures shape each other. It will be a
hybrid of the panel- and multiple-paper session with three sectioned themes:
·
Training
and pedagogical traditions;
·
Examples
of feminist technical infrastructure;
·
Infrastructure,
collaboration, and credit.
The panel aims
to improve understanding of:
- the extent to which even something as apparently neutral or apolitical as infrastructure is imbued with gender and other socio-political considerations;
- the impact of systemic gender and racial discrimination in a range of infrastructural contexts, notwithstanding the extent to which so many DH practitioners work hard to overcome the biases embedded in our cultures and our discourses; and
- current and prospective strategies for countering those biases.
We will seek
to engage the audience throughout this session to include in the panel’s
discussions a broad range of perspectives on and positions in relation to
infrastructure.
2:30-3:30
B53: Long Paper Session: High end 3D / VR / AR 3: Using Computer Numerical Control Techniques to Prototype Media History
Jentery Sayers, Tiffany Chan
This talk outlines a methodology for combining media history with 3D modelling and computer numerical control (CNC) techniques premised on remaking technologies that no longer function, no longer exist, or may have only existed as fictions, illustrations, or one-offs. Called “prototyping the past,” the methodology explains why technologies matter by approaching them as representations and agents of history. To demonstrate the methodology, we detail how the “Kits for Cultural History” project at the University of Victoria prototypes absences in the historical record and prompts audiences to examine the material particulars of that record through reverse engineering and reassembly. We draw example material from two specific Kits for Cultural History: an Early Wearable Kit (for an electro-mobile skull stick-pin from 1867) and an Early Magnetic Recording Kit (for experiments involving steel wire, telephones, and carriages during the late 1890s). CNC techniques including laser cutting, routing, milling, and printing. This paper includes a focus on Mary Jameson's contributions to optophonic and early OCR Research.B53: Long Paper Session: High end 3D / VR / AR 3: Using Computer Numerical Control Techniques to Prototype Media History
Jentery Sayers, Tiffany Chan
See http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2016/03/14/remaking-optophones-an-exercise-in-maintenance-studies/
3:15 - 3:30
B23: Short Paper
Session: Maps and space 3: Mapping Multilingual Responses To Famine And Dearth
In The Early Modern Landscapes Of India And Britain
Charlotte Tupman, Richard Holding, Hannah Petrie,
Gary Stringer
This paper
engages with questions of thematic markup of diverse textual source materials
in multiple languages, and the challenges of representing individual,
descriptive responses to landscapes in the form of digital maps. It takes as
its basis the AHRC-funded project ‘Famine and Dearth in India and Britain,
1550-1800: Connected Cultural Histories of Food Security’, which examines the
practices, discourses and literary modes through which societies in early
modern India and Britain articulated their concerns about the availability and
distribution of food. The project draws upon a large body of texts written in
languages including English, Latin, Persian, Bengali and Hindi for evidence
about cultural responses to landscapes of famine and dearth. Its aim is to
produce a digital resource which includes encoded extracts from the source
materials, maps that reflect the variety and scope of responses to the
landscapes, and data about places and people, including URIs.
2:30-4:00
C23: Panel: Sharing ressources 3:
Access, Ownership, Protection: The Ethics of Digital Scholarship
Katherine Mary Faull, Diane Katherine Jakacki, James
O'Sullivan, Amy Earhart, Micki Kaufman
This panel
aims to address the important issue of how we as Digital Humanities scholars
negotiate and present the sensitive data (textual, archival, geospatial) that
constitutes the core of our analyses. The public-facing nature of our work
reveals significant challenges that have to do increasingly with access and
ethics, and in many cases cause us to reassess how we conduct and disseminate
our research. A number of topics pertinent to this issue shall be addressed in
this panel, informed by case studies offered from the panelists’ own work.
Points of discussion will include, but not be limited to: the negotiation and
presentation of sensitive data, access to sources and resources, collaboration,
and ownership. In addition to presenting case studies, this panel will
incorporate an open dialogue among attendees that addresses these issues across
a broader array of research.
54: Panel: Diversity 4: Representing
Justice in Digital Archiving Practice
Roopika Risam, Jeremy Boggs, Purdom Lindblad, Padmini Ray Murray
This panel
considers the challenges and best practices for representing justice in digital
archival practice. It continues the conversation about justice-minded practices
that position digital archives to intervene effectively. Addressing these
concerns, each panelist will speak for 10 minutes on a key dimension of digital
archiving, from design to execution to scholarly use. The 10-minute remarks from
speakers will be followed by a conversation with the audience about the
practices we employ in the construction of archives.
Friday 15 July, 2016
9:30 -
10:00
Representations
Of Race: Mining Identity In American Fiction, 1789-1964
Mark Andrew Algee-Hewitt, J.D. Porter, Hannah Walser
In this
project, we employ the methodologies of text mining to investigate the role
that the novel plays in the construction of racial or ethnic identity in
America. Specifically, we ask how might quantitative textual analysis or text
mining help us reconstruct the process by which ethnicities, nationalities,
religious groups, and other identity categories became dominated by the
all-encompassing category of race? To answer this question, we undertake two
related investigations into a corpus of American Fiction written between 1789
and 1964. First, we explore the distinctive language that accrues over time to
various racial, ethnic or national descriptors of identity. Second, we explore
how individual characters either articulate or resist this set background
understanding of the meaning of race within individual texts.Between these two
methods our project explores what the Digital Humanities can bring to an
expanded understanding of the meaning and work of identity in the American
Novel.
10:00 -
10:30
New DH
Publishing Models and Geopolitical Diversity
Isabel Galina Russell, Ernesto Priani Saisó
The aim of
this paper is to discuss how the new scholarly publishing models proposed by
the Digital Humanities, if properly executed, may also serve to increase
geopolitical diversity in the field. Currently research from periphery
countries is sorely underrepresented in the international scholarly publishing
system. Digital Humanities is seeking to validate new forms of digital
scholarship that includes new forms for communicating and publishing results.
If we view DH as a transformative motor in academia then we can propose new
models that adequately incorporate digital scholarly output from countries on
the periphery that are left out of the global publishing system within the
traditional scholarly publishing model.
10:30 -
11:00
The Lifecycle
of a Digital African Studies Projects: Creating Sustainable, Equitable, and
Ethical Projects
Dean Rehberger, Ibrahima Thiaw, Deborah Mack, Candace Keller, Catherine
Foley
For more than
20 years, researchers at Matrix, the Center for Digital Humanites and Social
Science have been working on digital projects in several countries in Africa.
While the technologies are critical parts of the digital humanities, ethical
considerations also need to be part of any project that involves multiple
projects. This is particularly true of Digital African Studies Projects because
of the long and bloody history of colonialism, exploitation, and cultural
theft. This long paper will explore through the context of two ongoing projects
-- "Archive of Malian Photography” and the "Gorée Island
Archaeological Digital Repository” — strategies to be deployed to develop
sustainable, equitable, and ethical projects. While neither project is a
perfect model, the strategies deployed set against the everyday frustrations of
multiple partner projects, long distance project management, and problematic
working conditions does help to expose what works and what still needs to be
changed or augmented.
11:30-1:00
56: Multi Paper Session: Diversity 6: Diverse Digitalities: Targeted Models for Postcolonial
Challenges in the Digital Discourse.
Nirmala Menon, Alex Gil, Rahul Gairola
The digital
highway is as yet an exclusive neighborhood-let’s just say that there no
traffic jams on there just yet. This disparity is of course not lost on the
practitioners of digital humanities and several conversations pointing out this
disparity have emerged in the last few years. This panel discusses different
projects that specifically address issues in countries where bandwidth and
connectivity is not optimal as in the more advanced nations. How do we harness
digital technology so humanities research can be innovative and access to them
is not behind a pay wall or a “bandwidth” boundary? Together, the three papers
address specific problems of the global south and envisage projects that will
enable a more diverse global Digital Humanities conversation. The projects
discusses ways of enabling humanities research and researchers to go from the
digital driveway to the highway within the constraints of connectivity and
capability.
3:00 - 3:30
D57: Long Paper Session: Diversity 7: Pulp Science Fiction's Legacy to Women in Science
Elizabeth Winfree Garbee
This study
examines a large “pulp” science fiction corpus (1930 – 1965) through corpus
linguistic analysis in order to digitally reconstruct the gendered occupational
identities created by those authors, and the culture they represent, which
perpetuated a stereotype of “the scientist” and how they characterized women in
professional scientific roles.I created occupational archetypes from these
collocates, clusters, and textual examples for each of those classic STEM
professions, and uncovered that out of the hundreds of scientists in my corpus,
only three were women. A linguistic analysis of these women revealed American
cultural assumptions about the intersection of femininity and science: a female
scientist could either be beautiful or accomplished. The one woman in the
corpus who had it all, so to speak, appeared very late on the scene, and
perhaps signals a shift in the cultural conception of who a scientist could be
and what they could look like.