An Ethical Digital Humanities: Small Scale Approaches to Inclusive DH Projects
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
20-9-2016 7:00 PM
Description
The digital humanities has, as a field, been critiqued for high cost, huge projects that are often exclusionary by their structure, cost, technology application and content. Dr. Earhart will discuss the limitations of such approaches to digital humanities projects and chart a long history of low entry point, accessible digital approaches, what she calls small data digital humanities. Focusing on her current monograph project, “Can a Computer be Racist?: Digital Humanities and the Exploration of Race,” Dr. Earhart will discuss cultural and power structures that impact digital projects, ethical community outreach strategies and classroom approaches to digital humanities. The connection of pedagogy, community and structure forms the backbone of a digital humanities that ethically engages in social change.
Recommended Citation
Earhart, Amy, "An Ethical Digital Humanities: Small Scale Approaches to Inclusive DH Projects" (2016). Humanities Symposium. 20.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2016/2016/20
An Ethical Digital Humanities: Small Scale Approaches to Inclusive DH Projects
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
The digital humanities has, as a field, been critiqued for high cost, huge projects that are often exclusionary by their structure, cost, technology application and content. Dr. Earhart will discuss the limitations of such approaches to digital humanities projects and chart a long history of low entry point, accessible digital approaches, what she calls small data digital humanities. Focusing on her current monograph project, “Can a Computer be Racist?: Digital Humanities and the Exploration of Race,” Dr. Earhart will discuss cultural and power structures that impact digital projects, ethical community outreach strategies and classroom approaches to digital humanities. The connection of pedagogy, community and structure forms the backbone of a digital humanities that ethically engages in social change.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Global Citizenship, Leadership, Diversity and the Professions