VivianHalloran

Week 3: Summary of Lisa Nakamura, "Queer Female Gamer of Color"
I loved Nakamura's essay, but wondered whether her reading of Aisha Tyler's hosting gig at E3 de facto rendered her gender and race as "queer" challenges to the de facto lowest difficulty setting of white geek masculinity. This …

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Week 3. Earhart Q8. Race, Ethnicity vs. the Death of the Author
Race and/ethnicity of the author matter in the context of recovered histories or canon expansion (read: as part of a larger ideological project to democratize the archives or to preserve heritage). However, an author's race and/or ethnicity is…

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Week 2: Readings and Summary of Tara McPherson's "Why are the Digital Humanities So White?"
These comments and the article itself made me go back and question how well postcolonial studies itself deals with race, especially with the whole idea of whiteness as privilege. This made me start reading a book I have assigned for my fall class o…

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Digital natives and Native digits
Is anyone else bothered because the colonial implications of the term "digital native" haven't been sufficiently problematized? I find it problematic because it is so often used in discussions aimed at K-12 teachers and Higher Ed ins…

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Week 2: Question 3: Overspecialization
@roopikarisam funny you should ask that because finding out about the #dhpoco comic strip, all I could think about was how this initiative would help revive postcolonial studies, an area of specialization which I love and in which I am trained, bu…

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Week 2: Question 1: What is the Genealogy of Race in DH?
I wonder whether McPherson's discussion of labor in the context of the development of computing languages could be expanded in some useful way to account for outsourcing of IT expertise overseas to India. It seems as if a knowledgeable overview…

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Week 1: Question 1 - Role of Cultural Criticism in DH

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Week 1: Question 2 - DH's Genealogies
What about a reference to what came after May 68 in the context of cultural Sudies: the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s? Berube's done some useful writing analyzing their impact. Or, some acknowledgement about the tensions that pervade et…

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Week 1: Question 1 - Role of Cultural Criticism in DH
As a Caribbeanist, I was pleased to find out recently about the ongoing digitization project of the Digital Library of the Caribbean. I found it useful to think of Liu's call for cultural criticism in the context of Alexander Gil's though…

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