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CFP: Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities
I’m excited to edit the Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities book together with Prof. Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Prof. James Smithies (King’s College London) for the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series (University of Minnesota Press). Call for Papers is open for submissions! Deadline: December 15, 2021.
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Infrastructuring digital humanities: A new publication in DSH
I am excited to share that my new article “Infrastructuring digital humanities: On relational infrastructure and global reconfiguration of the field” has been published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (17 September 2021, Oxford University Press). It is open access so you can read and download it for free here.
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Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure
I’m pleased to announce the second workshop in the Digital Humanities & Critical Infrastructure Studies Workshop Series, “Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure”. The event is organised by King’s Digital Lab, King’s College Department of Digital Humanities, and Critical Infrastructures Studies Initiative (cistudies.org). The workshop brings together leading thinkers in Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Digital Media, and Information Studies to discuss practices of investigating global topographies of knowledge, data, and IT infrastructures and their influence on local social, economic, and research conditions. The meeting will take place on 18 November 2021 on the Microsoft Teams platform. Please find out more in the “Events” section and register now!
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On the Method of the “STS of Documents” in Digital Humanities
Documents have been increasingly recognised as important objects of investigation in science and technology studies (STS), as Kalpana Shankar et al. states: ‘Documents are often, maybe always, at the center of efforts to achieve coordination and control, so greater attention to the complexity of their role should result in better accounts of how this is accomplished’ (2017: 70). So far, much less attention has been given to the study of documents in Digital Humanities (DH); however, given a diverse and large number of materials produced in DH work (e.g., technical documentation, kits, protocols, white papers), it has become timely and significant to approach them to investigate the socio-technical practices of digital research production.
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Ethnography of Laboratory in Digital Humanities
Below, you can find slides presentation for a conference talk given by Urszula Pawlicka-Deger at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) organised by the University of Victoria, Canada in June 2021. More details can be found on the DHSI 2021 website here. Continue reading...