Modeling Activist Networks
Lately I’ve become interested in the idea of building a platform for crowdsourcing information about activist affiliations that could be used to generate an open access database that would a) be...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Projects
I could help facilitate a session on crowdfunding for projects in the humanities–this month I’ve been running a Kickstarter campaign for my oral history project on African American AIDS activism. The...
View ArticleSession Proposal: Activism as Collaborative Cross-Genre Artistic Output
I would like to facilitate a session on collaborative cross-genre activism. A potential output would be an exhibition, film screening, performance, installation, website. I curate...
View ArticleSession Proposal: Speaking Silence: Race, Racism, and Feminism in the Academy
Michelle Moravec and I are interested in a discussion of the risks of speaking and silence when race, racism, and feminism are the topics of conversations. The starting point for this conversation...
View ArticleBuilding and Cultivating Online Communities for College Students
Many of us are part of strong, online communities that help us in our personal and professional lives. As a participant–and grateful beneficiary–of several online networks, I’m motivated to try to...
View ArticleEmotion work, cognitive capitalism, and digital labor
In The Managed Heart (1983), Arlie Russell Hochschild detailed situations in which smiling, welcoming, and genuinely caring are part of a job. Taking Delta flight attendants as her case study,...
View ArticleLinguistic Analysis with Digital Tools
Tools in the digital humanities, each time I write “tool” I think “who is going to write that analysis of phallogocentric language in DH?” However using the master’s tools has been necessary over the...
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Researching and Archiving Personal/Public Online Material
I’d like to talk about the ethics and practices surrounding research on and archiving of personal online material. By personal online material I mean personal sites, blogs, and other publicly...
View ArticleWhat I Wish I Had Known Earlier in the Digital Humanities Development Process
From Mia Zamora, Kean University: I would like to propose a “Best Practices and Advice” discussion, or “What I Wish I Had Known Earlier in the Development Process” to support anyone who might be...
View ArticleFeminist Digital Pedagogies
First, let me say thanks to those who have already submitted such provocative session proposals! I’m excited to workshop many of these. My offering comes out of an ongoing Mellon-funded project I’m...
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Digitizing Zines: Tensions Between Digital Desires & Print Culture Ideals
Daniela Capistrano (People of Color Zine Project), Jenna Freedman (Barnard Zine Library), and Melissa Rogers (Women’s Studies Multimedia Studio, University of Maryland) are interested in opening up a...
View ArticleWikipedia Edit-a-thon?
Possible working session/workshop: If anyone is interested, we could take part in a Wikipedia edit-a-thon like at THATCamp Feminisms West and South:...
View ArticleSession Proposal: Teens on the Net
Aisha Oglivie & I are interested in teens on the internet: how do they build identity? How, if at all, do they become activists? What are the downfalls of tech for teens, and what are the...
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