Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess

In her 2015 talk on women’s history in the digital world, Claire Potter observes “that like digital humanities, histories of media are so intertwined with histories of gender, race, and class as to require feminism” (“Putting the Humanities in Action: Why We Are All Digital Humanists, and Why That N...

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Hauptverfasser: ELIZABETH LOSH, JACQUELINE WERNIMONT, LAURA WEXLER, HONG-AN WU
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Zusammenfassung:In her 2015 talk on women’s history in the digital world, Claire Potter observes “that like digital humanities, histories of media are so intertwined with histories of gender, race, and class as to require feminism” (“Putting the Humanities in Action: Why We Are All Digital Humanists, and Why That Needs to Be a Feminist Project”). Her talk took place during a spring when news of police violence against unarmed black people in places ranging from Ferguson, Missouri, to Staten Island, New York, was so regular as to operate as a kind of violent cultural heartbeat documented by #BlackLivesMatter. It also