Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities

by Elizabeth Losh (Editor), Jacqueline Wernimont (Editor)

Overview

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities

In recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.

Taking intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline, identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms. And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it’s also an important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the fastest growing fields in the academy.

Contributors: Babalola Titilola Aiyegbusi, U of Lethbridge; Moya Bailey, Northeastern U; Bridget Blodgett, U of Baltimore; Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven; Jason Boyd, Ryerson U; Christina Boyles, Trinity College; Susan Brown, U of Guelph; Lisa Brundage, CUNY; micha cárdenas, U of Washington Bothell; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U; Danielle Cole; Beth Coleman, U of Waterloo; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Constance Crompton, U of Ottawa; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M; Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, U of Colorado Boulder; Julia Flanders, Northeastern U Library; Sandra Gabriele, Concordia U; Brian Getnick; Karen Gregory, U of Edinburgh; Alison Hedley, Ryerson U; Kathryn Holland, MacEwan U; James Howe, Rutgers U; Jeana Jorgensen, Indiana U; Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dorothy Kim, Vassar College; Kimberly Knight, U of Texas, Dallas; Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson U; Sharon M. Leon, Michigan State; Izetta Autumn Mobley, U of Maryland; Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; Veronica Paredes, U of Illinois; Roopika Risam, Salem State; Bonnie Ruberg, U of California, Irvine; Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), U of California, Santa Barbara; Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester; Deb Verhoeven, U of Technology, Sydney; Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon U. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452958590
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	01/08/2019
Series:	Debates in the Digital Humanities
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	544
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Elizabeth Losh is associate professor of English and American studies at The College of William & Mary with a specialization in new media ecologies. She is author of Virtualpolitik and The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University and coauthor of Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing. 

Jacqueline Wernimont is assistant professor at Arizona State University, where she directs the Human Security Collaboratory and the Nexus Digital Research Co-op. She is author of Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media.

Table of Contents

Introduction Jacqueline Wernimont Elizabeth Losh ix

Part I Materiality

1 "Danger, Jane Roe!" Material Data Visualization as Feminist Praxis Kim Brillante Knight 3

2 The Android Goddess Declaration: After Man(ifestos) Micha Cárdenas 25

3 What Passes for Human? Undermining the Universal Subject in Digital Humanities Praxis Roopika Risam 39

4 Accounting and Accountability: Feminist Grant Administration and Coalitional Fair Finance Danielle Cole Izetta Autumn Mobley Jacqueline Wernimont Moya Bailey T. L. Cowan Veronica Paredes 57

Part II Values

5 Be More Than Binary Deb Verhoeven 71

6 Representation at Digital Humanities Conferences (2000-2015) Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara Jeana Jorgensen Scott B. Weingart 72

7 Counting the Costs: Funding Feminism in the Digital Humanities Christina Boyles 93

8 Toward a Queer Digital Humanities Bonnie Ruberg Jason Boyd James Howe 108

Part III Embodiment

9 Remaking History: Lesbian Feminist Historical Methods in the Digital Humanities Michelle Schwartz Constance Crompton 131

10 Prototyping Personography for The Yellow Nineties Online: Queering and Querying History in the Digital Age Alison Hedley Lorraine Janzen Kooistra 157

11 Is Twitter Any Place for a [Black Academic] Lady? Marcia Chatelain 173

12 Bringing Up the Bodies: The Visceral, the Virtual, and the Visible Padmini Ray Murray 185

Part IV Affect

13 Ev-Ent-Anglement: A Script to Reflexively Extend Engagement by Way of Technologies Brian Getnick Alexandra Juhasz Laila Shereen Sakr (Vj Um Amel) 203

14 Building Pleasure and the Digital Archive Dorothy Kim 230

15 Delivery Service: Gender and the Political Unconscious of Digital Humanities Susan Brown 261

Part V Labor

16 Building Otherwise Julia Flanders 289

17 Working Nine to Five: What a Way to Make an Academic Living? Lisa Brundage Karen Gregory Emily Sherwood 305

18 Minority Report: The Myth of Equality in the Digital Humanities Barbara Bordalejo 320

19 Complicating a "Great Man" Narrative of Digital History in the United States Sharon M. Leon 344

Part VI Situatedness

20 Can We Trust the University? Digital Humanities Collaborations with Historically Exploited Cultural Communities Amy E. Earhart 369

21 Domestic Disturbances: Precarity, Agency, Data Beth Coleman 391

22 Project Process Product: Feminist Digital Subjectivity in a Shifting Scholarly Field Kathryn Holland Susan Brown 409

23 Decolonizing Digital Humanities: Africa in Perspective Babalola Titilola Aiyegbusi 434

24 A View from Somewhere: Designing The Oldest Game, a Newsgame to Speak Nearby Sandra Gabriele 447

25 Playing the Humanities: Feminist Game Studies and Public Discourse Anastasia Salter Bridget Blodgett 466

Contributors 477

Index 481