Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities:

Losh, Elizabeth; Wernimont, Jacqueline; Wexler, Laura; Wu, Hong-An (Ann)

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“…Methodologically, the study is inspired by feminist technology studies (Bauchspies and de la Bellacasa, 2009; Wajcman, 2000), with their broad normative concern for issues of representation and equality as well as a more specific sensitivity to the ways in which gendered identities are co-constituted with other identity dimensions (Losh and Wernimont, 2018; Samuels and Ross-Sheriff, 2008). We supplement the actor-centric approach of detailing individual intersectionalities with a processual orientation (Baygi et al, 2021), focusing on the ways in which onlife intersectionalities play out as flows of playbour.…”

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Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming

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Bukuru

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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Digital capitalism troubles classical notions of contextual singularity and agential unity and destabilises delineations of online and offline realities. Following Floridi, this paper applies the concept of ‘onlife’ for the ‘new experience of a hypermediated reality’, and we contribute to the understanding of this experience by highlighting the socioeconomic entanglements of users’ self-expression and technological corporations’ profiteering. We introduce the notion of onlife intersectionalities, where intersectionalities are understood as the enactment of identities at the crossroad of gender, race, sexuality, class, etc., and add the dimension of commercial interest to better conceptualise dynamics of empowerment and exploitation. Thus, we suggest that onlife intersectionalities are enacted in and as flows of playbour that produce surplus value through playful activity. Seeking empirical substance for these conceptual relations, we turn to the case of women in online gaming. Focusing on three individual women gamers’ onlife trajectories and flows of playbour, we show how these interact differently for each gamer, leading to more play with higher rewards for some and more labour with less compensation for others. With this analysis, we illustrate the exploitation-cum-empowerment of human subjects under digital capitalism.

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Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming

Just

Storm²,

Bukuru

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…(This point may be said perhaps about all knowledge-production in disciplines, but digital humanists are especially good at making this point). 9 The pedagogy of the Seward Project focuses on the process of scholarly editing-what makes a good transcription, how to edit thoughtfully, how much time to spend on nding individuals for annotations, how to mark up pets instead of people in TEI, how to handle the physical manuscripts, and so on. This process provides ample space for pedagogy.…”

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Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive

Sutherland

2022

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Those of us who transform primary materials into digital editions and archives understand that our work products communicate and contribute to a wider scholarly ecosystem; moreover, the act of producing published archival artifacts serves as its own form of internal knowledge production and incremental guide for future work. When digital initiatives are deeply informed by the minds and labor of undergraduate students, however, the dialogic interchange between pedagogy, methodology, and discourse is both intensely rewarding and occasionally daunting. Such is the case for the Seward Family Digital Archive. Indeed, its example promotes a unique model for several elds, including scholarly editing, public history, pedagogy, and digital humanities. Overview and HistoryThe Seward Family Digital Archive consists of letters, journals, and paper ephemera of the William Henry and Frances Seward family; it can be accessed publicly at sewardproject.org. 1 Since the project's inception in 2013, the work of documentary editing has bene ted from the robust collaborative support of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, archivists, and librarians. Likewise, the Seward Family Digital Archive's principal investigator, Dr. Thomas Slaughter, is also the professor of a series of courses that integrate transcription, annotation, editing, and markup in XML using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) as part of the course's assigned material. 2 Through grant funding, the project managers are able to pay about a dozen undergraduate and graduate students to work ten months of the year on all facets of documentary editing. Students on the Seward Project are essential members of the team and take part in drafting project documentation, performing transcription, annotation, and editing, and advising on the future directions of the project. Consequently, student agency and direct involvement through pedagogical coursework and employment in the project have gured centrally in the Seward Family Digital Archive since its commencement. 3 Importantly, in this work, students both gain exposure to the intersecting elds of scholarly editing and digital history, and give back to the scholarly and methodological discourses that support this archival achievement.The University of Rochester's Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Department (RBSCP) houses the physical papers featured in the digital archive, and the work of digitizing, collating, and handling the manuscripts is undertaken in close collaboration with archivists and librarians. The manuscript material spans major events in American history from about 1817 to 1920, in which Seward and his family were at the forefront. They include land purchases in western New York, the abolition movement in upstate New York, the 1860 presidential election, the Civil War, the assassination of President Lincoln and attempted assassination of Seward himself, and Reconstruction. Vital social concerns, such as woman's su rage, prison reform, medicine and health, family life, childrearing practices...

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“…How DH may advance will depend on how the relationships between data and power today become challenged, a question Liu found to be hardly brought up in DH associations, conferences, journals, and projects. Some recent publications have grappled with questions of who and what matters in DH, including discussions on diversity [2][3][4][5][6][7][8], intersectionality [9,10], and postcoloniality [11,12]. Also subject of conversation were the slippery boundaries of DH and the making of knowledge in this context [13], as well as the risks imbued in DH criticisms taking on zero-sum rhetorics [14].…”

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‘But what for?’ : On the potentials of acknowledging scholastic positionalities

Junck

2022

JDHASA

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Topics around ‘big data’ have both the potential to connect and divide scholars. This paper seeks to highlight some of the conceptual and scholastic exclusions by outlining my experience of entering the DH discipline as an anthropologist. The question ‘but what for?’ that was posed to me at the first conference I attended with regards to my research approach inspired me to think through methodological positionalities more seriously, which tend to reproduce old dissociations of that which can be quantified from everyday experience. An outline of the historical developments of the discipline of anthropology serves as an illustration of how understandings of scholarship (and relationships to other fields of study) may shift over time - and yet become firmly linked to methodological approaches as well as scholarly identities. In making sense of what it means to live in an increasingly data-saturated world and to bring humanistic analysis in conversation with the digital, DH scholars have to take active steps in opening up conceptual frameworks and interdisciplinary communication. This also means including a wider range of humanities scholars and fringe DH views. Grappling with the shifting power dynamics and accelerated changes in lived experience prompted by digitisation, I suggest, should also involve critically engaging with how we as scholars think about ourselves in relation to the methods we use, and becoming comfortable with the idea of their/our incompleteness.

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Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities:

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Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming

Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming

Pedagogies of Scholarly Editing and Digital History in the Seward Family Digital Archive

‘But what for?’ : On the potentials of acknowledging scholastic positionalities

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