Category Archives: Session Proposals

Posts from participants proposing a session.

Session 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 positives? How do we … Continue reading

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Wikipedia 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: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Feminists_Engage_Wikipedia SESSION NOTES

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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 conversation about issues of ethics and materiality when it comes to digitizing … Continue reading

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Feminist 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 part of as an Associate of the Five … Continue reading

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What 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 embarking on their first DH project. … Continue reading

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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 available, user-generated online materials, as well as the networks or … Continue reading

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Linguistic 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 past year as I attempted  to … Continue reading

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Emotion 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, Hochschild showed how this gendered but increasingly common demand in … Continue reading

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Building 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 build and cultivate online communities for two new projects … Continue reading

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Session 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 will be a few blog posts that exemplify … Continue reading

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