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Theories and Practices of
Postcolonial Digital
Humanities
Adeline Koh, Richard Stockton College
Roopika Risam, Salem State University
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
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#dhpoco
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#dhpoco Origins
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#dhpoco Comics
http://dhpoco.tumblr.com/tagged/comics
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
#dhpoco Website
http://dhpoco.org
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
Mission Statement
• Technology
is not
culturally
neutral
• Technology
contains
global
structural
inequalities
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
Defining #dhpoco
Productive
intersections
between
postcolonial
studies and
digital
humanities
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
Defining #dhpoco
• Emergent field of study
• Draws from postcolonial studies and digital
humanities
• Brings together global analyses of knowledge
and power from postcolonial studies with
praxis-driven inquiry of digital humanities
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
Goals of #dhpoco
• Foreground anticolonial thought by
decolonizing computation, code, and digital
cultures
• Disrupt narratives of technological progress
through global-oriented inquiry
• Build a community of scholars committed to
global analyses of power in digital humanities
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
#dhpoco Concepts
• Technological strategies for counter-discourse
• Critical assessments of language and cultural
imperialism
• Excavating networked knowledge
• Material approaches to digital humanities
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
#dhpoco Concepts
• Archival silences and interventions
• Multivocality in digital spaces
• Identity-oriented approaches to technology
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
#dhpoco in Practice
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
#dhpoco in Practice
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
#dhpoco in Practice
Global
Women
Wikipedia
Write-In
#GWWI
March 18,
2014
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
#dhpoco in Practice
Coming this
summer:
#dhpoco
Summer
School 2014
@adelinekoh @roopikarisam #dhpoco
Join #dhpoco
• Submit a post for the #dhpoco website
• Host a node of the Rewriting Wikipedia
Project, March 18, 2014
• Join us for #dhpoco Summer School, Summer
2014
• Submit an essay for our upcoming Ada special
issue on gender, globalization, and technology

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