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Identity Politics in the Digital
Humanities


    Vicky Ludas
    697-04 Digital Humanities
    Dr. Sula
    February 1, 2012
What is "Identity Politics"?
The general term for groups that consciously separate themselves
from the dominant narrative of straight white well-off males, in the
U.S. and elsewhere
   Gender/Sexuality studies
      Women's studies
      GLBTQ studies/Queer theory
      Masculinity studies
   Race/Ethnic studies
Questioning assumptions; looking at each group and subgroup as
subject to different and distinct pressures, needs, and relationships
with other groups
Identity Politics and Digital Humanities
As DH has now become the umbrella term for a variety of approaches and
projects, what is DH?

                                             Computer science majors: 90% men
                                                  Wikipedia editors: 87% men

Coding  not neutral
Critique  not irrelevant
Both should be taught!


           The "Cool Kids' Table" meme struck many as exclusive:

   "Is this field actually constructing itself through competing narratives of
privileged, middle-class, white, high-school politics in tension with privileged,
             middle-class, white people who work 'nicely' together?"
                  (Bianco, J., 2012, Debates in the DH, pp. 99-100)
Means and Methods
Blogs and online discussion forums
Gaming, especially Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing
Games (MMORPGs)
   Performance art
Distant reading
Text analysis
Collaborative Google Docs
Twitter


          “Becoming Dragon,” Micha Cardenas, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEDym1aOZs
Themes
                            Alan Turing




              The Gender Genie: http://bookblog.net/gender/analysis.php
Turing Test, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_Game#Versions_of_the_Turing_test
Themes

Undermining gender norms:
      Technology




        http://www.queertechnologies.info/products/engendering-gender-changers/
                http://www.queertechnologies.info/products/transcoder/
Undermining gender norms: Gaming


                                            I create butch and gender-non-
                                        normative avatars with different video
                                        game avatar systems. My project seeks
                                        to test and understand the boundaries
                                        of customizable avatars in commercial
                                        video games and analyze this aesthetic
                                        flexibility with relation to how gender,
                                           race, and sexuality function in the
                                         game’s procedures. This is Blade, my
                                              female avatar from Fable II.

                                          -Amanda Phillips, University of California, Santa
                                                             Barbara




http://transformdh.tumblr.com/post/12044907245/i-create-butch-and-gender-non-normative-avatars
Projects
Transform DH
    #transformDH  http://transformdh.tumblr.com/  http://transformdh.org/
       "Transform": not "to change,” but more "what can it become?”

"Toward an Open Digital Humanities" Google Doc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uPtB0xr793V27vHBmBZr87LY6Pe1BLxN-_DuJzqG-wU

 "...[D]igital humanities must take active strides to include all the areas of study that
     comprise the humanities and must strive to include participants of diverse age,
     generation, sex, skill, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, ability, nationality,
     culture, discipline, areas of interest. ”

HASTAC's Queer and Feminist New Media Spaces forum
http://hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/queer-feminist-new-media-spaces

The Feminist Humanities Project at University of Oregon
http://fhp.uoregon.edu/
Digital Sisterhood Network
http://digitalsisterhood.wordpress.com/

Center for Digital Storytelling: Identity
http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=7

Invisible Australians
http://invisibleaustralians.org/

The Transborder Immigrant Tool
http://post.thing.net/node/1642


Blogs:
    Queer Geek Theory, http://www.queergeektheory.org/
    Looping Threads, http://loopingthreads.com/
    Works Cited, http://nataliacecire.blogspot.com/
Questions?...

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Identity politics in the Digital Humanities

  • 1. Identity Politics in the Digital Humanities Vicky Ludas 697-04 Digital Humanities Dr. Sula February 1, 2012
  • 2. What is "Identity Politics"? The general term for groups that consciously separate themselves from the dominant narrative of straight white well-off males, in the U.S. and elsewhere Gender/Sexuality studies Women's studies GLBTQ studies/Queer theory Masculinity studies Race/Ethnic studies Questioning assumptions; looking at each group and subgroup as subject to different and distinct pressures, needs, and relationships with other groups
  • 3. Identity Politics and Digital Humanities As DH has now become the umbrella term for a variety of approaches and projects, what is DH? Computer science majors: 90% men Wikipedia editors: 87% men Coding  not neutral Critique  not irrelevant Both should be taught! The "Cool Kids' Table" meme struck many as exclusive: "Is this field actually constructing itself through competing narratives of privileged, middle-class, white, high-school politics in tension with privileged, middle-class, white people who work 'nicely' together?" (Bianco, J., 2012, Debates in the DH, pp. 99-100)
  • 4. Means and Methods Blogs and online discussion forums Gaming, especially Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) Performance art Distant reading Text analysis Collaborative Google Docs Twitter “Becoming Dragon,” Micha Cardenas, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEDym1aOZs
  • 5. Themes Alan Turing The Gender Genie: http://bookblog.net/gender/analysis.php Turing Test, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_Game#Versions_of_the_Turing_test
  • 6. Themes Undermining gender norms: Technology http://www.queertechnologies.info/products/engendering-gender-changers/ http://www.queertechnologies.info/products/transcoder/
  • 7. Undermining gender norms: Gaming I create butch and gender-non- normative avatars with different video game avatar systems. My project seeks to test and understand the boundaries of customizable avatars in commercial video games and analyze this aesthetic flexibility with relation to how gender, race, and sexuality function in the game’s procedures. This is Blade, my female avatar from Fable II. -Amanda Phillips, University of California, Santa Barbara http://transformdh.tumblr.com/post/12044907245/i-create-butch-and-gender-non-normative-avatars
  • 8. Projects Transform DH #transformDH  http://transformdh.tumblr.com/  http://transformdh.org/ "Transform": not "to change,” but more "what can it become?” "Toward an Open Digital Humanities" Google Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uPtB0xr793V27vHBmBZr87LY6Pe1BLxN-_DuJzqG-wU "...[D]igital humanities must take active strides to include all the areas of study that comprise the humanities and must strive to include participants of diverse age, generation, sex, skill, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, ability, nationality, culture, discipline, areas of interest. ” HASTAC's Queer and Feminist New Media Spaces forum http://hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/queer-feminist-new-media-spaces The Feminist Humanities Project at University of Oregon http://fhp.uoregon.edu/
  • 9. Digital Sisterhood Network http://digitalsisterhood.wordpress.com/ Center for Digital Storytelling: Identity http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=7 Invisible Australians http://invisibleaustralians.org/ The Transborder Immigrant Tool http://post.thing.net/node/1642 Blogs: Queer Geek Theory, http://www.queergeektheory.org/ Looping Threads, http://loopingthreads.com/ Works Cited, http://nataliacecire.blogspot.com/

Notas do Editor

  1. Coding- binary - reduces shading and difference
  2. As one of the founders of computer science was unable to live freely as a gay man and subsequently committed suicide, DH cannot allow itself to co-opt and overlook key differences among those who would participate in it.
  3. Queer Technologies- art project by Zach Blas transCoder - "a queer programming anti-language" that allows coders to queer their code the engendering gender changers lets people get out of the binary male/female serial adapter tradition with the female to power-bottom or female to CEO adapters - "political accessory"
  4. Gaming- esp Second Life, World of Warcraft, other MMORPGs   how they can queer time, space, gender, range of variation allowed
  5. Transformdh.org - brand new, just began a few weeks ago, still rather slim in terms of entries but a popular topic among Dhers Came out of an impulse following MLA 2011 last January when some felt excluded from the so-called CKT and felt DH should include everyone who was working in it
  6. Toward an Open DH: later criticized for not including the issue of "social justice" as it relates to the resources needed to be able to make use of DH techniques and skills Transborder Immigrant tool – “disturbance art project,” “a provocative mobile art app” http://victoria2011.thatcamp.org/06/09/digital-humanities-social-justice-does-not-compute/ Becoming Dragon- 365 hours spent as a dragon in Second Life to match the year transgender people are supposed to live as their preferred gender before they can have the full surgery avatars maybe = how trans people feel in the genders they were born in but do not feel. being in it, motion capture, real-time streaming data.