I'm in Victoria this week for the DHSI. On Monday 6/5 I'll be presenting at a plenary session at the conference; I'll probably post the text of my brief presentation here sometime tomorrow.
Meanwhile, for new friends visiting this page, here are a few blog posts I have written related to Digital Humanities issues over the past year. (Quite a diverse range of stuff! Now that I've embarked on my own DH project in earnest the range of topics we discuss might narrow.)
In Defense of Digital Tools (by a Non-Tool). My response to the critique of DH in the LARB that appeared last month. The critics of the Digital Humanities make many good points, but their critique is tendentious and aims to demolish the field rather than make it better. I think we can use critique to keep making it better.
http://www.electrostani.com/2016/05/in-defense-of-digital-tools-by-non-tool.html
The Archive Gap: Race, the Canon, and the Digital Humanities. I was proud of this essay, which evolved out of teaching notes in September 2015. If I have my act together I will turn this into a publishable article sometime:
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/09/the-archive-gap-race-canon-and-digital.html
Digital Teaching Notes: The 'Harlem Shadows' Collaborative Project
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/12/digital-teaching-notes-harlem-shadows.html
Syuzhet For Dummies. Where I learned enough R to be able to apply Matthew Jockers' Syuzhet package for sentiment-analysis and assess some of the challenges people have made regarding the way the package visualizes data. I tried applying the package to a series of George Eliot novels.
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/10/syuzhet-sentiment-analysis-of-novels.html
An Account of David Hoover's DHSI 2015 Keynote: Performance, Deformance, Apology. I found this controversial keynote address alternately really interesting and deeply frustrating.
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/06/an-account-david-hoovers-dhsi-2015.html
Meanwhile, for new friends visiting this page, here are a few blog posts I have written related to Digital Humanities issues over the past year. (Quite a diverse range of stuff! Now that I've embarked on my own DH project in earnest the range of topics we discuss might narrow.)
In Defense of Digital Tools (by a Non-Tool). My response to the critique of DH in the LARB that appeared last month. The critics of the Digital Humanities make many good points, but their critique is tendentious and aims to demolish the field rather than make it better. I think we can use critique to keep making it better.
http://www.electrostani.com/2016/05/in-defense-of-digital-tools-by-non-tool.html
The Archive Gap: Race, the Canon, and the Digital Humanities. I was proud of this essay, which evolved out of teaching notes in September 2015. If I have my act together I will turn this into a publishable article sometime:
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/09/the-archive-gap-race-canon-and-digital.html
Fall 2015: Digital Humanities. The syllabus to the course I co-taught with Ed Whitley in Fall 2015. We designed the course with a strong emphasis on social justice.
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/12/digital-teaching-notes-harlem-shadows.html
Syuzhet For Dummies. Where I learned enough R to be able to apply Matthew Jockers' Syuzhet package for sentiment-analysis and assess some of the challenges people have made regarding the way the package visualizes data. I tried applying the package to a series of George Eliot novels.
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/10/syuzhet-sentiment-analysis-of-novels.html
An Account of David Hoover's DHSI 2015 Keynote: Performance, Deformance, Apology. I found this controversial keynote address alternately really interesting and deeply frustrating.
http://www.electrostani.com/2015/06/an-account-david-hoovers-dhsi-2015.html