Category Digital Humanities

ChatGPT, Exploitative Labour and the Digital Humanities
I asked ChatGPT to help me address the problem of invisible labour, including the exploitation of students and staff, in the digital humanities. The conversation includes ChatGPT’s thoughts on how artificial intelligence can help to address these issues.

Recoding Relations: Episode 3, Decolonial Digital
In Episode 3 we discuss how people studying and working in Indigenous studies and DH understand and define digital technologies. We also introduce some of the politics involved in working across and between these fields.

20 Books on New Media and Social Justice
A reading list on new media and social justice that looks at how technology and social media affect society. Read these books if you want to know how new media impacts our lives.

Using the Digital Humanities in Indigenous Studies Classrooms
Six digital humanities assignments to use in Indigenous studies classrooms. Including Wikipedia, Twine, Netlytic. Audacity and more.

Recoding Relations: Episode 2, Indigeneity in DH
Listen to the episode here In Episode 2 we explore what Indigeneity might mean within the digital humanities. We listen to pieces by Jordan Abel, Michelle Nahanee, and Maize Longboat about their Indigeneity and how that manifests in the work they do. Jordan touches on his back story and how that inspired the creation of […]

Recoding Relations: Episode 1, People Over Tools
Listen to part one of Recoding Relations, a four part podcast series on Indigenous Studies and the Digital Humanities.

Recoding Relations: Dispatches from the Symposium for Indigenous New Media
David Gaertner and Melissa Haberl In June 2018, scholars, developers, artists, and community members from over twenty institutions and three continents gathered on the ancestral and unceded territory of the WSÁNEĆ, Lkwungen, and Wyomilth peoples to participate in the inaugural Symposium for Indigenous New Media (SINM). As part of the University of Victoria’s annual Digital […]

Recoding Relations: Dispatches from the Symposium for Indigenous New Media
David Gaertner and Melissa Haberl In June 2018, scholars, developers, artists, and community members from over twenty institutions and three continents gathered on the ancestral and unceded territory of the WSÁNEĆ, Lkwungen, and Wyomilth peoples to participate in the inaugural Symposium for Indigenous New Media (SINM). As part of the University of Victoria’s annual Digital […]

Decolonial DH?: The Maker Movement Across Indigenous Studies and the Digital Humanities
Text from my keynote for DHSI@Congress. June 5, 2019. Good morning! It is so wonderful to be here with here with you during Congress 2019. This community has meant so much to me in my career, first as a grad student and now as a teacher and researcher, so it’s an honour to be with […]

Decolonial Digital Humanities?: DH and Indigenous Studies
Indigenous studies and the digital humanities are at odds on a number of different levels, but in its emphasis on maker culture and “low-tech” development, DH offers a potential space for collaboration.