Tad Suiter – THAT CAMP New England 2017 http://newengland2017.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:40:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Proposal: What Counts as #DH, and Making #DH Count http://newengland2017.thatcamp.org/2017/03/25/proposal-what-counts-as-dh-and-making-dh-count/ Sat, 25 Mar 2017 02:43:41 +0000 http://newengland2017.thatcamp.org/?p=174

For more experienced Campers, this topic is well-worn, I know. It’s a discussion I’ve had at every THATCamp I’ve attended. But it’s one that never fails to get me to think. I think it’s evergreen.

Basically, a free-wheeling discussion about advocacy, communication, community, and labor within the digital humanities. Topics would include (but in no way be limited to):

  • How do we describe the digital humanities? What “counts” as DH? What maybe doesn’t? Why?
  • Are people in adjacent roles, like digital archivists, and digital librarians, “doing DH”? How much does the distinction matter?
  • Who are the gatekeepers for all of the above?
  • Is critical code theory part of DH’s “big tent?”
  • Is DH’s “big tent” really that big?
  • Content vs. Making/Programming: The Hack/Yack dichotomy.
  • How to make DH-skeptical colleagues (and, oh, say, tenure committees) see the value of DH.
  • How to curb or counteract tech-crazed administrators who may not understand that DH is not a panacea.
  • How do we do DH outreach and inreach?
  • Issues of labor, collaboration, & crediting in DH projects.
  • DH and the neoliberal university.

Really, I’m just wanting to establish a space for wide-ranging higher-level conversation. I think it’d be a break from all the tool-learning and skill-building, and a good opportunity to engage critically with the fundamental concept of “digital humanities,” as it undergirds this whole (un)conference.

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