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The HyperStudio Team


Focus: Digital Publics and Design Praxis

First, André Brock posts slides and citations from his keynote presentation at the 2018 African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities (AADHum) conference in a Tweet thread, pairing theory about black technoculture with relevant readings and quotations. Brock's scholarship links black (and) media studies to the social media practices of online black publics.

Next, Sasha Costanza-Chock publishes an article on their "design justice" framework for designing objects and systems while attending to the multiple intersecting sites of inequality and oppression that coalesce in the design process. Read the full conference paper here.

Additionally, Ed Summers shares his "Ferguson principles" in a blog post, reflecting on processes, tools, and praxis his team in the Documenting the Now project developed for engaged archiving of social media content, with the goal of building a "community of practice" around the archival material and process.

Finally, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) presents its report on the "digital gender divide," with a focus on gaps in "access, use, ownership, and design" of digital technologies. View the full report here, and a summary of key findings here.

Digital Humanities Digest

The University of Michigan releases its digital archive of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Detroit Jewish News, documenting the history of Jewish communities in Southeast Michigan. View the archive here.

The Scholarly Kitchen's Rick Anderson reports on a new public engagement tool from Impactstory called "Get The Research," interviewing the organization's cofounder. Register for early access here.

Sharon Howard writes about the early stages of her project to digitally analyze over 60,000 tattoos on the bodies of incarcerated people in Britain and Australia. View the project overview here.

Kaitlyn Greenidge writes for the New York Times about The Green Book, a segregation-era guide for black travelers in the US. A digital archive of the Green Book is available from NYPL here.

Conferences, Fellowships + Publications

Submissions are due November 15 for Michigan State University's Global Digital Humanities Symposium (21 - 22 March 2019). 

Submissions are due November 27 for ADHO's 2019 Digital Humanities conference in Utrecht (8 - 12 July 2019) for papers, posters, and panels. Workshop and tutorial submissions are due January 10. This year's theme is "Complexity."

Submissions are due December 3 for participation in the Archives Unleashed Datathon in Washington, DC (21 - 22 March 2019).

* Submissions are due December 16 for the 2019 Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH) conference in Brussels (8 - 10 May 2019).

Submissions are due December 17 for the Roy Rosenzweig Center and the Journal of Social History's 2019 and 2020 article development workshop series for a special  issue on digital history.

Submissions are due December 31 for a special issue of Open Theology on "Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology."

Submissions are due December 31 for a special online edition of Big Data & Society focused on "Data Politics."

Applications are due January 15 for the National Endowment of the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (DHAG).

Submissions are due January 15 for David Ramirez Plascencia and David Dalton's edited book, Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants, a part of Brill's Critical Latin America series. 

Submissions are due January 16 for the Time in Space: Geohistorical Applications, Methods, and Theories in GIScience conference in Pisa (26 - 28 June 2019).

Submissions are due March 15 for the special issue of Computers and Composition titled "Rhetorics of Data: Collection, Consent, & Critical Digital Literacies."

* Registration is now open for the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference in Indianapolis (3 - 7 June 2019).

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