A short overview how digital humanities methods have been utilized in the varied field of identity politics. I focused on gender/sexuality studies because another presentation more closely examined race/ethnic studies. I used this PPT theme because I found it interesting that the ink splatter was meant to look old but was really made up of pixels, and when you're working in a field that makes so much use of literary/other criticism you find yourself looking critically at EVERYTHING.

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/

10. Questions?...