Slides for the presentation I gave at the Princeton University Digital Humanities Initiative in November 2013. https://digitalhumanities.princeton.edu/2013/11/15/speaker-series-announcement-adeline-koh/

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Adeline Koh!
Richard Stockton College!
Postcolonial Digital
Humanities
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Concepts and Challenges

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#DHPoco: How it Began
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#DHPoco
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Began with a Twitter hashtag"
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Coproduction with Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam),
assistant prof. of world literature at Salem State
University
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#DHPoco: How it Began
Tumblr: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com
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#DHPoco Comics
#DHPoco Comics: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com/tagged/comics
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#DHPoco Comics
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dhpoco.org

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Mission Statement
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Technology is not culturally
neutral"
Technology contains global
structural inequalities

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#DHPoco Core Tenets
productive intersections between !
postcolonial studies and digital humanities
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Master’s Tools"
Master’s Language"
Human versus Computational
Languages
Intersections
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#DHPoco
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Emergent field of study"
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Draws from postcolonial studies and digital humanities"
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Goals:"
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Decolonizing digital products and cultures"
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Foregrounding anticolonial thought"
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Disrupting narratives of technological and global
progress
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15. UN Women Awareness
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@adelinekoh

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Algorithms as Social Mirror?
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Anna Jobin (@annajobin) asks: “Who is in charge when
algorithms are in charge?” "
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@annajobin: “Algorithms are more than a technological
issue: they involve not only automated data analysis,
but also decision-making.”
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Challenges
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Resistance"
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Privilege"
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Access"
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Language
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#DHPoco website"
dhpoco.org"
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Accepting Submissions!
Projects
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22. MLA 2014
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Opportunities to Work with #DHPoco
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Submit to the #DHPoco website"
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Host a node of the Rewriting Wikipedia Project"
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MLA 2014"
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Possible DHPoco Special Interest Group in the ADHO
(Assn of Digital Humanities Organizations)"
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Contact Adeline Koh (@adelinekoh) or Roopika Risam
(@roopikarisam)
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