My part of my presentation for "Scholarly Writing in the Digital Milieu" at Emory's Center for Faculty Development and Excellence! http://cfde.emory.edu/workshops/calendar.html?trumbaEmbed=eventid%3D108883238%26view%3Devent%26-childview%3D

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Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam!
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Postcolonial Digital
Humanities
From Hashtag to Movement
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@adelinekoh & @roopikarisam

2. #DHPoco
❖ “Postcolonial Digital Humanities”"
❖ Started by Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam"
❖ How can we draw methodologies from both fields to
usefully create a new one?
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3. #DHPoco: How it Began
@adelinekoh
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4. #DHPoco
❖ Began with a Twitter hashtag"
❖ Coproduction with Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam),
assistant prof. of world literature at Salem State
University
@adelinekoh
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5. #DHPoco: How it Began
@adelinekoh
Tumblr: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com
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6. #DHPoco Comics
@adelinekoh
#DHPoco Comics: http://dhpoco.tumblr.com/tagged/comics
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7. #DHPoco Comics
@adelinekoh
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Join us #GWWI ALL DAY March 18

8. dhpoco.org
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9. And finally…
#DHPoco:
The Book!
Hopefully forthcoming 2015.
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10. Mission Statement
Technology is not culturally
neutral"
Technology contains global
structural inequalities
@adelinekoh
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11. #DHPoco Core Tenets
productive intersections between !
postcolonial studies and digital humanities
@adelinekoh
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12. Intersections
Master’s Tools"
Master’s Language"
Human versus Computational
Languages
@adelinekoh
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13. #DHPoco
❖ Emergent field of study"
❖ Draws from postcolonial studies and digital humanities"
❖ Goals:"
❖ Decolonizing digital products and cultures"
❖ Foregrounding anticolonial thought"
❖ Disrupting narratives of technological and global
progress
@adelinekoh
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16. UN Women Awareness
@adelinekoh
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17. Algorithms as Social Mirror?
❖ Anna Jobin (@annajobin) asks: “Who is in charge when
algorithms are in charge?” "
❖ @annajobin: “Algorithms are more than a technological
issue: they involve not only automated data analysis,
but also decision-making.”
@adelinekoh
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18. Projects
#DHPoco website"
dhpoco.org"
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Accepting Submissions!
@adelinekoh
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Join us tomorrow!
10 am to 12 noon in the commons area on the
first floor of the Woodruff Library (outside of Jazzman's Café)
Tweet using #GWWI
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