This essay examines the use of smartphone applications for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic through the theory of algorithmic governmentality. It considers the drive toward personalization associated with contemporary technology as highly compatible with the biopolitics of these government-supported frameworks. The contact tracing…[Read more]

This is the Call for Papers for Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy, which was originally published in January 2019 at http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2019_pedagogy.html. The site no longer exists, so we are depositing it here for archival and citational purposes.

Cultural Analytics is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of literary studies, critical approaches, statistics, or data analysis. This course provides an overview of emergent quantitative methods and theories used by humanists to study data in text and text as data. As we examine these objects, we’ll ask questions about the d…[Read more]