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Leah Junck deposited Between Phallus and Freedom: An Ethnography on the Embodied Experiences of Tinder Users in Cape Town in the group
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThis presentation discusses whether the dating application Tinder and similarly organized applications reinforce rigid gender and other identities and addresses the potential of technologically enhanced selves to contest them. Notions of identity as well as aspects of power and agency in the context of dating apps are discussed by referring to…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited Towards an African Indigenous Model of Communication for Software Development in Digital Humanities in the group
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDrawing insight from Toyin Falola’s call for African scholars to Africanize knowledge, this paper is an attempt to Africanize digital technological tools being used for research in African studies. Our aim is to address the challenges confronting scholars in African Studies, especially across the disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, in their d…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola started the topic Benefit of Digital Data from Africa to DH Global Communities in the discussion
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat more can we do to make the different stakeholders, such as language communities, benefit from the huge amount of digital data that has been produced for African and other languages?
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Kristen Mapes started the topic DH Pedagogy Resources in the discussion
Global Digital Humanities Symposium on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoTo continue the conversation and spark new strategies for incorporating DH into our pedagogy.