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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
Network for Digital Humanities in Africa on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 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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Sherri Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoI became involved with OA books when I was the Coordinator of the Humanities Collection Group (Huma) at the UC Santa Barbara Library. Open access publishing and scholarly communication librarianship were just beginning to trend in academic libraries. It was 2009, and it was mostly about journal publishing in STEM fields. I asked Huma members (…[Read more]
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Benito Trollip deposited Identifying relations between characters in Afrikaans, Tshivenḓa, and Xitsonga books in the group
Network for Digital Humanities in Africa on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe usefulness of computational linguistic tools, such as named entity recognition (NER) systems, in linguistic or literary studies of under-resourced languages is an area that is still relatively unexplored. In this study the CTexTools2 NER system, which perform NER on all official South African languages, are applied to one Afrikaans novel and…[Read more]
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Augustine Farinola deposited DIGITAL HUMANITIES SCHOLARSHIP IN AFRICA: Prospects and Challenges in the group
Network for Digital Humanities in Africa on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis research addresses the issues surrounding the low level of Digital Humanities (DH) technological consciousness among students and academics in the humanities discipline in Africa (Nigeria). The study, using online questionnaires, shows that despite the wide acceptance of DH Technological tools among some African scholars in the humanities,…[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
Network for Digital Humanities in Africa on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 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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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoReading books is something I personally enjoy. Books, whether these are scholarly books or non-scholarly books provide readers with an extensive and rich resource that can go into a level of detail and explore connections other formats cannot.
Books provide the author with an opportunity to tell an elaborate story, provide much needed context…[Read more]
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Robert Tweheyo deposited A digital assessment tool for monitoring and planning food security interventions in rural households of Uganda in the group
Network for Digital Humanities in Africa on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn this paper, a digital assessment tool that is used to monitor food security in rural homesteads is presented. It provides instant results in the form of statistics that can help in planning for appropriate interventions. Food security is an essential and universal ingredient of any community’s well-being. The fact that food security is a c…[Read more]
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