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Late but thank you for the wonderful presentation @RojasCastroA - very important! #DHBerlin Since you mentioned minimal computing, I wonder if there's anything that you find especially promising in that regard? (I look forward to the DHQ special issue on the topic.) 1/ https://twitter.com/RojasCastroA/status/1291733032194453504
Every since I heard a talk by @tillgrallert about a digital edition project he realized in Beirut with minimal resources (the electricity cut-offs being but one), this has been on my mind. (Abstract: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/convention-2-abstracts/#grallert.) And now with the terrible catastrophe... 2/
... inequalities are sure to become more entrenched (as you also mentioned re: COVID-19). There are so many issues to talk about here but while cultural criticism has become more prominent in DH in the last 10 years (Fiormonte, Risam, Russell, et al.), as you pointed out... 3/
... it really seems like there is still an unwillingness by the Anglophone and European researchers who dominate the international DH discourse to examine the conditions of their own 'success' and the measures used to gauge it; measures that they create for themselves. 4/
It's a self-reproducing system where the voices of the heard keep being amplified. They cannot conceive that resources might not only be not available but blocked (e.g. through censorship) or that researchers might do their work under the risk of being arrested or worse. 5/
(As I heard about at a symposium from a participant from Pakistan; not DH but humanities and these things are all entangled, just with the added bonus of even more socioeconomic imbalances in connection with technology-heavy DH.) 6/
Another point to add might be what you mentioned with the communication aspect; this is well-known but needs to be said again: the issue of paywalls in academic publishing. Open Access is not a solution when you don't have to pay to read but have to pay to be published OA. 7/
This still disadvantages researchers from the GS & East. That a researcher should have to bear any of those costs is truly an idea of the wealthy. I could go on and on but again, just thanks for picking up on the cultural criticism stream and making so many excellent points. 8/
(As a last note, I have a lot of feelings about this and acknowledge them in my PhD thesis but you won't find me writing whole books or book chapters about the topic because there are much more qualified people to do that and voices that need to be heard more...) 9/
(In DH, aside from ignorance, I see some 'allies' - Anglo, white, cishet men - writing at length about diversity or feminism and I'm sure they're well-intentioned but sometimes progress is to step aside and give someone else your platform. I wish they'd realize that.) 10/
(... by which I don't mean you obviously! Thanks for spreaking up!)
