Feminist Digital Humanities

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This course focuses on new feminist interventions in the digital humanities emerging from literary, archive, and game studies, as well as history, linguistics, and cultural studies. As an interdisciplinary field, feminist digital humanities bring together a wide range of methods including digital archiving and mapping, information visualization, online exhibitions, and social network mapping. Although the digital humanities are seen as an area of research with many new possibilities, there are many ethical concerns regarding consent, accessibility, privacy, and authorship. We consider how feminist digital humanities address these issues in theory and praxis. To gain an understanding of the many elements of feminist digital humanities, you are asked to participate in seminar discussions, complete small hands-on projects, and complete a final digital humanities project that is relevant to your research interests.