Indigenous Digital Humanities

Catalog description

Informed by Critical Indigenous Studies methods and analyses, Indigenous Digital Humanities is an area of research and scholarship that is responsive to bridging the gaps between the production and usage of digital technologies and the representation of Indigenous philosophy, pedagogy, language, and ethics in online spaces. Digital Humanities has contributed to complicated intersections of STEM-based technologies and the Humanities, yet the colonial implications of digital technologies are rarely held in dialogue with the production of ethically grounded Indigenous research. In this course, students will examine how specific applications of digital tools and technologies may reinforce colonial digital pedagogies and how Indigenous epistemological interventions are represented and included within a digital world. This course also centers opportunities for student-led learning and discussion tied to engagement with Indigenous-led digital projects that reflect, and address, core concepts and themes that all consumers of digital applications should continue to ask in our increasingly digital world.