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Intersections: Feminism, Technology and Digital Humanities

Funder: UK Research and InnovationProject code: AH/V00199X/1
Funded under: AHRC Funder Contribution: 23,804 GBP

Intersections: Feminism, Technology and Digital Humanities

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The Digital Humanities are important. They are a mechanism for interrogating and contributing to digital transformation. But just as that transformation has often reproduced or intensified inequalities, so has DH. Through a series of workshops, this project will develop an approach that confronts and challenges these limitations to DH's positive impact on society and culture. Drawing on intersectional feminism, its goal is to build an inclusive and responsive DH able to grapple with complex social needs. DH responds to digitally driven transformations of society, culture, and knowledge production. It can allow us to research differently, identify what is at stake as we change ourselves and our world. We can respond to contemporary concerns that digital technologies are toxic by exploring new forms the digital could take and by building new understandings of digital possibilities. But to do this successfully, inclusively, and to its full potential, we have to change technological cultures. That means we have to change DH. In response to these concerns, our network explores feminist thinking as a necessary resource for DH; not an add on but something that needs to be intrinsic. Feminist approaches are needed to shape DH so it can respond to structural inequality beyond its boundaries. DH needs intersectional feminism to develop practices with these inequalities in mind. Much has already been achieved within DH, but not enough. By building a network of concerned practitioners, we seek to create a DH sensitive to gender issues in the academy and beyond; one that can intervene in the cultural industries, work with communities, respond to new media forms and share new practices. This matters now and for the future. A sustained engagement with the politics of technology means feminist thinking is well placed to explore questions raised by artificial intelligence, increasingly lively algorithms, and machine learning as they develop. An intersectional feminist framework offers a set of lenses and new models to critique the practices, policies and objects produced by existing and future DH projects. Our network gathers a diverse range of theorists, practitioners, scholars at all career stages, digital librarians, technicians, artists and archivists to explore how to build a different - and better - technology-gender relation. Our activities cross the following challenge areas: Coding and Programming Praxis: Data injustice is part of a larger formation including the devaluing of women's labour in tech industries and in the academy. These injustices shape the nature of coded objects and the practices of coding. We will explore these inequalities in Ireland and the UK through critical coding workshops, performance and collaborative writing work. Intersectional Feminist Theory: Intersectional feminism can conceptualize emerging forms of digital scholarship as new technologies challenge traditional assumptions (of authorship, ownership, mastery, explainability, memory, the archive). We ask what feminist theory is needed today and how we can build it. Feminist Digital Methods: How do feminist and critical interventions into the digital disrupt hegemonic practices (e.g. community archives, decolonizing projects, coding initiatives)? How do we generate these disruptions and what and how can DH learn from these? These questions will be explored in a series of 3 workshops, a collaborative writing project and a public talk. We will produce a manifesto to guide DH to more inclusive and critical futures, develop new research projects, and build a community of critical practitioners and scholars.

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