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What digital archives or exhibits (including digital humanities projects) have you found impressive, and why?

Sunday, June 5, 2022 - 10:13am

This was shared by Kim Fortun: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/kaach/principles?authuser=1 ; the clarity in the justification of this group and the procedures they follow are impressive. Transgression of the academic and activism is compelling.

https://mappingcville.com/ A mixture of oral history, archival work, and journalist sleuthing produced the first version of a racial profiling map of Charlottesville, VA. It has much that needs to be improved since it is a relatively new, but for a small scale barely funded project it has proved compelling. I like this work because it starts from testimonial justice and uses available written publications and archives to augment those stories.

https://onthebooks.lib.unc.edu/ Similary to mappingcville, a collaborative space to support a long term investigation of racist language in legal texts. Does not shy from the anti-racist possibilities of machine learning even as ML reinforces so much injustice.

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What experiences have you had as an ethnographer?

Sunday, June 5, 2022 - 9:56am

Field work on integration of bioplastics at the municipal level in the United States, exploration of 'open data' and digital citizenship agendas in Virginia, US; local and global variations of "smart city" in the U.S. and China with a co-ethnographer

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