Digital Humanities in Intersectional Research: Technologies of oppression and social justice

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Cursusdoel

After completion of this course, students:
A) have learned about different critical feminist engagements with digital data from the perspective of infrastructures, connection, representation, emotions/affect and histories, as well as the debates in which they are part of;
B) have developed skills to put into dialogue digital humanities concepts, tools and perspectives of gender, postcolonial, decolonial, critical race and sexuality studies;
C) are able to decode and assess visualizations or analyses of data;
D) can present alternative readings about the implications of datafication as technologies of oppression and social justice.

Vakinhoudelijk

Only open to students enrolled in the RMA Gender Studies and GEMMA.

In this course, digital humanities is taken as an umbrella term to refer to a humanities-informed approach to the critical study of digital media, data and technology. Digital media production, practice and analysis is addressed through its entanglements with questions of infrastructure, representation, connection, histories, subjectivity, identity, communities, knowledge, power, discourse, and cultural norms. These issues are addressed by introducing students to important conceptual tools and to hands-on engagement with the digital tools developed within what has been named the ‘computational turn’ in the humanities: quantitative and qualitative data analysis tools, network analyses and data visualizations and data management and textual analysis software.
The module specifically addresses how, in the study of cultural-social-geo-political phenomena (e.g., racialised and gendered algorithmic processing by governments or corporations, biometric surveillance, digital migrant and diasporic communities, online activism, distribution of human rights, transnational knowledge exchanges, development NGOs’ enterprises), the use of big data, the visualization of complex information and the workings of algorithms and large databases are increasingly becoming (1) a source of concern and (2) powerful tools to access and affect knowledge production on a global scale.

Aanvullende informatie

Let op: Het getoonde timeslot is nog niet definitief en kan nog wijzigen tot 20 september 2023

Career orientation
The course offers the possibility to engage with cutting-edge scholarship in the digital humanities, which is helpful for shaping the students' future research profile on the academic job market and beyond.

Werkvormen

Seminar
Toelichting

The course offers theoretical and practical approaches to digital humanities. In the first half of the course, an introduction to digital humanities (qualitative and quantitative) data analysis tools, and critical approaches to digital humanities from the field of feminist STS, postcolonial gender studies, and critical race and sexuality studies are offered. The second half of the course offers a hands-on approach to computational methods and DH tools.

Bijdrage

Students work in small groups to engage with computational methods and digital humanities tools.

Voorbereiding

Students are required to read the compulsory study material, and through this to engage in an informed discussion of the course content.

Toetsing

Opdracht

Verplicht | Weging 70% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 1,75

Different written assignments collected in a course portfolio.

To be announced in course syllabus.

Referaat 1

Verplicht | Weging 30% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 0,75

Academic performance in oral form on Research Masters level.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor een van de volgende opleidingen:

  • GEMMA: Master degree in Women's and Gender studies
  • Gender Studies (Research)

Voorkennis

Er is geen informatie over benodigde voorkennis bekend.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de verplichte literatuur bekend


Aanbevolen materiaal

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Coördinator

K.H.A. Leurs PhD k.h.a.leurs@uu.nl

Docenten

K.H.A. Leurs PhD k.h.a.leurs@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 30 oktober 2023 tot en met vrijdag 24 november 2023

Na-inschrijving
Van maandag 22 januari 2024 tot en met dinsdag 23 januari 2024

Inschrijving niet geopend
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