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Sara Morais
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2 Aug 2013
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Theorizing the Digital SubalternAs digital humanities research at CIS proceeds, a number of critical positions have arisen, making it possible to reconcile questions of humanities with the digital realm. This blog entry focusses on race as a factor of research and how it …
1 Aug 2013
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Digital Humanities Talk at CISIn an attempt to contextualize the digital humanities work within the CIS network of projects, Sara Morais held a talk on the advantages and problems in doing digital humanities work. Following is the transcript of the talk with a video of …
18 Jul 2013
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Digital Humanities for Indian Higher EducationThe digital age has had a huge impact on higher education in the last decade transforming the modalities of both teaching and research. To discuss these changes and what it means for research work, a multidisciplinary consultation was held …
12 Jul 2013
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Towards Critical Tool-buildingThe last blogpost focused on the importance of design for digital humanities research and on the concept of universal design to make research work more inclusive as well as more accessible, the visual being something that digital humanities …
2 Jul 2013
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Designing Change? Gatekeepers in Digital HumanitiesAfter defining the archive as one of the important concepts for digital humanities research, the question arose, whether or not a redefined archive still functions as a gatekeeper. This blog entry follows the question, if the digital …
24 Jun 2013
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Archive Practice and Digital HumanitiesAfter trying to define the field of digital humanities in two prior blog entries, one mapping the field, the other defining its values, the third blog entry in the digital humanities series looks at a reoccurring keyword of digital …
12 Jun 2013
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A suggested set of values for the digital humanitiesIn a prior blog entry the CIS has started mapping out the field of digital humanities. Subsequent to these first thoughts follows a review in several parts of an alternative publishing project edited by Matthew K. Gold of New Yorks …
11 Jun 2013
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Mapping the field of digital humanitiesThis blog is the first in a series of blog entries evolving around digital humanities. As the research proceeds, arising questions will be addressed and attempted to map out, so that we are left with an annotated bibliography of the field …
27 Apr 2013
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Girls in ICT Day at Mitra JyothiThe Centre for Internet and Society organized the first Girls in ICT Day in association with the Mitra Jyothi Trust in Bangalore on April 25, 2013. Sara Morais who participated in the event shares her experiences in this blog post.