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In June, just after describing its proposed neighbor delivery system, Amazon announced that it would be instituting a new payment system for authors who use its Kindle Select publishing platform (in other words, authors for whom Amazon functions as both publisher and distributor), according to which authors will be paid each time readers turn the…
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jmoenig/Snap–Build-Your-Own-Blocks
jmoenig/Snap–Build-Your-Own-Blocks Snap! has a new release with interesting experimental features. Snap! is an open source visual programming environment based on Scratch. Snap! tends to extend the capabilities and opportunities presented by Scratch in interesting ways. There is an ongoing tension between ease of learning and what I will call an advanced feature set. What Mitch…
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The freedom of being a bird girl isn’t without its dangers
The freedom of being a bird girl isn’t without its dangers posted for future reference for an ongoing project.
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Culture consists of all the products of a society that are created over time and shared by members of that society. The term nonmaterial culture refers to all the nonphysical products of society that are created over time and shared: knowledge, beliefs, customs, values, morals, and so on. Nonmaterial culture also includes common patterns of…
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rebeccasugar: Painting some chickens in the yard
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cinoh: This is one of 12 rain forest landscapes by Abel Rodriguez, part of his ink-and-watercolor series Ciclo anual del bosque de la vega (Seasonal changes in the flooded rain forest). Abel Rodriguez/Courtesy of Tropenbos International, Colombia A Self-Taught Artist Paints The Rain Forest By Memory Looking at the painting above, it’s easy to imagine…
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cinoh: Fibers from the fique plant, dyed with natural pigments by artist Susana Mejia, are part of the Waterweavers exhibit. In the photo above, the fibers hang to dry in the Amazon jungle. Jorge Montoya
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De/Post/Colonial Digital Humanities – HILT 2015
De/Post/Colonial Digital Humanities – HILT 2015 From Sandra Harding’s interventions in postcolonial science studies to Radhika Gajjala’s articulation of digital subalternity to Kavita Philip’s work on postcolonial computing, postcolonial approaches to technology have provoked lively discussion. New conversations have emerged around essential questions: can the digital be “decolonized?”; what are the limits of decolonial, postcolonial,…
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Social Justice and the Digital Humanities
Social Justice and the Digital Humanities The living document on this site, “Creative and Critical Precepts for Digital Humanities Projects,” emerged from the De/Post/Colonial Digital Humanities course at HILT 2015. The course originated when Jennifer Guiliano and Trevor Muñoz invited Roopika Risam to teach a course on postcolonial approaches to the digital humanities for HILT.…
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What the Backyard Games brought to the table, though, was an innocence that allowed for the games to be fairly subversive for their time. Backyard Baseball put boys and girls on an even playing field—well, some of the fields were in a little better shape than others—with power hitters like Jocinda Smith and Keisha Phillips…