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This volume is a collection of essays in which digital methodologies can engage directly with intersectional feminist scholarship. The sheer volume of data available online (primary and secondary source material, social, political, environmental, personal, etc) offers the opportunity to investigate previously inaccessible or otherwise understudied research topics. Recognizing that the web and material that has been digitized to date is biased towards white, middle-to-upper class men, the contributors explore how digital research, broadly conceived, makes room for alternative methods and approaches and opens the conversation to new voices.
The true promise of digital methods is being able to tell stories that were previously understudied or otherwise ignored on the basis of class, race, gender, etc. Choices of language, data, platform, and variables reveal researchers’ biases and experiences. By sharing stories about the way they choose to do their work, the contributors to this book can offer a more robustly intersectional approach to data-driven humanities research. They foreground method as our unifying theme, seeking discussions of how methodological choices impact the ways of producing meaning.
Heather Froehlich (Edited by)
Heather Froehlich is the Digital Scholarship Specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries.
Kim Martin (Edited by)
Kim Martin is an Associate Professor in History and Culture & Technology Studies at the University of Guelph and the Associate Director of THINC Lab. Her research interests include serendipity, humanities information-seeking, oral history, and interdisciplinarity. Kim’s work has been published in KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies and the Canadian Historical Review. She resides in Guelph, Ontario.
Introduction: The Process of Revealing Meaning – Kim Martin and Heather Froelich
1. Alongside: Reflections on Our Feminist Collaboration – April Patrick, Lindsy Lawrence, Natalie M. Houston
2. <itg subtype=“gender”>: Text Encoding and Intertextuality in the Women Writers Project – Hannah Lee
3. Indian Princesses in the Database: Race, Gender, and Space in Biographies of Pocahontas, E. Pauline Johnson, and Others – Alison Booth
4. Feminist DH as Boundary Projects: In Praise of Cyborg Methods – Susan Brown
5. A Watery Grave in the Sea of Words – Julia C. Stryker
6. Contemporary Digital Scholarship through Co-creation: An Illustrated Journey – Katherine Cook & Beth Compton
7. Personal Entanglements and Graceful Relationship Degradation in Collaborative Projects – Quinn Dombrowski and Erica Cavanaugh
8. Up Close and Personal: Ethical Social Media Research in a Distant and Big Data World – Aimee Morrison and Phil Miletic
9. Revealing the Relational Digital – Jen Shook
10. Beyond Benjamin: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Historic White Male Financial Records – Bethany Farrell
11. Motorcycles, Mindgasms, & Meaning: Navigating the Blind Curves of Digital Scholarship – Stormy Sweitzer
Author Biographies
Bibliography
Copyright Acknowledgements
Index