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Digital Humanities Alliance of India - Inagural Conference 2018 - Keynote by Puthiya Purayil Sneha
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Jun 26, 2018 12:02 PMThe inaugural conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance of India (DHAI) was held at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore on June 1-2, 2018. The event was co-organised by the IIM and the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, with support from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Puthiya Purayil Sneha was a keynote speaker at the event. Her talk was titled ‘New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital’. Drawing upon excerpts from a study on mapping digital humanities initiatives in India, and ongoing conversations on digital cultural archiving practices, the keynote address discussed some pertinent concerns in the field, particularly with respect to the growth of digital corpora and its intersections with teaching learning practices in arts and humanities, including the need to locate these efforts within the context of the emerging digital landscape in India, and its implications for humanities practice, scholarship and pedagogy.
New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AMThe ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital technologies and internet has always been a rather contentious one, with more debate spurred now due to the growth of fields like humanities computing, digital humanities (henceforth DH) and cultural analytics. Even as these fields signal several shifts in scholarship, pedagogy and practice, portending a futuristic imagination of the role of technology in academia and practice on the one hand, they also reflect continuing challenges related to the digital divide, and more specifically politics around the growth and sustenance of the humanities disciplines. A specific criticism within more recent debates around the origin story of DH in fact, has been its Anglo-American framing, drawing upon a history in humanities computing and textual studies, and located within a larger neoliberal imagination of the university and academia. While this has been met with resistance from across different spaces, thus calling for more diversity and representation in the discourse, it is also reflective of the need to trace and contextualize more local forms of practice and pedagogy in the digital as efforts to address these global concerns. This essay by Puthiya Purayil Sneha draws upon excerpts from a study on the field of DH and related practices in India, to outline the diverse contexts of humanities practice with the advent of the digital and explore the developing discourse around DH in the Indian context.
Digital Native: Web of Wander
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 01, 2018 12:04 AMThe idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant.
Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our times
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 06, 2018 03:21 AMHow digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
Digital Native: Delete Facebook?
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 06, 2018 03:08 AMYou can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.ma
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Jun 25, 2018 12:50 PMThe growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a rethinking of research methods across disciplines as well as innovative modes of creative practice. This chapter authored by Puthiya Purayil Sneha (published in 'Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities' edited by Jentery Sayers) discusses some of the questions that arise around the processes by which digital objects are ‘made’ and made available for arts and humanities research and practice, by drawing on recent work in text and film archival initiatives in India.
Designing Urban Nervous Systems
Mar 27, 2018 from 03:30 PM to 05:30 PM — The Centre for Internet and Society, No.194, 2nd C Cross, Domlur 2nd Stage Bangalore, — by Ambika TandonDr. Anupam Saraph will be holding a talk on 'Designing urban nervous systems' at the CIS on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 3:30 p.m. The talk will revolve around looking at cities as living organisms, with nervous systems at the center of their being.
Digital Native: A new road to justice
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 25, 2018 03:44 AMMaking the List takes courage and strength. It involves the formation of a new collective of care.
Digital native: Our lonely connected lives
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 25, 2018 03:40 AMEven as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
Digital Native: AI Manifesto
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 17, 2018 11:02 AMOur intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
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