Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism

As the field of digital humanities has grown in size and scope, the question of how to navigate a scholarly community that is diverse in geography, language, and participant demographics has become pressing. An increasing number of initiatives have sought to address these concerns, both in scholarship—as in work on postcolonial digital humanities or #transformDH—and through new organizational structures like the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization’s (ADHO) Multi-Lingualism and Multi-Culturalism Committee and Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH), a special interest group of ADHO. From the work of GO::DH in particular, an important perspective has emerged: digital humanities, as a field, can only be inclusive and its diversity can only thrive in an environment in which local specificity—the unique concerns that influence and define digital humanities at regional and national levels—is positioned at its center and its global dimensions are outlined through an assemblage of the local. This idea was at the core of my Digital Humanities 2014 talk, in which I suggested that accent is a fitting metaphor for negotiating the relationships among local contexts. Similarly, at Digital Diversity 2015, Padmini Ray Murray insisted, “Your DH is not my DH—and that is a good thing.”Claire Warwick reiterated this idea in her DHSI 2015 keynote speech, suggesting that local institutions and cultures are critical to digital humanities practice. Additionally, in her talk at the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities and Association for Computers and the Humanities joint conference in 2015, Élika Ortega posited, “All DH is local DH.” The insistent resurfacing of this theme at digital humanities conferences signals a critical need for sustained theorization of the relationship between local and global in scholarship and practice

Building An Ethical Digital Humanities Community: Librarian, Faculty, and Student Collaboration

This article examines work building a digital humanities community at Salem State’s Berry Library. The initiatives are comprised of a three-pronged approach: laying groundwork to build a DH center, building the DH project Digital Salem as a place-based locus for digital scholarship and launching an undergraduate internship program to explore ethical ways of creating innovative research experiences for undergraduate students. Together, these initiatives constitute an important move toward putting libraries at the center of creating DH opportunities for underserved student populations and a model for building DH at regional comprehensive universities

Analisis Kelayakan Investasi TI Aplikasi Blood Bank Information System (BLOOBIS) Pada PMI Provinsi Jawa Timur Menggunkan Cost Benefit Analysis

BlooBIS adalah sebuah aplikasi berbasis web yang akan membantu lembaga penyedia darah di Indonesia yaitu PMI untuk bekerja lebih cepat dan terintegrasi. PMI dalam rencana investasi dalam penerapan aplikasi ini adalah dengan tujuan untuk meningkatkan pelayanan darah pada Unit Donor Darah dan Unit Transfusi Darah agar dapat terintegrasi, efisien dan memenuhi ekspektasi masyarakat. Sebelum menerapkan aplikasi BlooBIS, perlu dilakukan analisis kelayakan dengan mempertimbangkan factor biaya dan manfaat untuk memastikan PMI Provinsi Jawa Timur akan menerima keuntungan yaitu peningkatan layanan darah dan tidak terjadi kerugian dalam pemilihan keputusan investasi. Metode yang digunakan dalam analisis kelayakan yaitu Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) dengan membandingkan biaya yang dikeluarkan dengan manfaat yang diterima. Untuk biaya dan manfaat yang bersifat intangible akan di identifikasi menggunakan DNA of Tangibility dan di convert menjadi tangible menggunakan metode Shrink. Dalam metode ini menggunakan beberapa tools perhitungan yaitu: NPV, ROI, PP dan PI. Sebelum melakukan analisis, harus mengidentifikasi komponen yang nantinya dijadikan sebagai variable perhitungan proyek. Penelitian ini menghasilkan dokumen analisis kelayakan investasi yang berisikan rekomendasi beberapa alternatif investasi yang dapat dijadikan oleh pihak PMI Jawa Timur sebagai pertimbangan dalam pengambilan keputusan dari segi kelayakan ekonomis atau finansial. ============================================================================================================================= BlooBIS is a web based application that will help blood providers in Indonesia, namely the Indonesian Red Cross to work faster and more integrated. Indonesian Red Cross in investment plans in this application is the application with the goal to improve services at the Blood Donor Unit blood and blood transfusion unit to be integrated, efficient and meets the public expectations. Before applying BlooBIS application, feasibility analysis is needed to consider the cost and benefit factors to ensure the East Java Indonesian Red Cross will receive a benefit which is an increase in blood services and there is no loss in the selection of investment decision. The method used in the feasibility analysis is Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) by comparing the costs with the benefits received. For costs and intangible benefits will be identified using the DNA of tangibility and converted into tangible using Shrink method. In this method uses several calculation tools, namely: NPV, ROI, PP and PI. Before performing the analysis, should identify the components that will be used as the variable calculation project. The results of this final project is a document that contains the investment feasibility analysis of several alternative investment recommendations that can be used by the Indonesian Red Cross as a consideration in the decision making in terms of economic or financial feasibility

Revising History and Re-authouring the Left in the Postcolonial Digital Archive.

In November 2013, the National Archives of Britain revealed a secret stash of declassified colonial documents that had been hidden illegally by the Foreign Office for decades past their allotted 30-year suppression period. The archive includes: [M]onthly intelligence reports on the ‘elimination’ of the colonial authority’s enemies in 1950s Malaya; records showing ministers in London were aware of the torture and murder of Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, including a case of a man said to have been ‘roasted alive’; and papers detailing the lengths to which the UK went to forcibly remove islanders from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Among the horrors revealed in the million-plus files appear tales of bonfires held at the end of empire. The Orwellian-titled “Operation Legacy” spawned diplomatic missions to British colonies on the eve of independence charged with destroying evidence that, in the words of colonial secretary Iain Macleod, “might embarrass Her Majesty’s government … embarrass members of the police, military forces, public servants or others, e.g. police informers.”2 The missions were planned in excruciating detail: “the waste [burnt documents] should be reduced to ash and the ashes broken up … [records disposed at sea] packed in weighted crates and dumped in very deep and current-free water at maximum practicable distance from the coast.”3 News of the records first came to light during a trial in which Kenyan men and women alleged mistreatment during the Mau Mau revolt against British colonial rule. British historians, in particular, were enraged by the secret archive; as Cambridge professor Anthony Badger, who was appointed to oversee the declassification, has written, “It is difficult to overestimate the legacy of suspicion among historians, lawyers and journalists...”4 that has resulted from news of the hidden archive’s existence. Indeed, disclosure of these records reminds us that the imperial archive remains with us, in both literal and figurative terms

Penerapan model Flipped Classroom berbasis animaker untuk meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis peserta didik pada materi usaha dan energi

Keterampilan berpikir kritis merupakan salah satu keterampilan yang harus ditingkatkan oleh peserta didik. Selain itu, perkembangan teknologi yang berkembang secara pesat menjadi peluang yang dapat dimanfaatkan dalam pembelajaran. Model flipped classroom berbasis animaker menjadi salah satu alternatif untuk meningkatkan keterampilan tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui kelayakan media animaker, keterlaksanaan model flipped classroom, dan peningkatan keterampilan berpikir kritis peserta didik. Metode yang digunakan yaitu pre experiment dengan one group pretest posttest design. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menghitung persentase lembar observasi keterlaksanaan serta persentase nilai LKPD, lembar validasi, N-gain, dan uji paired sampel t-test. Sampel pada penelitian ini yaitu peserta didik kelas X MIA MA Al-Fadlliyah yang berjumlah 19 orang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kelayakan animaker sebesar 91,8% kategori sangat layak, keterlaksanaan aktivitas guru sebesar 92% kategori sangat baik, keterlaksanaan aktivitas peserta didik sebesar 89% kategori sangat baik, keterlaksanaan berdasarakan persentase LKPD sebesar 76% kategori baik, serta peningkatan ketrampilan berpikir kritis peserta didik masuk pada kategori sedang dengan nilai N-gain sebesar 0,70%. Hasil pengujian hipotesis menggunakan uji-t dengan α = 0,05 memperoleh nilai thitung 26,34 dan ttabel 2,10092 (thitung > ttabel) maka, terdapat peningkatan keterampilan berpikir kritis setelah diberikan perlakuan dengan model flipped classroom berbasis animaker pada materi usaha dan energi

Digital Art History for Beginners: The Spreadsheet

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: In this assignment, Nancy Ross describes her approach to teaching at the intersections of gender and class in twentieth-century art history through data visualization. Drawing on data from the Armory Show of 1913 exhibition catalog, Ross engages her students in finding data, developing data sets, identifying sets of questions intended to promote intersectional inquiry, and digging into the data to begin finding answers for these questions. She also discusses making graphs to visualize the data, then building on them to create more complicated ones. Ross’s approach speaks to the challenges she has experienced while teaching topics like gender and sexuality at a conservative university in Utah and to her success with teaching digital art history through intersectional analysis. Instructors can draw on assignments such as these to give students the opportunity to challenge their own biases, prejudices, and deeply held beliefs about the intersections of identity categories within cultural production, whether in art history or in other disciplines

Negara Hukum yang terkendala mentalitas Feodal

Telah termaktub dalam UUD 1945 pasal 1 ayat 3 bahwa Indonesia merupakan negara hukum. Doktrin hukum yang dikonusmsi kalangan akademisi dan sebagaimana telah diatur dalam UU No. 12 Tahun 2011 tentang perundang-undangan, berlaku suatu hirarki perundang-undangan yang disusun dengan maksud terciptanya kesinambungan hukum sebagai representasi kebutuhan manusia dan terhindar dari kontradiksi hukum yang berpotensi memicu ketidak pastian dan ketidak adilan. Dengan demikian, pancasila sebagai jantung dari konstitusi dan UUD 1945 sebagai jasad konstitusi merupakan akumulasi nilai dan cita-cita keadilan, sebagaimana telah tercantum dalam sila yang kelima “keadilan sosial bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia’’. Keadilan sosial ini merupakan muara dari segala hulu bidang bernegara. Artinya, keadilan sosial hanya akan tercipta jika bangsa Indonesia dapat terlebih dahulu mewujudkan ekonomi yang berkeadilan, politik yang berkeadilan dan yang tidka kalah penting tentunya hukum yang berkeadilan. Jika salah satu dari tiga bidang tersebut berlangsung dengan ‘‘abret-abretan’’ maka keadilan sosialpun akan mengalami cidera. Pembahasan hukum berarti menyoal sistem. Se-mapan apapun sebuah sistem, penggapaian cita-cita konstitusi tidak akan terlepas pula dari personalitas yang menjalankan sistem tersebut. Karena, setiap manusia memiliki ‘‘mentalitas’’, baik masyarakat pedesaan ataupun perkotaan. Dalam pergaulan yang melaju di bawah sistem tersebut terdapat komunikasi antar individu dan kelompok yang memiliki akar pemberangkatan mentalitas tersendiri. Pihak yang dominan biasanya muncul sebagai pemenang sehingga menjadikan sistem dan kewenangannya sebagai alat untuk merealisasikan wacananya. Nasib baik jika wacananya itu berkepentingan umum, tetapi wacana yang orientasinya kepentingan kelompok bisa gawat mengundang madarat. Terlebih masyarakat yang ‘‘mentalitasnya’’ masih terbelenggu corak feodal senantiasa memiliki rasa tanggung jawab dan inisiatif yang terbilang minim. Hal itu karena alam bawah sadarnya senantiasa menunggu instruksi dari figur yang berpengaruh ketimbang mengisi sistem dan melakukan upaya progresif sesuai kedudukannya. Ketika berhasil memasuki sistem-pun, alam bawah sadar feodal lebih cenderung bermain dalam aman ketimbang menawarkan gagasan, apalagi kalau yang ditawarkannya itu bertentangan dengan kehendak arus utama. Dalam kondisi yang demikian, membenahi sistem akan menjadi pilihan yang lebih masuk akal ketimbang mengubah watak sejumlah 270,6 juta orang dalam waktu yang sesingkat-singkatnya, sebab sistem ini akan mendeterminasi kesadaran

ENG/GBS/WGS 3298: Women Writing Worldwide Global Focus Mapping Project

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Through the assignment “Women Writing Worldwide,” Jenn Brandt’s students explore the affordances of digital cultural mapping for understanding the relationship between transnational feminist theory and global contemporary women’s fiction. Brandt contends that mapping engages students from diverse backgrounds and connects them to the issues that affect women’s lives around the globe. Students begin by using the Tour Builder storytelling tool in Google Earth to map their own lives and tell their own stories. After connecting them to the platform through their own experiences, Brandt asks students to map the course material. In the collaborative project, each student is assigned a country and asked to research its context for women’s experiences. This assignment is significant for intersectional digital pedagogy because it challenges students to think critically about the different types of oppression experienced by women around the world and to understand the global as an assemblage of the local. Instructors who wish to connect students’ understanding of their own intersecting identities to course content can draw on Brandt’s exemplary model for class mapping assignments