Digital Humanities on the Ground
Post-Access Politics and the Second Wave of Digital Humanities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11677637 |
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| Authors | Nishant Shah (0000-0002-3451-2368, Artez University of the Arts, Zwolle, Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 155-173 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-9527 • E-ISSN: 2573-9476 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02759527.2019.1599551 |
| OpenAlex | W2949935298 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
At the heart of the Digital Humanities discourse in postcolonial information societies like India is a subject that is marked by connectivity and access. The discourse and practice put forward a very explicit imagination of a connected subject that is also naturalized in digital humanities. The intended beneficiary is posited as “to be connected,” entering a curative cycle of literacy and access intended to reform this subject. This paper proposes a subject of “disconnectivity,” which needs to be introduced into this debate. In the face of Internet blackouts and online bans, there is a subject who gets disconnected when it has potential for dissent or critique. Drawing from 1000 responses gathered in the wake of a political agitation in the city of Ahmedabad, I sketch the new paradoxes of the disconnected subject. It offers a critique of the tropes of access, presence, inclusion, and participation to show how digital humanities in South Asia needs a more critical investment in imagining its subjects as it takes on the politics of preservation, memory, and archiving
Art · Digital humanities · Digital Literacy · Dissent · Humanities · Inclusion (mineral · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · ICT in Developing Communities · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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