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A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of
feminist contributions to digital humanities In recent years, the
digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about
inclusivity and scope-but what change will these conversations
ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the
basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship
and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of
Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied
group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a
panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies,
new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism,
hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny. Taking
intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital
humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline,
identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords
of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and
situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms.
And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it's also an
important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the
fastest growing fields in the academy. Contributors: Babalola
Titilola Aiyegbusi, U of Lethbridge; Moya Bailey, Northeastern U;
Bridget Blodgett, U of Baltimore; Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven;
Jason Boyd, Ryerson U; Christina Boyles, Trinity College; Susan
Brown, U of Guelph; Lisa Brundage, CUNY; micha cardenas, U of
Washington Bothell; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U; Danielle Cole;
Beth Coleman, U of Waterloo; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Constance
Crompton, U of Ottawa; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A Nickoal
Eichmann-Kalwara, U of Colorado Boulder; Julia Flanders,
Northeastern U Library; Sandra Gabriele, Concordia U; Brian
Getnick; Karen Gregory, U of Edinburgh; Alison Hedley, Ryerson U;
Kathryn Holland, MacEwan U; James Howe, Rutgers U; Jeana Jorgensen,
Indiana U; Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dorothy Kim,
Vassar College; Kimberly Knight, U of Texas, Dallas; Lorraine
Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson U; Sharon M. Leon, Michigan State; Izetta
Autumn Mobley, U of Maryland; Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute
of Art, Design, and Technology; Veronica Paredes, U of Illinois;
Roopika Risam, Salem State; Bonnie Ruberg, U of California, Irvine;
Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), U of California, Santa Barbara;
Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson
U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester; Deb Verhoeven, U of Technology,
Sydney; Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon U.
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories
behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and
weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used
media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical
journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death
registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily
steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with
digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring
ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book,
Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western
quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and
technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and
realities. Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist
media history that maps connections not only between past and
present-day "quantum media" but between media tracking and
long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history
of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England
and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of
Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and
patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues,
counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin-one
that has always been used to render statistics of life and death
more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives
enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our
digital culture and inheritance.
A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of
feminist contributions to digital humanities In recent years, the
digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about
inclusivity and scope-but what change will these conversations
ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the
basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship
and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of
Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied
group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a
panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies,
new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism,
hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny. Taking
intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital
humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline,
identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords
of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and
situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms.
And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it's also an
important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the
fastest growing fields in the academy. Contributors: Babalola
Titilola Aiyegbusi, U of Lethbridge; Moya Bailey, Northeastern U;
Bridget Blodgett, U of Baltimore; Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven;
Jason Boyd, Ryerson U; Christina Boyles, Trinity College; Susan
Brown, U of Guelph; Lisa Brundage, CUNY; micha cardenas, U of
Washington Bothell; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U; Danielle Cole;
Beth Coleman, U of Waterloo; T. L. Cowan, U of Toronto; Constance
Crompton, U of Ottawa; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A Nickoal
Eichmann-Kalwara, U of Colorado Boulder; Julia Flanders,
Northeastern U Library; Sandra Gabriele, Concordia U; Brian
Getnick; Karen Gregory, U of Edinburgh; Alison Hedley, Ryerson U;
Kathryn Holland, MacEwan U; James Howe, Rutgers U; Jeana Jorgensen,
Indiana U; Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Dorothy Kim,
Vassar College; Kimberly Knight, U of Texas, Dallas; Lorraine
Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson U; Sharon M. Leon, Michigan State; Izetta
Autumn Mobley, U of Maryland; Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute
of Art, Design, and Technology; Veronica Paredes, U of Illinois;
Roopika Risam, Salem State; Bonnie Ruberg, U of California, Irvine;
Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel), U of California, Santa Barbara;
Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida; Michelle Schwartz, Ryerson
U; Emily Sherwood, U of Rochester; Deb Verhoeven, U of Technology,
Sydney; Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon U.
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