Hidden and devalued feminised labour in the digital humanities : on the Index Thomisticus project 1954-67
"Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus - a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities - and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities. Through oral history and archiv...
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| Sprache: | English |
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London New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2023
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Digital research in the arts and humanities
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| Schlagworte: | Digital humanities Humanities Information storage and retrieval systems Computers and women Women in computer science Sex discrimination against women Sex discrimination in employment Thomas Digital Humanities Geschlechterforschung |
| Umfang: | xi, 242 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Scaffolded by absence: on the devalued and hidden labour of the Index Thomisticus and computing in the Humanities more broadly
- On the histories of a history: the historical labour models of the Index Thomisticus (with contributions from Melissa Terras) The labour organisation of the Index Thomisticus against the longer trajectory of concordance-making, or the history of analogue, textual "big data" knowledge-management resources
- Hidden tasks, Hidden workers: keypunching the Index Thomisticus Resighting the "ghost work" of the Index Thomisticus
- Situating the Index Thomisticus: views from the inside Retro-engineering the technical design of the Index Thomisticus to the social and situated contexts of its making
- On the need for a "willingness to acknowledge mistakes" constructing the role of the keypunch operator Neither inevitable nor predetermined: constructing the role of the Index Thomsticus' keypunch operator
- On the making of the myth of the lone scholar: digital humanities as aetiology Replaying invisibility to strategic ends: digital humanities and the hero narrative
- Conclusion On the necessity of recovering the contributions of overlooked and lesser-known individuals to the history of computing in the Humanities.