Designing for Difference.

The author expresses his opinion on the role of cultural theory within the digital humanities and its close analogs in order to argue for a theoretically explicit form of digital praxis in digital humanities. Topics discussed by the author include designing digital tools and applications that emerge...

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Publicado en:Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 178 - 190
Autor principal: MCPHERSON, TARA
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Duke University Press Spring2014
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Sumario:The author expresses his opinion on the role of cultural theory within the digital humanities and its close analogs in order to argue for a theoretically explicit form of digital praxis in digital humanities. Topics discussed by the author include designing digital tools and applications that emerge from cultural theory concerns, particularly from a feminist concern for difference and the development of computer operating systems that produced both new racial codes and forms of computation.