Still thinking about the "Varieties of DH" panel yesterday #mla18 #s347. Glaring absence for me was mention of the labor scenarios that resulted in the past 10 years because of DH. (+)— Alex Gil (@elotroalex) January 6, 2018
As I've said before, what makes DH different as "a project" than Cultural Analytics (ala @Ted_Underwood) for ex. is the collapse of certain divisions of labor, and the creation of a labor class where "numbers" work, design, etc (+)— Alex Gil (@elotroalex) January 6, 2018
gets assigned to library service work (with its gendered connotations). Same happened to bibliographical work, one could argue. This new class of workers is threatening and threatened because they work at the seams (+)— Alex Gil (@elotroalex) January 6, 2018
of both institutional divisions, but also the very mechanisms of knowledge production. Take @omeka work for example. That gives newbie students and fac a first glimpse at how archives are actually made (+)— Alex Gil (@elotroalex) January 6, 2018
but the software itself is still considered NOT the main library repository technology, the work not really part of "The Library." Like Omeka, cultural analytics itself is outsourced to the liminal spaces (+)— Alex Gil (@elotroalex) January 6, 2018
eventually the divisions of labor may reify again, but for now DH (or DS as it's called now. lol) remains both the promise and the threat of a new scholarly record and recording operation. Onward. (.)— Alex Gil (@elotroalex) January 6, 2018
I think you're right that this marks a difference from CA. Because we do more arguing than "building," we don't tend to rely on local support staff to the same extent. We do rely on grad/undergrad students to gather data, and also very heavily on @hathitrust.— Ted Underwood (@Ted_Underwood) January 6, 2018
The two models require very different kinds of institutional/grant support, and that does need to be discussed more candidly. One of the reasons I chafe under the "DH" label is that it tends to foster an assumption that everyone is building a project/archive/website.— Ted Underwood (@Ted_Underwood) January 6, 2018
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