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Tag: Global South

OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital
Archiving, Digitization, Indian Studies, New Post, South Asian Studies

OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital

This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Studies in Digital Humanities (DH) constantly illustrate that the discipline cannot be confined … Continue reading OH in DH: Listening to Memory in the Age of the Digital

Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts
Digitization, New Post, South Asian Studies, Teaching, Textual Analysis

Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts

In my previous post, I discussed how using Voyant reveals the infrastructural bias of DH tools when confronted with an … Continue reading Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts

Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, South Asian Studies, Teaching

Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic … Continue reading Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages
New Post, South Asian Studies

Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages

This is a guest post by Saniya Irfan. Digital Humanities in South Asia often begins with negotiating invisibility, the invisibility … Continue reading Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian Languages

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