Archive for October, 2016
McPherson Response
First off, I had an extremely difficult time reading this article. As someone who doesn’t know how to code, the article was near impossible to comprehend. In addition, what I could understand was poorly defended. She argues that a computer is inherently racist but then doesn’t explain that peculiar claim well or even give her […]
McPherson and Invisible Problems
Before jumping in to respond to the prompt here, I’ll admit I’m less inclined to follow McPherson’s line of thought between race and computer programing that seems rather thinly stretched (if we read race as biological race, that is). McPherson herself, in her attempts to clearly mark out her argument, appears to admit the tenuousness […]
Mcpherson
McPherson’s essay is very interesting in the idea of differentiating the difference between our culture, coding and our race. Though she states these are all different, she also raises the idea that they are all connected. I think to bring light to these connections, we must first take a step back and acknowledge how we […]
McPherson Response
When I read the title for this essay, I was thinking there was no way to compare computing with race. How would you even start to comprehend how to compare the two. Race does not determine how smart a person is or how capable they are. Race, the color of a person’s skin, has nothing […]
Get you a programmer who can do both
When I started Mcpherson’s essay, I was skeptical of the argument that our systemic values could show up in how we code programs. Programs don’t convey human emotion, they don’t have bias, they don’t have cognition, so what could they possibly have to do with racial divisiveness? As I read on, however, I realized that […]
10/24 response
I wonder if Stephen Ramsey’s “If you’re not building you’re not a Digital Humanist” approach is an appropriate way to respond to this question. Certainly that type of neutral language is not racially coded, it discriminates against all or none equally based on your willingness to engage with the tools of computer programming and other […]
Response to McPherson
First off, I found this article extremely hard to follow and understand so bare with me as I answer this question. I had to read this text several times to understand how coding and race were related and after reading it more than once, I still can’t quite figure it out to be honest. But […]
McPherson Prompt Response
In order to bring together digital humanities and race, I would first suggest an evaluation of the structures of both areas. By bringing together “two modes of inquiry”, digital humanists can evaluate the good and the bad of both modes. When looking at two separate things and trying to bring them together, it helps to […]
Mcpherson’s Prompt
Tara Mcpherson argues in her essay that even though digital humanities and race are separate fields in academia, they are similar in nature and need to be brought closer together. She explains how the difficulties faced in “knitting together discussions of race with technological productions within the digital humanities” are an outcome of the post-World […]
Hayles Response
I think answering questions about what reading means before the internet and now has to be contextualized within what your objective is. Is this reading for pleasure, or reading as part of coursework for secondary education, undergrad, or grad school? Hayles identified a decreased efficacy in all of these categories. Is the goal then […]
