Challenging new hegemonies: Developing digital tools for the South
Ghosh, Arjun
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Western epistemology marginalized non-European ideas while subjecting acquired knowledge to restrictive intellectual property regimes. Digital tools, like AI and ML, may be culture-specific, perpetuating Anglo-American interpretive norms. To ensure equitable access, technologies fostering cross-cultural conversations in Southern languages must be developed.
Which/Whose Digital Humanities? Notes from an Indian Public Pedagogical Program and Participants’ Responses
Guin, Tonisha
IIT Jodhpur, India
This paper examines the responses received during a virtual faculty development program that introduced Digital Humanities to its participants. The responses are significant pointers towards normative attitudes about digital and allied technoscientific disciplines, and–crucially for this paper– how they may be located within existing matrices of access, equity and disenfranchisement.
Why do they say DH is the best of both worlds? Navigating DH futures at engineering schools in postcolonial Asia
Yokoyama, Setsuko (1); Ghosh, Sharanya (2); Dahiya, Vasundhra (2); Dahiya, Lavanya (3); Chadha, Aanya (3); Banerjee, Romi (2)
1: Singapore University of Technology and Design; 2: Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur; 3: Independent
HTML XMLThe paper probes into what factors inform DH in engineering schools in postcolonial India and Singapore. Specifically, the paper examines how DH is characterized as a bridge between STEM and Liberal Arts, and postulates a common postcoloniality that’s led to the piecemeal adoption of DH in the said intellectual spaces.