What new configurations of Black Studies and the digital can we learn by building additional technical skills? What new worlds can we build with these new configurations? 

Workshop Schedule

Tuesday, February 4: Computational thinking
Tuesday, February 11: Technical writing 
Friday, February 14: Data analysis 
Tuesday, February 18: Web basics pt. 1
Friday, February 21: Web basics pt. 2 
Tuesday, February 25: Narrative/immersion/play
Friday, February 28: Narrative/immersion/play 

*All workshops will take place in the MITH Conference room from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST on Tuesdays and 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EST on Fridays. None of the workshops assume prior knowledge or require that participants attend them in a particular sequence. 

Technical Writing

Tuesday, February 11, 2020
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., EST
MITH conference room 
Experience requirement: none
Personal device requirement: tablet or laptop*
Sign up here: go.umd.edu/AADHumSignIn

Digital projects do not “speak for themselves.” For a variety of different audiences, we need to make visible and comprehensible the intellectual choices embedded in the digital objects we produce. For Black DH practitioners, this analysis should also identify how power, authority, and oppression is present in the work. We also need to become mindful consumers of this information about other scholars’ digital projects that we encounter. Participants in this workshop will begin to develop a shared vocabulary of technical terms for Black DH projects through close reading and short writing exercises. Aligning with the impulse of the Black radical tradition, this workshop seeks to identify the ways that technical writing can achieve goals similar to other forms of authorship and image-making.

*If you would like to borrow a device, indicate your need in the registration form