{"title":"In and Out of Digital Humanities","authors":"H. F. L'hoeste, J. Rodríguez","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory chapter provides a general context for this collection, starting with the anecdotal inception of the project. It provides a list of some of the important titles in the field of digital humanities that figure prominently as academic predecessors and ponders on the consequences and implications of the digital turn in the humanities for the study of Latinx and Latin American culture. In response to the cultural hegemony of Anglocentric circles in the digital humanities, it provides ample evidence of the development and existence of the field in Latin America. Finally, it provides a brief overview of the four sections into which the book is divided: digital nations, transnational networks, digital aesthetics and practices, and interviews with Latin American DH scholars.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134515866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coda","authors":"H. F. L'hoeste, J. Rodríguez","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides a balance for the volume, accounting for the implications of recent political shift in the US, much of which has been linked to social media. It emphasizes how the texts included in this collection also suggest the speed with which technology is playing a preeminent role in cultural, political, and social relations, be it north or south of the border. In the end, it seeks to strike a balance between the scholarly worlds in Portuguese and Spanish and academic spheres of the Anglo domain, clarifying the volume's intention not to pontificate, but rather to serve as a bridge between the Latin American digital humanities and the Anglo academe in the US and the UK, in a fashion as independent as possible to hegemonic proclivities.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117233970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modularity, Mimesis, and the Informatic Ideal","authors":"A. Chan","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores tactics around a growing digital age “informatic ideal” in contemporary state tactics. Such tactics, including Peru’s new labor law, increasingly exemplify an embrace of what digital studies scholars label as an information age elevation of modularity. Derived from programmer practices from the 1960s onward, the modular principle stressed the value of making individual input parts of large coded systems deliberately detachable, non-interdependent, and even invisible from other parts. Yet, if the modular principle meant to ensure that no other part of the system would register an interruption, the diverse intersectional and multi-mediated visibilization tactics—as well as their reverberations through varied web- and street-based spectacles—demonstrate Latin American citizens’ work to interrupt state and neoliberalized applications of the informatic ideal. Emphasizing intersectional participation, global inclusivity, and collaboration for social change instead, citizen tactics propose other informatic ideals that stress human interdependence and coalition over modularity’s stress on detachability, segregation, and non-interdependence. Their efforts echo feminist, postcolonial, and Latin American DH calls for dedicated efforts toward inclusive, intersectional participation within DH—not only to underscore the value of multi-disciplinary social collaboration, but to contend with modularization and the growing risks of neoliberalization within academic projects.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130351004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carnival, Hybridity, and Latin American Digital Humor","authors":"Paúl Alonso","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Enchufe.tv, an online comedy series that satirizes Ecuadorian idiosyncrasies and local urban culture, became the most popular online TV series in the country and a regional phenomenon in Latin America. The online show questions cultural stereotypes and social norms, while adapting and parodying transnational audiovisual formats and entertainment genres. Based on interviews and textual analysis, this chapter analyzes Enchufe.tv as a case study of Latin American digital humor, an increasingly relevant phenomenon to understand how cultural globalization and hybridity operate in today's transnational, multimedia entertainment. The case of Enchufe.tv not only reveals the challenges and opportunities of the digital medium for independent audiovisual projects, but also how the limits of critical humor are negotiated in cultural, political, and commercial terms.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"666 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117114182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuban Digital Pedagogies and the Question of the Interface in Yaima Pardo’s Offline","authors":"J. C. Rodríguez","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses Yaima Pardo’s Offline to explore how the cross-fertilization of documentary and digital conventions can be used to reconstruct web navigation as an immersive experience that offers itself as a pedagogical intervention and critical interrogation of internet infrastructures and practices in Cuba. In Offline, the immersive dimension of nonfictional representation (live action footage, interviews, and database video images), and the operational dimension of digital interfaces (reading emails, clicking links, navigating multiple windows, downloading data, but also witnessing machine errors produced by internet access restrictions or limitations in data transmission capacity) contaminate each other and produce a tense convergence of cinematic conventions and data processes. It is through this tense convergence of national and global database images, functional and dysfunctional interfaces, and the nonfictional remixing of pro-filmic spaces and cyberspaces that Offline comes to represent some polemics and disputes, as well as some contradictory and ambivalent aspects that form part of the internet debate in Cuba. Offline evokes the idea that documentaries can play an important role as cinematic interfaces for the development of digital humanities practices in countries where internet connection and access to digital interfaces cannot be taken for granted.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114836133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On DH in Argentina","authors":"H. F. L'hoeste, J. Rodríguez","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, Gimena del Río Riande, the Argentine researcher based at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), talks about the state of the digital humanities in Argentina and the potential implications and promise of digital research in Latin American academia. She explains the specific challenges in the region and how technologies are playing a defining role in the reshaping of Latin American humanities at the dawn of the 21st century. As expected, the way in which the humanidades digitales developed in Spanish-speaking countries differs significantly from that of the Anglophone digital humanities. These differences can be found not only in the language that communicates research—all the different variants of Spanish—but also in the topics, methods, and tools, due to the diverse academic, cultural, and economic contexts. To illustrate this, Gimena del Río tells us how she started working in 2013 on the creation of a digital humanities community in Argentina, the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD), and the digital humanities projects she is currently coordinating.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133516280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On DH in Brazil","authors":"H. F. L'hoeste, J. Rodríguez","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This interview, held in the first half of 2018, focuses on the digital humanities in Brazil. It discusses various aspects of the subject. It signals an increasing interest in the digital humanities in Brazil, visible in several initiatives, and materialized in projects and works both theoretical and applied. The growing creation of laboratories, study centers, or research groups stimulates discussion and the strengthening of the general humanities. Lacking the support of specific public policies, the initiatives listed are the fruit of commitment by researchers, since branches of government have not yet identified an important research area for the development of new knowledge in the humanities. The interview lists names of important Brazilian activists from the area of digital humanities. It also points out the difficulties in the development of the digital humanities, such as the lack of knowledge of the area by researchers and the tendency to reduce the budgets of institutions and universities due to the current economic crisis. Publications, seminars, and other activities that enable the wide exchange of experiences developed at the national and international levels are considered fundamental in the strengthening of the field. Finally, it highlights the relevance of the promotion of events for dissemination in the area, like the 1st International Congress on Digital Humanities, which involved universities, research centers, and cultural institutions in its organization.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123430319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Blogger, No Cry","authors":"Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter is a concise creative essay by one of the protagonists of Cuban alternative blogging movement and emerging civil society. Younger generations in Cuba want to have their voices heard worldwide, despite the official censorship of the Castro government and the repression of the State Security. Freedom of expression as well as fundamental freedoms are still under attack in Cuba today, the once-called Island of Utopia by many international intellectuals, academics, and all sorts of political pilgrims mainly from the Left. Therefore, it is very important to know the insights of this peaceful struggle of the Cuban people for a more inclusive and democratic country, beyond the historic monopoly of the Communist Party. It is also important to understand why solidarity from abroad is necessary for these 21st-century freedom fighters not to succumb in isolation under the physical oppression but also under the misleading narrative of the Cuban Revolution seen as resistance to U.S. Imperialism and global capitalism. This creative essay playfully displays an initial map useful both for Cuban studies experts as well as for the common tourist.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117082862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afrolatin@ Digital Humanities or Rethinking Inclusion in the Digital Humanities","authors":"E. Arriaga","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Through the study of digital projects developed by Afrolatin@ and Afro-Latin American communities and agents in the Americas, this chapter argues for a rethinking of inclusion as a notion widely discussed in fields such as the digital humanities. Departing from myths of digital universalism and digital neutrality, the text discusses how technologies—in particular, digital technologies—are repurposed by these communities to pursue diverse political, cultural, and symbolic objectives in assorted geographic and cultural contexts. In that sense, the chapter proposes the reconsideration of the digital humanities and digital studies as expansive fields of practice, in which there is space for what the author calls Afrolatin@ digital humanities. Studied projects reveal that such expansion of the digital humanities is less concerned with textual analysis and digitization of canonical material, and more centered around the combination of computer applications and analog practices to challenge colonial and neo-colonial orders embedded in global neoliberal designs. Likewise, those projects propose diverse conceptions of humanity that challenge the universal conception of human centered around western male conceptions.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129057650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(In)Visible Cuba(s)","authors":"Anastasia Valecce","doi":"10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The access to the internet in Cuba marks the beginning of a change and it brings new ways to debate on the socialist ideology reformulating the strategies to operate, dialogue, and accept any form of criticism. This chapter explores the role of the internet in Cuba from the perspective of the conflict in the virtual space and how it reshapes the Cuban revolutionary ideal. Thus, this section investigates the ways in which cyber mambises interact in order to control the digital zone; it examines the social and political implications of these cyber activities, and the conflicts generated from them. Also, this chapter focuses on the methods of control of the digital space and on how control is enacted through a hyper-visible presence in the web. Consequently, it examines how the virtual interactions between the controller and the controlled change the dynamics of control, adding new layers to the dialogue—or lack of dialogue—and conflict between officials and dissidents on the island.","PeriodicalId":116543,"journal":{"name":"Digital Humanities in Latin America","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124908966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}