Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equa... more Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equal to universities. They offer an expedient route to the labour market. This suggests the need for colleges to focus on the development of their students ' leadership ability and to implement strategies for evaluating the success of leadership development efforts on college campuses. Student leadership development administered as a comprehensive, integrated and complimentary program is a proactive and strategic investment in the students ’ educational experience. The goal of this paper is to document some of the ways community colleges can further promote student leadership development and implement innovative approaches to increase student engagement.
The main objective behind the parliamentary practice of Question Period is to ensure that the gov... more The main objective behind the parliamentary practice of Question Period is to ensure that the government is held accountable to the people. Rather than being a political accountability tool and a showcase of public discourse, these deliberations are most often displays of vitriolic political rhetoric. I will be focusing my research on the ways in which incivil political discourse permeates the political mediascape with respect to one instance in Canadian politics - the acquisition of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. I believe that incivility in the political discourse of Question Period must be understood within the mechanics of the contemporary public sphere. By interrogating the complexities of how political discourse is being mediatized, produced and consumed within the prevailing ideological paradigms, I identify some of the contemporary social, cultural and political practices that produce incivility in parliamentary discourse.
By enabling the compilation of ‘big data’ from which knowledge of our patterns of thought, consum... more By enabling the compilation of ‘big data’ from which knowledge of our patterns of thought, consumption, and action can be drawn, social media platforms give state and non-state actors private access to our political imaginations and thus expose the fault lines within our collective consciousness. This paper investigates how emerging and disruptive populist technologies automate the manufacturing of consent on social media platforms and the impact these technologies are having on our civil discourse and democratic sovereignty. Populist technologies can be understood as the dialectical Other of techno-neoliberalism. Where techno-neoliberalism functions as an assemblage of the political power of the state, the market power of corporations and the scientific know-how of technocrats, we can see populist technologies suturing old hatreds with new technologies. While populist media technologies have been analyzed as software and engineering technologies, they have yet to be considered from...
This essay cluster features two essays by students and faculty collaborators describing the ways ... more This essay cluster features two essays by students and faculty collaborators describing the ways in which new forms of pedagogical practices are expanding and changing the field of Digital Humanities. Each essay takes a different approach that reveals the importance of pedagogy in bringing social justice to the digital humanities. One pedagogical approach lies in the design and development of a game that shows the experience of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming youth, and the other emphasizes the significance of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in offering a space to develop and teach a theory of inclusive and activist digital pedagogy. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that transforming DH into a politically engaged, socially just, and inclusive field is an ongoing process of teaching and learning in new and traditional places, forms, communities, organizations, and institutions. Kimberly O’Donnell responds to these papers as a graduate student and Digital Fellow at Simon Fraser University, offering her perspective on the challenges and necessity of creating these transformative pedagogical spaces. Resume Ce regroupement de dissertations se compose de deux dissertations ecrites par des etudiants et membres de faculte collaborateurs qui decrivent les facons dont de nouvelles types de pratiques pedagogiques etendent et changent le domaine des Humanites numeriques. Chaque dissertation adopte une approche differente qui demontre l’importance de la pedagogie pour l’integration de la justice sociale dans les humanites numeriques. Pour une approche pedagogique, il s’agit de la conception et du developpement d’un jeu qui montre l’experience de jeunes transgenres, de jeunes non-binaires et de jeunes dont le genre est non conforme, tandis que l’autre approche souligne l’importance du Digital Humanities Summer Institute(Institut d’ete des humanites numeriques) dans l’offre d’un endroit pour le developpement et pour l’enseignement d’une theorie pedagogique numerique inclusive et activiste. Ensemble, ces dissertations demontrent que la transformation des humanites numeriques en un domaine qui est politiquement engage et juste au plan social et inclusif est un processus permanent d’enseignement et d’apprentissage dans de nouveaux lieux et dans des lieux traditionnels, ainsi que dans des formes, communautes, organisations et institutions. Kimberly O’Donnell repond a ces dissertations en tant qu’etudiante de cycle superieur et en tant que Digital Fellow (chercheur) a l’Universite Simon Fraser, en donnant sa perspective sur les defis et sur la necessite de creer ces lieux pedagogiques transformateurs. Mots-cles: justice sociale; humanities numeriques (HN); pedagogie; numeriques; activisme numeriques; transgenres; technologie des jeux video
This is an abstract for a proposed forum that would have been hosted at DH2020 in Ottawa. It brin... more This is an abstract for a proposed forum that would have been hosted at DH2020 in Ottawa. It brings together Asian Americanist faculty, librarians, and students to unpack and frame research, pedagogy, and praxis in both digital humanities and Asian American studies: What does Asian/Am DH look like? What form might a community of practice in Asian/Am DH take? How best can we support Asian Americanists, whose field is historically grounded in community organizing and activism, in applying DH methods to their scholarship? As we address these questions, we will foreground how Asian/Am DH, like other ethnic studies informed DH praxis, centers concerns of race, social justice, transnationalism, and community. Unfortunately, because of COVID-19 and the added challenges it brought, the facilitators decided not to host a forum at this time, and added a statement about our decision and the politics of the current moment.
Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH) , 2020
The fabled origin story of humanities computing takes place in 1946 when Jesuit Priest Father Rob... more The fabled origin story of humanities computing takes place in 1946 when Jesuit Priest Father Roberto Busa and Thomas J. Watson Sr. the CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) meet, exchange pleasantries, and lay the groundwork for producing an index of the complete writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Winter 4). Busa and Watson’s meeting marks the genesis of the field since the theologian was able to acquire the material, technical, and financial support from the technocrat to engage in his scholarly endeavour, developing a linguistic corpus using computing technologies. This illustrious digitization project of sorting and indexing 11 million words of medieval Latin in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas produced a touchstone for humanities computing, the Index Thomisticus (Hockey 4). Busa, along with IBM technicians, developed machine-readable concordances and in the process, built a bibliography that was searchable through a telephonic coupler. Busa’s pioneering work, “Exploring the Concept of Presence According to Thomas Aquinas” (83), was accomplished by repurposing business machines developed primarily for record-keeping to generate automated concordances that have been widely celebrated as the genesis of the field of humanities computing, later christened digital humanities.
Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equa... more Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equal to universities. They offer an expedient route to the labour market. This suggests the need for colleges to focus on the development of their students' leadership ability and to implement strategies for evaluating the success of leadership development efforts on college campuses. Student leadership development administered as a comprehensive, integrated and complimentary program is a proactive and strategic investment in the students’ educational experience. The goal of this paper is to document some of the ways community colleges can further promote student leadership development and implement innovative approaches to increase student engagement.
Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equa... more Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equal to universities. They offer an expedient route to the labour market. This suggests the need for colleges to focus on the development of their students ' leadership ability and to implement strategies for evaluating the success of leadership development efforts on college campuses. Student leadership development administered as a comprehensive, integrated and complimentary program is a proactive and strategic investment in the students ’ educational experience. The goal of this paper is to document some of the ways community colleges can further promote student leadership development and implement innovative approaches to increase student engagement.
The main objective behind the parliamentary practice of Question Period is to ensure that the gov... more The main objective behind the parliamentary practice of Question Period is to ensure that the government is held accountable to the people. Rather than being a political accountability tool and a showcase of public discourse, these deliberations are most often displays of vitriolic political rhetoric. I will be focusing my research on the ways in which incivil political discourse permeates the political mediascape with respect to one instance in Canadian politics - the acquisition of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. I believe that incivility in the political discourse of Question Period must be understood within the mechanics of the contemporary public sphere. By interrogating the complexities of how political discourse is being mediatized, produced and consumed within the prevailing ideological paradigms, I identify some of the contemporary social, cultural and political practices that produce incivility in parliamentary discourse.
By enabling the compilation of ‘big data’ from which knowledge of our patterns of thought, consum... more By enabling the compilation of ‘big data’ from which knowledge of our patterns of thought, consumption, and action can be drawn, social media platforms give state and non-state actors private access to our political imaginations and thus expose the fault lines within our collective consciousness. This paper investigates how emerging and disruptive populist technologies automate the manufacturing of consent on social media platforms and the impact these technologies are having on our civil discourse and democratic sovereignty. Populist technologies can be understood as the dialectical Other of techno-neoliberalism. Where techno-neoliberalism functions as an assemblage of the political power of the state, the market power of corporations and the scientific know-how of technocrats, we can see populist technologies suturing old hatreds with new technologies. While populist media technologies have been analyzed as software and engineering technologies, they have yet to be considered from...
This essay cluster features two essays by students and faculty collaborators describing the ways ... more This essay cluster features two essays by students and faculty collaborators describing the ways in which new forms of pedagogical practices are expanding and changing the field of Digital Humanities. Each essay takes a different approach that reveals the importance of pedagogy in bringing social justice to the digital humanities. One pedagogical approach lies in the design and development of a game that shows the experience of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming youth, and the other emphasizes the significance of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in offering a space to develop and teach a theory of inclusive and activist digital pedagogy. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that transforming DH into a politically engaged, socially just, and inclusive field is an ongoing process of teaching and learning in new and traditional places, forms, communities, organizations, and institutions. Kimberly O’Donnell responds to these papers as a graduate student and Digital Fellow at Simon Fraser University, offering her perspective on the challenges and necessity of creating these transformative pedagogical spaces. Resume Ce regroupement de dissertations se compose de deux dissertations ecrites par des etudiants et membres de faculte collaborateurs qui decrivent les facons dont de nouvelles types de pratiques pedagogiques etendent et changent le domaine des Humanites numeriques. Chaque dissertation adopte une approche differente qui demontre l’importance de la pedagogie pour l’integration de la justice sociale dans les humanites numeriques. Pour une approche pedagogique, il s’agit de la conception et du developpement d’un jeu qui montre l’experience de jeunes transgenres, de jeunes non-binaires et de jeunes dont le genre est non conforme, tandis que l’autre approche souligne l’importance du Digital Humanities Summer Institute(Institut d’ete des humanites numeriques) dans l’offre d’un endroit pour le developpement et pour l’enseignement d’une theorie pedagogique numerique inclusive et activiste. Ensemble, ces dissertations demontrent que la transformation des humanites numeriques en un domaine qui est politiquement engage et juste au plan social et inclusif est un processus permanent d’enseignement et d’apprentissage dans de nouveaux lieux et dans des lieux traditionnels, ainsi que dans des formes, communautes, organisations et institutions. Kimberly O’Donnell repond a ces dissertations en tant qu’etudiante de cycle superieur et en tant que Digital Fellow (chercheur) a l’Universite Simon Fraser, en donnant sa perspective sur les defis et sur la necessite de creer ces lieux pedagogiques transformateurs. Mots-cles: justice sociale; humanities numeriques (HN); pedagogie; numeriques; activisme numeriques; transgenres; technologie des jeux video
This is an abstract for a proposed forum that would have been hosted at DH2020 in Ottawa. It brin... more This is an abstract for a proposed forum that would have been hosted at DH2020 in Ottawa. It brings together Asian Americanist faculty, librarians, and students to unpack and frame research, pedagogy, and praxis in both digital humanities and Asian American studies: What does Asian/Am DH look like? What form might a community of practice in Asian/Am DH take? How best can we support Asian Americanists, whose field is historically grounded in community organizing and activism, in applying DH methods to their scholarship? As we address these questions, we will foreground how Asian/Am DH, like other ethnic studies informed DH praxis, centers concerns of race, social justice, transnationalism, and community. Unfortunately, because of COVID-19 and the added challenges it brought, the facilitators decided not to host a forum at this time, and added a statement about our decision and the politics of the current moment.
Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH) , 2020
The fabled origin story of humanities computing takes place in 1946 when Jesuit Priest Father Rob... more The fabled origin story of humanities computing takes place in 1946 when Jesuit Priest Father Roberto Busa and Thomas J. Watson Sr. the CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) meet, exchange pleasantries, and lay the groundwork for producing an index of the complete writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Winter 4). Busa and Watson’s meeting marks the genesis of the field since the theologian was able to acquire the material, technical, and financial support from the technocrat to engage in his scholarly endeavour, developing a linguistic corpus using computing technologies. This illustrious digitization project of sorting and indexing 11 million words of medieval Latin in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas produced a touchstone for humanities computing, the Index Thomisticus (Hockey 4). Busa, along with IBM technicians, developed machine-readable concordances and in the process, built a bibliography that was searchable through a telephonic coupler. Busa’s pioneering work, “Exploring the Concept of Presence According to Thomas Aquinas” (83), was accomplished by repurposing business machines developed primarily for record-keeping to generate automated concordances that have been widely celebrated as the genesis of the field of humanities computing, later christened digital humanities.
Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equa... more Community colleges are a democratizing force in post-secondary education, different from but equal to universities. They offer an expedient route to the labour market. This suggests the need for colleges to focus on the development of their students' leadership ability and to implement strategies for evaluating the success of leadership development efforts on college campuses. Student leadership development administered as a comprehensive, integrated and complimentary program is a proactive and strategic investment in the students’ educational experience. The goal of this paper is to document some of the ways community colleges can further promote student leadership development and implement innovative approaches to increase student engagement.
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