Social Media and the #dhpoco Lifecycle

Roopika RisamAssistant Professor of English

Salem State UniversityTwitter: @roopikarisam

#dhpoco

What is #dhpoco?

A community of scholars committed to global explorations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability within cultures of technology

A theoretical model that blends postcolonial critique with digital humanities

An emergent field of study invested in decolonizing the digital, foregrounding anti-colonial thought, and disrupting narratives of technological progress

Lessons from #dhpoco

Social media provides a mode of scholarly invention

Social media revives the art of playfulness in scholarly inquiry

Social media directed towards actionable outcomes yields scholarly transformation

Social Media as Invention

Social Media as Invention

The hashtag (#dhpoco) as site of inquiry

Twitter as forum of collaboration and experimentation

Twitter as a permanent and impermanent mode of scholarly communication

http://twitter.com/dhpoco

Social Media as Invention

Social Media as Invention

Tumblr as space of curation and creation

Curated links and posts related to #dhpoco yielded archive of #dhpoco origins

Tumblr tags reveal organic evolution of core concepts of #dhpoco

http://dhpoco.tumblr.com

Social Media as Play

Social Media as Play

Social media fosters invention and play for #dhpoco

Engagement with social media creates culture of mixing and remixing, thinking and rethinking

Social media reinforces importance of feedback and openness to widening community of #dhpoco

Social Media and Actionable Goals

Levering social media for scholarly communication requires attaching conversations on social media to actionable outcomes

Social Media and Actionable Goals

http://www.dhpoco.org

Social Media and Actionable Goals

http://dhpoco.org/summerschool

Join #dhpoco

Twitter: #dhpoco

Website: http://dhpoco.org

#dhpoco founders: Adeline Koh (@adelinekoh) and Roopika Risam (@roopikarisam)