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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)