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This module will introduce students to similarities and variations in digital humanities work around the world, and the local factors that led to what variation exists. Those global factors may include language and cultural influences, colonial and post-colonial impacts on the nature of archives in the region (be that oral, written, or material cultures), access (technological and economical) to digitisation and scholarly infrastructure, as well as regional political and philosophical agendas that sculpt the way scholars must work.

Topics include case studies that may be drawn from different regional contexts around the globe, from Latin America, to North America, to Europe, to Africa and beyond. Students will consider a range of digital resource formats which may include but are not limited to, uneven or varied adoption of digital tools, archives, digital editions, open source, borndigital materials, and 3D visualisations. The language of instruction is English but students are welcome to read widely in any other languages for which they have proficiency.

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate an ability to read critically across cultural boundaries
• Be able to identify key debates that reflect the dominant digital humanities issues in a range of countries
• Demonstrate an ability to produce comparative critiques of global issues
• Be able to write critically and sensitively about themes related to the module, supported by a range of evidence (both primary and secondary)
• Be able to design digital solutions that address the complexity and multiplicity of different source materials, languages, and cultures.

Compulsory for: MA and MSc in Digital Humanities students

Optional for: students on other programmes offered by the Department of Information Studies