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Digital Scholarship Guides

Intro to Critical DH Workshop

Dataset questions to consider:

  • Who created the data set? Who is the data set about?
    • In what context/why was the data created or gathered?
  • What kinds of data are in the dataset?
  • What story could you tell with this dataset? Or, how could you use it?
  • How is the data formatted?
  • If you wanted to use this dataset, how would you get access to it?
  • If you had to find a similar dataset to this one, how would you search?

Collectives for Tech Justice

Questions to consider for tech justice collectives:

Review any content in the “about” or “people” pages of the sites to help answer some of the following questions:

  • Who is involved in the collective? Academics, activists, community members, students, some combination? Or is it unclear? 
  • What is the mission of this group?
  • What are some of the projects that this group has facilitated?
  • Does this group’s work resonate with you? Why or why not?

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