(13/n) Day 4 of #NEHNetResearch As we swiftly move from methods like CDA to DDA, and Data Viz, I keep coming back to the area that always haunts me as a DH-er: the tangible loss/gains when we shift from the specificity of close textual analysis to the behemoth of big data...
(14/n) #NEHNetResearch Maybe it is analogous to questions on what remains untranslatable from offline worlds into online spaces. Can the virtual reveal the traumatic kernel of the "real"? Or if there is one?
(15/n) Last day of #NEHNetResearch Institute. Today I will share snippets from my reflective memo that participants composed on their experience during the institute. Feel free to engage/discuss/debate as replies to my tweets.
(16/n) #NEHNetResearch I will speak of my takeaways from this Institute by first acknowledging my (privileged) positionality as a scholar primarily trained in the Global North who has a tenured faculty position at a premier Indian research-based institution.
(17/n) #NEHNetResearch Without this socio-cultural capital it would be impossible for me to participate in this workshop, develop @dh_dharti with my colleagues, or organize #DHAI2018, and (generally) venture into Digital Humanities in India.
(18/n) #NEHNetResearch Digital Humanities is not a transcendental signifier. Much like the term “Global South” that is not a positional but a relational term,DH depends on the relational understanding of “digitality”/how web-cased technology proliferates in a specific location.
(19/n) #NEHNetResearch Analyzing Online phenomena/platforms requires significant (if not equal) engagement with offline worlds.
(20/n) #NEHNetResearch For example, the “digital” is a fluid signifier in my country which often gets conflated with the traditional Indian mentality of “jugaad”(thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-reso…).
(21/n) #NEHNetResearch The ability to self reflexively critique digital platforms and their affordances which is often sadly missing within the narrative of technological positivism in #emergingeconomies must be challenged through sustained access to #OpenSource source platforms. 
(22/n)#NEHNetResearch In India DH scholars/practitioners often do not self-identify with the moniker of Digital Humanities due to various reasons including lack of academic currency and institutional purchase for DH.
(23/n) #NEHNetResearch Also we must remember issues of access: (qz.com/india/945127/i…) Therefore definitions of DH must be #rhizomatic allowing for multiplicitous socio-technical formations. Not silos but collaborative deterritorialized spaces.
#NEHNetResearch Just concluded five days of intense and enlightening sessions. Kudos to @ucfcah and all the organizers. Also my passionate aim is to sleep for more than four hours in the night for the next few days (five nights of 1:30 am Zoom meetings will do that to you).
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