This is my first post on my DS106 Tumblr! Really looking forward to starting this digital story-telling course - follow me to read all about it! :D
This is my first post on my DS106 Tumblr! Really looking forward to starting this digital story-telling course - follow me to read all about it! :D
My. Best. Journal article title. Ever. Is finally ready to share. It’s also my favorite publication to date and I’ve loaded it in pre-print form to make it accessible now and posted the full cite at the end. Enjoy the likes of….
Size Matters to Lesbians Too: Queer Feminist Interventions into the Scale of Big Data
Abstract: How can we recognize those whose lives and data become attached to the far-from-groundbreaking framework of “small data”? Specifically, how can marginalized people who do not have the resources to produce, self-categorize, analyze, or store “big data” claim their place in the big data debates? I examine the place of lesbians and queer women in the big data debates through the Lesbian Herstory Archive’s not “big” enough lgbtq organizing history dataset—perhaps the largest dataset known to exist on lgbtq activist history—as one such alternative. A contribution to critical data studies, I take a …