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SUMMARY:Digital Landscapes: Understanding Archival Representation with Dig
 ital Methods - Professor Ruth Ahnert\, Queen Mary University of London
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CONTACT:Sarah Williams
DESCRIPTION:One of the arguments made for the digital humanities is its po
 tential for democratisation. The idea is that the more data we have\, and 
 the more people who have access to it\, the more likely we are to be able 
 to recover lost voices and rebalance scholarship in favour of the marginal
 ised. However\, both historic collection policies and more recent digitisa
 tion policies are necessarily shaped by multifarious interests and biases.
  Despite all the computational approaches that are being developed to stud
 y digital artefacts\, there has been relatively little attention given to 
 how we actually map what data we have\, and what we do not\, and the impac
 t this has on the kinds of questions we can meaningfully ask. This paper g
 ives examples from three of my projects to think about how computational m
 ethods can help us to survey the digital landscape so we can meaningfully 
 describe and respond to the biases with which we are working.  \n\nRuth Ah
 nert is Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities at Queen Mary U
 niversity of London\, and is currently leading two large AHRC-funded proje
 cts: Living with Machines\, and Networking Archives. She is author of The 
 Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (2013)\, and co-author 
 of Tudor Networks of Power\, and The Network Turn (both forthcoming).
LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre\,  Old Divinity School\,  St John’s Colleg
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