Overview of Digital Humanities Conferences
Assignment by alice_corona for the course Introduction to Digital and Public Humanites 2020 at Ca'Foscari University of Venice • Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities.DH is driven by projects. tech. people.
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Our public face sets the course of DH, via whom it entices to engage with us, how it informs policy agendas and funding allocations, and who gets inspired to be the next generation of digital humanities.”
Website of the Index of digital humanities conferences. Weingart, S.B., Eichmann-Kalwara, N., Lincoln, M., et al. "DH Conferences Data Extract" in The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences. Carnegie Mellon University, 2020. Data last updated 2020-10-19. https://dh-abstracts.library.cmu.edu. https://doi.org/10.34666/k1de-j
Other blog posts and papers used for this presentation and shown above:- dh quantified series, a review of quantitative analyses of the digital humanities by Scott B. Weingart on his blog the scottbot irregular
- Weingart, S. B., & Eichmann-Kalwara, N. (2017). What’s Under the Big Tent?: A Study of ADHO Conference Abstracts. Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique, 7(1), 6.
- Frank Fischer's series on tools mentioned in abstracts of Digital Humanities conferences from his blog weltliteratur.net - A Black Market for the Digital Humanities
- EICHMANN-KALWARA, NICKOAL & JORGENSEN, JEANA & WEINGART, SCOTT. (2019). Representation at Digital Humanities Conferences (2000–2015): Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities
What's in the data?
At ADHO conferences 2006 - 2020
At ADHO conferences 2015 - 2020
At ADHO conferences 2006 - 2020
Healthy community?
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GROWING
475 works have been presented at ADHO 2020, which is about 3 times those of ADHO 2006. - OPEN
About half of the authors of ADHO 2020 are new to the conference.
(specifically: they had never presented a work in the period 2006 - 2019). - COLLABORATIVE
About two-thirds of the works presented at ADHO feature a collaboration of two or more authors.
But what about ?
Locale
2006 - 2020: authors affiliated to 1,351 different institutions in 80 countries.
Locale
Locale
Gender
2000 - 2015: the gender gap @ ADHO, between representation, partecipation and bias.
Gender: representation, participation and bias.
Gender: representation, participation and bias.
Gender: representation, participation and bias.
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A woman has just as much chance of getting a paper through peer review as a man if they both submit a presentation on the same topic (e.g., both women and men have a 72 percent chance of passing peer review if they write about network analysis, or 65% of passing peer review if they write about knowledge representation), but topics that are heveliy gendered toward women are less likely to be accepted. Cultural studies has a 57 percent acceptance rate, gender studies 60 percent, pedagogy 51 percent. Male-skewed topics have higher accenpance rates, like text analysis (83 percent), programming (80 percent), or Asian studies (79 percent).”
Initiatives
bit.ly/slides_dh20
Link to this interactive presentation so that you can view it at yuor own pace and interact with the visualizations.
(refresh slide if charts don't appear immediately).
http://bit.ly/python_dh20
Link to the Python notebook used to work with the DH Conference Index full dataset in preparation for this presentation.
http://bit.ly/github_dh20
Link to the Github repo with all the code, input .CSV files and the output .CSV files used for the visualizations contained in this presentation.
http://bit.ly/references_dh20
Full reference list of articles, paper and projects upon which this presentation is built.