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        Date: 2019-11-05 12:29:39+00:00
        From: Roopika Risam 
        Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities Quarterly Minimal Computing Special Issue

Dear Colleagues,

Alex Gil and I are co-editing a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on
Minimal Computing. Abstracts are due by January 30, 2020.

We're committed to expanding the conversation and actively encourage submission
from women, gender minorities, and practitioners around the world. We can accept
submissions in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

CFP: Minimal Computing Special Issue, Digital Humanities Quarterly
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/submissions/cfps.html

Guest editors:

Alex Gil, Columbia University Libraries
Roopika Risam, Salem State University

Abstracts due: January 30, 2020

Special Issue Description

This special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will bring together essays
and case studies on the promises and limitations of minimal computing from
historical, practical, and theoretical perspectives, as well as within the
context of specific research projects and their environments.

Minimal computing can be defined as any form of digital or computational praxis
done under some set of significant constraints of hardware, software, education,
network capacity, power, agency or other factors. Within the context of digital
humanities scholarship, minimal computing refers to such computing practices
used for teaching, research, and the construction and maintenance of a
hybrid (digital and analog) scholarly and cultural record.

Broadly construed, our scope is not limited to digital scholarship within the
confines of universities and thus includes work undertaken in galleries,
archives (institution and community-based), and libraries, as well as in
collaboration with communities.

In this issue, we strive for equity in gender and particularly encourage
submission by women and gender minorities. We further actively seek to include
at least one contribution from each of the following geographical areas: Latin
America, Africa, and Asia. We are able to accept submissions in English, French,
Portuguese, and Spanish.

Suggested Topics

Topics can include but are not limited to:

* Minimal hardware: aged machines, USBs, arduinos, simple circuits, etc.
* Minimal computation: simple scripts, bash, tranductions, etc.
* Static site generation
* Teaching fundamentals of computing tied to subjects in the humanities and the
humanistic social sciences
* Forms of making-do in relation to computation: jugaad, hacktivism, DIY
* Technological disobedience, i.e. using technologies in a way they were not
intended
* Marginal forms of knowledge and memory production involving computation
* A critique of minimal or minimalist approaches undertaken by choice, rather
than by necessity
* Genealogies of minimalist forms of computation
* Case studies on projects that address a multiplicity of costs (environment,
bandwidth, access, maintenance, etc.) and needs (publishing, remembrance,
resistance, etc.) with an overall reduction in complexity
* Implications of minimal computing practices for universities, libraries and
archives.

Submission Formats

The special issue will consist of two sections: The first section will be
reserved for scholarly arguments grounded in history or well argued theoretical
work on minimal computing, and the second section will include case studies in
the form of specific projects or deep descriptions of environments that pose
particular challenges or constraints for digital scholarship and strategic
responses to them that incorporate minimal computing practices.

In the first section, we welcome historical perspectives on minimal computing
that place contemporary practices in dialogue with multiple documented
genealogies; theoretical or strategic pieces that examine socio-technical
implications of these practices at scale today; and critical or skeptical voices
who are familiar with the implications of minimal computing and the informal
discussions and practices that have taken place in the recent past.

For the second section we welcome deep descriptions of projects and environments
that include, extend, and complicate minimal computing practices, prompting
meditations on difference and imperfect similarity between multiple projects or
environments. These case studies should help mainstream audiences understand the
granular thinking behind design decisions that respond to specific constraints
and challenges.

Submission Details

We ask that you send your abstracts (max. 500 words) to rrisam@salemstate.edu
and agil@columbia.edu by January 30, 2020 for a first round of review. Early
inquiries are encouraged. We will notify all submitters of the status of their
submission in late February. If you are invited to submit a full-length article
(~4,000-8,000 words) or a case study (~2,500 words), we ask that they be
submitted by June 30, 2020.



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