A workshop/presentation on #DHThis (www.dhthis.org), a peer review experiment for the digital humanities by Adeline Koh, Martin Eve, Roopika Risam, Jesse Stommel and Alex Gil

1. #DHThis:
A DH Peer Review Experiment
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Adeline Koh @adelinekoh
Director of DH@Stockton,
Assistant Professor of Literature,
Richard Stockton College
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2. What is #DHThis?
At http:/
/dhthis.org
Experiment in new forms of publishing
Joint project by myself, Roopika Risam
(@roopikarisam), Martin Eve
(@martin_eve), Jesse Stommel (@jessifer),
Alex Gil (@elotroalex)
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3. What is #DHThis?
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4. What is #DHThis?
Community based
aggregator based on
the Pligg system
“Slashdot” for digital
humanities
Employs voting system
Anyone can sign up to
be a user/submit
things
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5. How does #DHThis Work?
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6. How does #DHThis Work?
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7. Published on #DHThis
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8. Why #DHThis?
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9. Why #DHThis?
#DHThis provides an alternative framework to the editorial
model, where a few editors get to determine what sort of
content gets published
Only complement: DHNow. But:
Also relies on editorial model to showcase content.
While DHNow pulls in from many feeds (anyone can add to),
these feeds are not easily findable from DHNow site.
Note: originally when DHNow was first conceived, they used
of a similar crowdsourcing platform but switched to editorial
because of lack of diversity
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10. Why #DHThis?
But--Digital Humanities growing as a field.
#DHThis helps create the forum for a
larger community to have a say.
#DHThis goal: To provide a platform to
share information give feedback for/
within a community.
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11. #DHThis Goals
Create a community-based system/
platform
Aims to both build community and provide
framework for community to interact
Also through “Groups” allows the
formation of different communities/
subcommunities
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12. #DHThis the Research Cycle
Serves to demonstrate what a community
finds engaging about different subjects
Way to get initial feedback/craft
reactions to a project/find better ways of
expressing it
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13. #DHThis the Research Cycle
Extends functions of blogs by signal boosting their content. Additionally
provides information abt who might be interested in your work through
upvotes/comments
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14. #DHThis Limitations
Popularity Contest? (Isn’t academia run on a
popularity contest?)
Up/Down Voting not adequate for academic
subjects? (But what is peer review but a thumbs up
or down?)
Downvoting does not help with community building
(What alternatives are there?/“Dislike” button on
Facebook)
Categories on header cannot be dynamically
determined by individual user (is this impt?)
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15. Next Steps
Next iterations of #DHThis:
Possible employment of Reddit platform,
to allow for user-generated subreddits?
Today’s #DHThis workshop!
Continue w current iteration for a year?
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16. The #DHThis Cat as symbol
http:/
/tinyurl.com/dhthiscat
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17. Join us!
Go to http:/
/dhthis.org
Create your own user account (under “Register”)
Submit content (under “Submit”) — give post a
snazzy title/description to get people to click!
Visit “New” and upvote/downvote + comment
Tweet under #dhthis!
More help under “About” page: http:/
/tinyurl.com/
dhthishelp
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