Making Things and Drawing Boundaries

Jentery Sayers is associate professor of English at the University of Victoria.

"Sayers is to be commended for giving space to queer and feminist makers, who are often overlooked in favor of discussions on technological innovations. The essays on the interplay of craft and circuitry highlight how academic institutions need to look beyond monograph and journal publication as keystones to academic careers. This is required reading for those interested in digital humanities and in the intersection of maker culture and academics."-CHOICE

• ContentsIntroduction: “I Don’t Know All the Circuitry”Jentery SayersPart I. Making and the Humanities1. The Boundary Work of Making in Digital HumanitiesJulie Thompson Klein2. On the “Maker Turn” in the HumanitiesDavid Staley3. Vibrant Lives presents The Living Net4. A Literacy of Building: Making in the Digital HumanitiesBill Endres5. MashBOT6. Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.maP. P. SnehaPart II. Made by Whom? For Whom?7. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and PracticesJanelle Jenstad and Joseph Takeda8. Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital HumanitiesRoxanne Shirazi9. Looks Like We Made It, But Are We Sustaining Digital Scholarship?Chelsea A. M. Gardner, Gwynaeth McIntyre, Kaitlyn Solberg, and Lisa Tweten10. Full Stack DH: Building a Virtual Research Environment on a Raspberry PiJames Smithies11. Mic Jammer12. The Making of a Digital Humanities Neo-LudditeMarcel O’Gorman13. Made: Technology on Affluent Leisure Time14. Reifying the Maker as HumanistJohn Hunter, Katherine Faull, and Diane Jakacki15. All Technology Is Assistive: Six Design Rules on DisabilitySara HendrenPart III. Making as Inquiry16. Thinking as Handwork: Critical Making with Humanistic ConcernsGabby Resch, Dan Southwick, Isaac Record, and Matt Ratto17. Bibliocircuitry and the Design of the Alien Everyday, 2012–201318. Doing History by Reverse Engineering Electronic DevicesYana Boeva, Devon Elliott, Edward Jones-Imhotep, Shezan Muhammedi, and William J. Turkel19. Electronic Music Hardware and Open Design Methodologies for Postoptimal ObjectsEzra Teboul20. Glitch Console21. Creative Curating: The Digital Archive as ArgumentJoanne Bernardi and Nora Dimmock22. Reading Series Matter: Performing the SpokenWeb ProjectAlexander Flamenco, Lee Hannigan, and Aurelio Meza23. Loss Sets24. Dialogic Objects in the Age of 3D Printing: The Case of the Lincoln Life MaskSusan GarfinkelPart IV. Making Spaces and Interfaces25. Feminist Hackerspaces: Hacking Culture, Not Devices (the zine!)Amy Burek, Emily Alden Foster, Sarah Fox, and Daniela K. Rosner26. Fashioning Circuits, 2011–Present27. Making Queer Feminisms Matter: A Transdisciplinary Makerspace for the Rest of UsMelissa Rogers28. Movable Party29. Disrupting Dichotomies: Mobilizing Digital Humanities with the MakerBusKim Martin, Beth Compton, and Ryan Hunt30. Designs for Foraging: Fruit Are Heavy, 2015–201631. Experience Design for the Humanities: Activating Multiple InterpretationsStan Ruecker and Jennifer Roberts-Smith32. AIDS Quilt Touch: Virtual Quilt Browser33. Building Humanities Software That Matters: The Case of Ward One Mobile AppHeidi Rae Cooley and Duncan A. Buell34. Placeable: A Social Practice for Place-Based Learning and Co-design ParadigmsAaron D. Knochel and Amy Papaelias35. Making the Model: Scholarship and Rhetoric in 3D Historical ReconstructionsElaine Sullivan, Angel David Nieves, and Lisa M. SnyderPart V. Making, Justice, Ethics36. Beyond MakingDebbie Chachra37. Making It MatterJeremy Boggs, Jennifer Reed, and J. K. Purdom Lindblad38. Ethics in the MakingErin R. Anderson and Trisha N. CampbellAcknowledgmentsContributors