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DESCRIPTION:Listen to the recording\n\n \n\nThe Institute for Digital Resea
 rch in the Humanities: Digital Storytelling Colloquium\n\n \n\nBeyond the D
 ots: Data Stories of Migration\n\nGuest lecture by Roopika Risam\, Associat
 e Professor of Secondary and Higher Education and English at Salem State Un
 iversity\n\n \n\nDescription:\n\nWith the prodigious amount of data about c
 ontemporary migration currently available through sources like the United N
 ations High Commissioner for Refugees\, migration has been subject of numer
 ous data visualizations. Rhetorical and technical choices made in these vis
 ualizations have positioned refugees and forced migrants as instigators of 
 a “crisis.” In doing so\, these forms of data storytelling displace the geo
 -political\, colonial\, and neo-colonial causes of migration onto refugees 
 themselves\, positioning them as “problems.” In this talk Risam explores th
 e narrative dimensions of migrant data. What does it mean to tell migrant n
 arratives through data? What kinds of migrant narratives do data-driven app
 roaches facilitate and what narratives are obscured through data-driven app
 roaches? And what kinds of data storytelling approaches foster the agency o
 f migrants?\n\n \n\nBio:\n\nRoopika Risam is Chair of Secondary and Higher 
 Education and Associate Professor of Education and English at Salem State U
 niversity. Her research interests lie at the intersections of postcolonial 
 and African diaspora studies\, humanities knowledge infrastructures\, and d
 igital humanities. Risam is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial 
 Digital Humanities in Theory\, Praxis\, and Pedagogy (2018)\, and co-editor
  of Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (2019) and The Digital Black At
 lantic for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (2021).\n\n \n\nReg
 ister now!\n\n \n\nFor more information\, contact idrh@ku.edu. \n\n \n\nHos
 ted by the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities\, the Digital S
 torytelling Colloquium is a series of virtual events focused on the ethics\
 , politics\, and techniques of digital storytelling. Across all events\, th
 e vision of the colloquium is to build a community of inquiry and an incuba
 tor for ideas.
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Dots: Data Stories of Migration - Roopika Risam
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