Title of Poster or Presentation
Purple Pencil Project: A Case Study of Digital Humanities in Practice
Submission Type
Oral/Paper Presentation
Degree Type
Masters
Discipline
Humanities
Department
Digital Humanities
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract or Description
The Digital Humanities knowledge body produced in the last decade rightfully critiques the manner in which technology dictates our social life, questions the power structures of the digital world, raises concerns about the business logics that govern our most-used software.
Digital Humanities in Practice is presented here as an approach to actively addressing some of these problems, by looking at the origin, mission and setup of Purple Pencil Project, an Indian literary venture, that focuses on bringing regional Indian fiction under the same spotlight that Indian English fiction has dominated over last few decades internally, and Anglo-American fiction globally.
It borrows from contemporary understanding of user experience, digital media consumption, social entrepreneurship, content consumption practices, information flow on the web, and the discourses of language and linguistic diversity in India, to attempt to address and resolve key concerns of the literary system in India – a divided readership, a lack of digital or physical access to its books, few and poorly maintained libraries, an imbalanced push for Hindi and English, the idea of Indian literary canon as represented on a global scale – and how digital humanities work can intervene in these questions.
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Purple Pencil Project: A Case Study of Digital Humanities in Practice
The Digital Humanities knowledge body produced in the last decade rightfully critiques the manner in which technology dictates our social life, questions the power structures of the digital world, raises concerns about the business logics that govern our most-used software.
Digital Humanities in Practice is presented here as an approach to actively addressing some of these problems, by looking at the origin, mission and setup of Purple Pencil Project, an Indian literary venture, that focuses on bringing regional Indian fiction under the same spotlight that Indian English fiction has dominated over last few decades internally, and Anglo-American fiction globally.
It borrows from contemporary understanding of user experience, digital media consumption, social entrepreneurship, content consumption practices, information flow on the web, and the discourses of language and linguistic diversity in India, to attempt to address and resolve key concerns of the literary system in India – a divided readership, a lack of digital or physical access to its books, few and poorly maintained libraries, an imbalanced push for Hindi and English, the idea of Indian literary canon as represented on a global scale – and how digital humanities work can intervene in these questions.
