CUNY Academic Commons | Jen Hoyer | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jenhoyer/activity/ Activity feed for Jen Hoyer. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 89c8ca184dd1cdbbfdb72078c7b8ba66 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1241 Wed, 10 May 2023 19:01:56 -0400 Black Power Naps Reflections by Jen I sat down to write out some of the questions I was thinking about while in the exhibition yesterday: questions about exhibition space, about rest, about museums. I am still mulling a lot of these over!

]]> 17b1817140ff4ff091b246519ae2cf9b Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Care (May 2), on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/care-may-2/#comment-184 Tue, 02 May 2023 20:10:51 -0400 Adrianna, I’ve been thinking a lot as well about collective care vs individual care; I’ve been specifically thinking about: how do we bring individuals who are disconnected / feeling a lack of care, into a space […]

]]> e59146f74c7d226a0413cb57e7d5cf87 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1221 Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:42:32 -0400 Week 12by Jen Thanks so much for including a reading from Knowledge Justice! This is such a good and important book for my own field of work; […]

]]> f96fe6b763cea973ba9aa3423c6d8563 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Distant Reading for Care Key Words., on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/distant-reading-for-care-key-words/#comment-169 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:05:06 -0400 Tuka, this is so so helpful! And such a great way to reflect on these texts and their different iterations; wow. Thanks for this! 😀 I was really struck by seeing “better” stand out in the most recent one, and […]

]]> cffdef27f7b9915fc5e9e7ce95cdea05 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Care Day 3, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/care-day-3/#comment-163 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:25:02 -0400 Adrianna, I really like your question about what tools CUNY has to counteract the issues presented by Risam; it’s given me a lot of pause to think this morning. In my experience at CUNY so far, I’ve seen a […]

]]> 8e7b982ba8ee97695e198dece365c33f Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1208 Sun, 23 Apr 2023 13:26:35 -0400 Week 11This week’s had me thinking a lot about the nature of scrappy and DIY work, and when it becomes too much. I really appreciated C […]

]]> 23b9576b12aad540f28391c8c6809efd Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Care, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/care/#comment-153 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:09:52 -0400 Nelson, your comment that “care should be accessible to everyone and not have the individual force themselves and struggle to find care” really stood out to me. I think a lot about this as someone who has access […]

]]> 31a391ff03bc27c8a147ff34dc731619 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Week #10: Care-full Teaching, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-10-care-full-teaching/#comment-152 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:05:01 -0400 Anthony, I really appreciate your comment about motivation to do more study yourself out of a desire to think more about how to see/find space for care in education. And I also am grateful that you point out the […]

]]> e889b89942ce12aafc8447d0ac34be79 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1177 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:22:44 -0400 Week 10 — by Jen For this week’s reflection, I made a mind map of different ideas of “care” that I saw in My Pandemic and in Reclaiming our […]

]]> 2745321753ced9be0d8e65ac77cc0233 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Care, Day 1, Preliminary Reflection, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/care-day-1-preliminary-reflection/#comment-136 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:37:42 -0400 Adrianna, I really like the discussion you went into about power. In reflecting on this, I’m thinking about how those with greater power should also have greater responsibility for care. How do we typically […]

]]> 6e83bcc21fa3f421880282aefe04274c Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Care + Empathy, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/care-empathy/#comment-135 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:34:09 -0400 Brie, your comment that empathy is code for a lot of other things really resonated with me. I’m curious whether you think that increased conversations about empathy in the last few years (I’ve seen that in a lot […]

]]> c89fca9ab25771af5fecc1aa6ad833b0 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1153 Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:02:21 -0400 Week 9— by Jen I really appreciated Connection Established because of the way it clearly illustrates the complexity of caring for others […]

]]> 0a194f2386312281ff6294cc3605c8b0 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1132 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:53:06 -0400 — Jen

Thanks so much for this reading, Adrianna and Brie and Nelson! I really enjoyed spending time with it.

Bailey’s note that “graduate students are expected to enter the job market with at least one […]

]]> fc3e43259555968529f3e13af3d97c29 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1117 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:54:39 -0400 Hi all! I thought some folks here might be interested in this call for submissions: https://thickpress.medium.com/an-encylopedia-of-radical-helping-call-for-writing-and-or-images-3c4578833390

Note that the […]

]]> 312746d4106065be0331458ff5f679d3 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Project: TLDR, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/project-tldr/#comment-97 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:32:19 -0400 Tuka, this looks really amazing!

One question that you could maybe ask yourself–especially in relation to thinking about including the Commune–is: what ongoing maintenance would you want to put in, to make […]

]]> 35b1c319bdb662bc5b66d1a134d4806e Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Final Project: On Abolitionist Pedagogy and Praxis or..., on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/final-project-on-abolitionist-pedagogy-and-praxis-or/#comment-96 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:25:05 -0400 D, your idea of working on resources for integrating AI into existing curriculum reminded me of a conversation I had with a school librarian friend last week; she wanted to make some lesson plans specific to […]

]]> 05f99209c1dccaac3a72407ca4913ea2 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1093 Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:02:47 -0400 by Jen

My final project asks: is the work of indexing and coding a text for analysis a reductive act, or can it be an act of care?

I bring to this work a perspective of the type of indexing that is […]

]]> 0f00acf71aeaac9fc3fee8dacbfb993c Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Publishers' Platforms, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/publishers-platforms/#comment-76 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:08:29 -0400 It’s really interesting for me to think about these textbook-associated platforms primarily from the standpoint of surveillance; it makes sense that they’re doing that, but I’ve always thought about these “added […]

]]> 8926aa81ed556249ff40251dc42c35f6 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1056 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:22:59 -0500 by Jen, in conversation with Magic Write

After working through this week’s readings I asked Magic Write, the AI inside Canva, to “discuss the hopes and harms of AI.” I’ve been curious about the existence of an […]

]]> 84fc9c619d5aa4e848100ccf96dffcab Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Final project idea and peer consultation, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/final-project-idea-and-peer-consultation/#comment-75 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:18:07 -0500 Hey Brie! I think that you should create a Wikipedia article about Dr. Virginia Brooks; I can’t find one. I would be happy to help you figure out the next steps for that 🙂

]]> a8e1a1a04d152e5b0cda39509ba8d668 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Week 5: Precarity, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-5-precarity/#comment-61 Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:33:39 -0500 Brie, thanks for meditating over the word “precarity”; it made me stop to think about the way we use this word. In thinking about the value chain of tech (and also, my larger thought that the precarity of DH needs […]

]]> c7bf66c74ad8276478108005a0a096bc Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Week 5, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-5/#comment-59 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:31:36 -0500 Adriana, I’m glad you brought up comparing DH to other disciplines because I think it’s really worth looking at the similarities we see across range of our disciplines. I think it’s so easy to get lost in our […]

]]> df85bab340f6c950d6f3de7167c84f5e Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1029 Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:45:46 -0500 by Jen

The manifesto from Precarity Lab and the article by Boyles et al provided an interesting contrast in looking at the human precarity of DH. Boyles et al focus on the academy, looking at the challenges […]

]]> 0348af7c2c5b96863205308637632fb7 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Week 4, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-4-2/#comment-39 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:50:42 -0500 Thank you so much for sharing that article, Adrianna! It makes me think about the ways we unconsciously relate to technology as human even if we know it’s not. (I’ve often felt weird when friends choose a specific […]

]]> c2f426042a9fa25dc1dd05a1c0b97a8e Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Week 4 - Questions about Reclaiming Power, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-4/#comment-38 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:43:33 -0500 I’m so glad you asked questions about specific skills conveying power (or not) — that was definitely something I had in mind when looking at some of the readings, and as I work with colleagues on filling in the […]

]]> 266ebe477fdfc445cdfe0822a69fdbec Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Rethinking, redesigning, re..., on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/rethinking-redesigning-re/#comment-37 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:39:35 -0500 Tuka, I would love to talk more about how we define meaningful interconnectedness with technology — it’s definitely a thought-provoking idea that comes up in these readings! What are the terms we use for […]

]]> a0d1bffea07619f2a2eece40d65b67b6 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Week 4 - Power Maintaining/Sharing in the Institution, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-4-power-maintaining-sharing-in-the-institution/#comment-36 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:16:20 -0500 Brie, I’m so glad you brought up the theme of surveillance! That is such a mechanism of power; I’d love to talk more in class tomorrow about the infrastructures that enable / perpetuate surveillance, and the […]

]]> 7d9cfaf31c4b237aed592aeeb0b36223 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, What's missing? (Week 3), on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/whats-missing/#comment-27 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:12:15 -0500 Diana, your post made me think more about the data that escapes public scrutiny because it falls into loopholes that keep it outside of public reporting. There was an article in The City this morning based on data […]

]]> 08909848a1b1144794bb381672a4b063 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Week 3, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-3/#comment-18 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:20:05 -0500 Adrianna, you sent me down a rabbit hole of CUNY funding history that I’ve always taken for granted but didn’t know all the details on. The PSC CUNY website spells out the breakdown between state and city funding […]

]]> b19f5fb5b6ace1dcf06d2752a774dae4 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=956 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 14:44:30 -0500 by Jen Hoyer

Looking over the CUNY budget request and financial statements was a good reminder of the incongruities between desire and reality in financial bureaucracy. The CUNY budget request reads like a […]

]]> 6d02df297f088fedfebe7e6e95cd9221 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Trust and Privacy, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/trust-and-privacy/#comment-3 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:12:19 -0500 Tuka, your comment about DH outside the US — and specifically in relation to the University of Victoria — made me think about a project at UVic that Bridget Whearty wrote about in her recent book Digital […]

]]> a6055db132b1171bb6b3e4e4f0f8dc11 Jen Hoyer (she/her) commented on the post, Institutional Power and the syllabus, on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/920-2/#comment-2 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:52:00 -0500 I think you make a really great point about the complex dynamics between individuals and institutions. I also think that, quite often, even if we feel powerless within our institutions because of our identity, our […]

]]> 6ef1234cd2f5ea8b2496a63249841a38 Jen Hoyer (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Power, Precarity, and Care in the Digital Humanities https://dhprecarity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=916 Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:48:34 -0500 by Jen Hoyer

In looking over the syllabus, I’m glad to see Bethany Nowviskie’s writing assigned for week 6. I’m a big fan of confronting the reality of the environmental impacts of digital projects, and while […]

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