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Curious about art, craft, making and want a supportive community, source or asking questions and sharing work, cool inspiration and neat work photos in your life? (Or do this work already and want to get more involved?) The post is below is by Amanda, Claudia, and Quinn—a few of the many #DHmakes community members, who’ve described the community in a couple places. We’re gathering those descriptions into one post (though a hashtag in use across multiple platforms is defined by its users, so we aren’t the authority, and its use will evolve over time!).
We published a peer-reviewed article in the Korean Journal of Digital Humanities,”#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse”, if you want to know a lot about the community’s origins, history, and outputs.
If you want a ✨tl;dr✨ though, here’s a FAQ!
Who started this?
We’re digital humanities people who incorporate physical making/art into our work (or do it as a hobby and share it online somewhere)!
Who is this for?
#DHmakes is loosely folks in digital humanities/libraries/academia/learning-work who craft/make (including as non-job hobby), open to anyone interested.
What kinds of things get posted?
What kinds of making/crafting?
All of them? We’re interested in an expansive definition and especially things that have sometimes gotten left out of how people think of makerspaces/making, such as textile art. Other frequent areas of interest tagged #DHmakes include craft/making work related to:
For examples, check out Quinn’s Textile Makerspace, Claudia’s and Gabby Evergreen’s “Pockets of Information”, Jacqueline Wernimont’s “Visualizing Energy Data or Visceralizing Energy Transitions”, and Amanda’s Scholars’ Lab “expansive makerspace”-tagged posts page.
Why have I been tagged #DHmakes?
Folks RT/repost cool, relevant craft/making work with the tag so others get to admire them too.
Am I “DH enough” to use the hashtag?
The “DH” in #DHmakes is digital humanities. We’re guessing the other most active hashtag users agree with us: anyone curious about DH (not necessarily “experienced” or in a “DH job”) should participate! Workers, students, hobbyists in areas like gallery/library/archive/museum/learning that are DH or feel adjacent too.
Have you done things beyond using a hashtag?
Yes!
You can follow #DHmakes using a feed of all tagged posts, or a feed of just the #DHmakes posts that include photos.
All the resources mentioned in this talk are listed at tinyurl.com/intro-bluesky. Most useful is my Bluesky for Academics guide at tinyurl.com/DHBluesky, which remains regularly updated and contains both very-quick cheatsheet and incredibly detailed versions of how to get started understanding Bluesky use for DHers, GLAM folks, and other knowledge work folks. At the end of that guide is a sortable list of “starter packs”, feeds, and lists gathering folks to follow on Bluesky around topics like DH, critical tech, expansive making & crafting, queer studies, social justice work, and more.
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