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Obama's rhetoric of connection -- Obama's rhetoric of transparency -- Obama's rhetoric of participation -- Obama's rhetoric of access -- Representing representation -- Identity politics and posthuman technologies -- Hilary Clinton, digital privacy, and gender -- Trump's rhetoric of connection -- Trump's rhetoric of transparency -- Trump's rhetoric of access -- Together alone with Biden -- Trump's rhetoric of participation.

This paper discusses how Southern California serves as a site of regional advantage for developing new hybridized forms of interdisciplinary pedagogy, because networks of educators in higher education are connected by local hubs created by intercampus working groups, multidisciplinary institutes funded by government agencies, and philanthropic organizations that fund projects that encourage implementation of instructional technologies that radically re-imagine curricula, student interaction, and the spaces and interfaces of learning. It describes ten trends in interdisciplinary pedagogy and case studies from four college campuses that show how these trends are being manifested.

Digital collaborations are often stymied because institutions of higher education are increasingly divided between two cultures: the culture of knowledge and the culture of information. Campuses primarily remain institutions of knowledge, although practices of information acquisition can no longer be ignored, especially since the advent of networked computing and study with digital texts. Yet the traditional division of labor and the ownership of intellectual property within the academy are threatened by digital collaborations; and the claims of information theory, which is associated with epistemologies of uncertainty and probability, challenge conservative ideologies of university culture. As a result, policies for the development of hybrid instruction and digital archives are often dictated by "Virtualpolitik," or the Realpolitik of virtual institutions, in lieu of a long-term vision for meaningful institutional change. This paper examines four Internet-based initiatives designed to improve cross-campus teaching and learning in California public universities - MERLOT, CPR, UCWRITE, and SPIDER - and argues that effective programs with lasting legacies take advantage of a "bazaar" rather than a "cathedral" development model and incorporate meaningful "information literacy" objectives that go beyond the mastery of particular terms and tools.

"Selfie Democracy exposes the unintended consequences of wireless technologies on political leadership and shows how seemingly benign mobile devices that hold out the promise of direct democracy ultimately undermine representative forms of government and deepen partisan divides. As the smart phone and mobile applications are reshaping civic participation, attitudes about freedom, civic rights, and national security are also changing. Losh shows how the crisis management styles of US leaders over the past decade are closely related to their technological choices and digital literacies"--

Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns target citizens with messages from the government--even as officials make news with digital gaffes involving embarrassing e-mails, instant messages, and videos. In Virtualpolitik, Elizabeth Losh closely examines the government's digital rhetoric in such cases and its dual role as mediamaker and regulator. Looking beyond the usual focus on interfaces, operations, and procedures, Losh analyzes the ideologies revealed in government's digital discourse, its anxieties about new online practices, and what happens when officially sanctioned material is parodied, remixed, or recontextualized by users. Losh reports on a video game that panicked the House Intelligence Committee, pedagogic and therapeutic digital products aimed at American soldiers, government Web sites in the weeks and months following 9/11, PowerPoint presentations by government officials and gadflies, e-mail as a channel for whistleblowing, digital satire of surveillance practices, national digital libraries, and computer-based training for health professionals. Losh concludes that the government's "virtualpolitik"--its digital realpolitik aimed at preserving its own power--is focused on regulation, casting as criminal such common online activities as file sharing, video-game play, and social networking. This policy approach, she warns, indefinitely postpones building effective institutions for electronic governance, ignores constituents' need to shape electronic identities to suit their personal politics, and misses an opportunity to learn how citizens can have meaningful interaction with the virtual manifestations of the state.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Materiality -- 1 "Danger, Jane Roe!" Material Data Visualization as Feminist Praxis -- 2 The Android Goddess Declaration: After Man(ifestos) -- 3 What Passes for Human? Undermining the Universal Subject in Digital Humanities Praxis -- 4 Accounting and Accountability: Feminist Grant Administration and Coalitional Fair Finance -- Part II: Values -- 5 Be More Than Binary -- 6 Representation at Digital Humanities Conferences (2000- 2015) -- 7 Counting the Costs: Funding Feminism in the Digital Humanities -- 8 Toward a Queer Digital Humanities -- Part III: Embodiment -- 9 Remaking History: Lesbian Feminist Historical Methods in the Digital Humanities -- 10 Prototyping Personography for The Yellow Nineties Online: Queering and Querying History in the Digital Age -- 11 Is Twitter Any Place for a [Black Academic] Lady? -- 12 Bringing Up the Bodies: The Visceral, the Virtual, and the Visible -- Part IV: Affect -- 13 Ev- Ent- Anglement: A Script to Reflexively Extend Engagement by Way of Technologies -- 14 Building Pleasure and the Digital Archive -- 15 Delivery Service: Gender and the Political Unconscious of Digital Humanities -- Part V: Labor -- 16 Building Otherwise -- 17 Working Nine to Five: What a Way to Make an Academic Living? -- 18 Minority Report: The Myth of Equality in the Digital Humanities -- 19 Complicating a "Great Man" Narrative of Digital History in the United States -- Part VI: Situatedness -- 20 Can We Trust the University? Digital Humanities Collaborations with Historically Exploited Cultural Communities -- 21 Domestic Disturbances: Precarity, Agency, Data -- 22 Project | Process | Product: Feminist Digital Subjectivity in a Shifting Scholarly Field -- 23 Decolonizing Digital Humanities: Africa in Perspective