RUL Scholarly and Professional Activity Committee

Title: Web Publishing for Pirates, Or, Reusing Common, Open, and/or Minimal Technologies to Get Your Stuff on the Web

Presenter: Francesca Giannetti

Abstract: What kind of thing do you want to publish to the web? What conditions, whether personal, institutional, or otherwise, have hindered you? Channeling the ethos of “Pirate Care,”^[1] this interactive talk will invite discussion on strategies for getting your work before an online audience, from the quick and easy, to the bespoke, slightly painful, but arguably more liberating because less beholden to unwieldy infrastructures. We will start with two case studies on the bespoke end of the spectrum—Music DH 2021 and Personal Correspondence of the War Service Bureau—and look at practical ways that we can foster a community of digital making by exchanging resources and tools to co-create solutions in gray areas where an institutional hand-off cannot be easily negotiated.

^[1] “Pirate Care is a research process… that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”, which in new and interesting ways are trying to intervene in one of the most important challenges of our time, that is, the ‘crisis of care’ in all its multiple and interconnected dimensions." See https://syllabus.pirate.care/.