Erasure, Misrepresentation and Confusion: Investigating JSTOR Topics on Women’s and Race Histories

作者：Sharon Block, UC-Irvine

转载来源：DIgital Humanities Quarterly, 14.1, 2020, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/1/000448/000448.html

本文研究了目前被广泛使用的全文学术出版物数据库JSTOR的主题标注系统，尤其参考了北美殖民历史的相关学术。通过批评算法和批评档案研究的视角，分析了JSTOR的主题是如何反复歪曲和抹掉女性、非洲流散/非裔美国人、美国原住民和定居者的殖民历史的。本文讨论了元数据的力量、透明的和有领域专家参与的索引过程的必要性，以及数字提供者对学者的工作进行准确分类的责任。它特别关注通过看似种族主义或性别歧视的话题标签阻碍知识发现，对传统边缘研究领域造成的潜在不成比例的伤害。

作者简介：

Sharon Block 

Sharon Block is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Rape and Sexual Power in Early America (2006), Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America (2018), and some of the earliest articles aplying topic modeling in the humanities, including “Doing More with Digitization: An Introduction to Topic Modeling of Early American Sources”, Common-place: the Interactive Journal of Early American Life (2006) and with D. Newman, “What, Where, When and Sometimes Why: Data Mining Women’s History Abstracts, 1985-2005”, Journal of Women’s History (2011).