Last spring dh+lib published the special issue “Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities,” which featured seven case studies on ways critical making could be integrated into a digital humanities (DH) research practice. This follow-up special issue features concrete ways we can integrate critical making into our (library) instruction. Given the library’s role in technology instruction and data literacy–as well as its function as a space that embraces creative methods–we wanted to provide some explicit examples of teaching methods that can work in everything from a technological one-shot to a more embedded instructional model. If you want to know more about what data physicalization is and why it is a great tool for DH, please see the introduction to that previous issue.
Editors’ Choice: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data: A dh+lib Special Issue
