#dhpoco is a community of scholars committed to exploring issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability within technology through a theoretical model that blends postcolonial critique with digital humanities. Social media plays an important role for #dhpoco by providing a space for scholarly invention, playfulness and collaboration through platforms like Twitter and Tumblr. It also allows conversations to be directed towards actionable outcomes like websites and summer schools that further the goals of #dhpoco.

2. #dhpoco

3. What is #dhpoco?
 A community of scholars committed to global
explorations of race, class, gender, sexuality,
and disability within cultures of technology
 A theoretical model that blends postcolonial
critique with digital humanities
 An emergent field of study invested in
decolonizing the digital, foregrounding anti-
colonial thought, and disrupting narratives of
technological progress

4. Lessons from #dhpoco
Social media provides a mode of
scholarly invention
Social media revives the art of
playfulness in scholarly inquiry
Social media directed towards
actionable outcomes yields scholarly
transformation

5. Social Media as Invention

6. Social Media as Invention
The hashtag (#dhpoco) as site of
inquiry
Twitter as forum of collaboration and
experimentation
Twitter as a permanent and
impermanent mode of scholarly
communication
http://twitter.com/dhpoco

7. Social Media as Invention

8. Social Media as Invention
Tumblr as space of curation and
creation
Curated links and posts related to
#dhpoco yielded archive of #dhpoco
origins
Tumblr tags reveal organic evolution of
core concepts of #dhpoco
http://dhpoco.tumblr.com

9. Social Media as Play

10. Social Media as Play
Social media fosters invention and play
for #dhpoco
Engagement with social media creates
culture of mixing and remixing, thinking
and rethinking
Social media reinforces importance of
feedback and openness to widening
community of #dhpoco

11. Social Media and
Actionable Goals
Levering social media for scholarly
communication requires attaching
conversations on social media to
actionable outcomes

12. Social Media and
Actionable Goals
http://www.dhpoco.org

13. Social Media and
Actionable Goals
http://dhpoco.org/summerschool

14. Join #dhpoco
Twitter: #dhpoco
Website: http://dhpoco.org
#dhpoco founders: Adeline Koh
(@adelinekoh) and Roopika Risam
(@roopikarisam)