As an anthropologist enmeshed in the digital humanities and digitally based rights advocacy, I am committed to exploring research on how we make claims to seeing toxicity writ large, both externally and internally. As a researcher who runs the technical infrastructure for a large ditial collaborative ethnographic network, much of which tends to questions about visualizing asthma and disaster, I remain fascinated as to the decisions made by ethnographers in selecting which toxicities to render visible and which continue to remain unseen. I am therefore interested in developing collaborations with others to develop best practices for the selection, curation, and long-term maintenance of visualizing toxic subjects, including the visual artifacts themselves, hermeneutics, and engagement with broader political communities, that further our own reflexive praxis and develop deeper connections with our toxic subjects. My goals are two-fold: first, to broaden what can be considered a viable visualization, particularly within the digital realm, and; second, to query what our responsibilities are as researchers developing best practices for the digital humanities to anticipate and limit the abilities of others to produce toxic interpretations of our data, conclusions, and experiments in the digital humanities.
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