9/9 Introductions
9/16 DEFINING DH
What is DH/Defining the Digital Humanities
Reading:
- Debates in the Digital Humanities:
- Introduction
- Part I: Defining the Digital Humanities
- Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term”
- Matt Gold, “Digital Humanities” from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality
- Steven E. Johns, Introduction and Chapter 1 of Emergence of the Digital Humanities
- Susan Hockey, “The History of Humanities Computing” from A Companion to Digital Humanities
- The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide
9/23 DATA VISUALIZATION: LEV MANOVICH
Lev Manovich (CUNY Graduate Center) on Data Visualization
Reading
- Lev Manovich, “Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data,” “How to Compare One Million Images”
- Lev Manovich, “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections”
- Lev Manovich, “What is Visualization”
Playing:
- Visualization projects: check out “History Flow”
- Ben Fry, “On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces”
- Explore the Visual Complexity websites
9/30 TOPIC MODELING: DAVID MIMNO
David Mimno (Cornell University) on Topic Modeling
Reading
- Topic Modeling issue of Journal of Digital Humanities
- David Mimno, Computational Historiography: Data Mining in a Century
of Classics Journals - Matthew Jockers, Macroanalysis, selected chapters
9/30 >>>> WORKSHOP: Topic Modeling with David Mimno, 7pm-9pm
10/7 THEORY AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Reading:
- Debates in the Digital Humanities: Theorizing DH section
- Journal of Digital Humanities 1.1 Conversations section on theory and DH
10/15 DIGITAL WRITING AND MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY: MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM
Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) on “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing.”
Readings:
- Jacques Derrida, “The Word Processor” from Paper Machine [pdf]
- Matthew Fuller’s “It Looks Like You’re Writing a Letter”
- Matthew Kirschenbaum “The Book-Writing Machine”
- Scott Bukatman, “Gibson’s Typewriter” (PDF)
- Stephen King, “Word Processor of the Gods” (PDF)
10/15 >>>> WORKSHOP: Matthew Kirschenbaum, 7:15pm-9pm
10/21 HUMANISTIC FABRICATION AND PHYSICAL COMPUTING: WILLIAM TURKEL
William Turkel (Western University Ontario) on humanistic fabrication and physical computing
Readings:
- Elliott, MacDougall & Turkel “New Old Things: Fabrication, Physical Computing and Experiment in Historical Practice,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 37, no. 1 (2012)
- William Turkel, “A Few Arguments for Humanistic Fabrication,” Digital History Hacks (2008)
- William Turkel, “Designing Interactive Exhibits,” williamjturkel.net (2011)
- Weiser & Seely Brown, “The Coming Age of Calm Technology,” Xerox PARC (1996)
- Whitelaw, “Transduction, Transmateriality, and Expanded Computing,” The Teeming Void (2009)
Preview what we will be doing in the workshop:
- William Turkel “Getting Started with Max 6,” williamjturkel.net
- William Turkel, “Connecting the Phidgets InterfaceKit to Max 6”
10/21 >>>> WORKSHOP: Physical computing workshop with William Turkel, 7:15pm-9pm
10/28 DIGITAL PEDAGOGY
Digital Pedagogy
Readings:
- Teaching the Digital Humanities section of Debates in the Digital Humanities
- From Digital Humanities Pedagogy:
- Introduction
- Chapter 6 (Gold)
- Chapter 8 (Mahoney, Pierazzo)
- Chapter 9 (Ramsay)
- Chapter 14 (Spiro)
11/4 SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: KATHLEEN FITZPATRICK
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Modern Language Association) on scholarly communication.
Reading:
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence
- Hacking the Academy: Hacking Scholarship section
Playing
- Take part in a public open peer review experiment.
11/4 >>>> WORKSHOP: Developing a Scholarly Online Presence with Kathleen Fitzpatrick
11/11 RAY SIEMENS ON THE DIGITAL SOCIAL EDITION
Ray Siemens on the Digital Social Edition
Readings:
- Three Annotated Bibliographies Related to Social Knowledge Creation (PDF)
- Toward Modeling the Social Edition: An Approach to Understanding the Electronic Scholarly Edition in the Context of New and Emerging Social Media” (PDF)
11/11 >>>> WORKSHOP: Social Knowledge Construction with Ray Siemens, 7:15pm-9pm
11/18 KATINA ROGERS ON ALT-ACADEMIC CAREERS
Katina Rogers (Modern Language Association) on Alt-Academic Careers
Readings
- Katina Rogers, “Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track.” Scholarly Communication Institute (August 2013).
- Alt-Academy: Alternative Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars: Essays by:
Julia Flanders, Lisa Spiro, Doug Reside, Tom Scheinfeldt, Gilbert/Graham/Johnson - Bethany Nowviskie, “Toward a New Deal”
- Michael Bérubé, “The Humanities, Unraveled” (Chronicle, Feb 2013)
- William Pannapacker, “Just Look at the Data, If You Can Find Any” (Chronicle, June 2013)
- Julie Miller Vick & Jennifer S. Furlong, “How We Reached This Point” (Part 1 and Part 2) (Chronicle, Sep 2013)
- Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, “The Repurposed Ph.D.” (NYTimes, Nov 2013)
11/18 >>>> WORKSHOP: “Pragmatic Career Search Strategies” (please bring whatever you have in terms of a CV or résumé, and try searching for a job or two before the session)
11/25 PROJECT MANAGEMENT: TOM SCHEINFELDT
Tom Scheinfeldt (University of Connecticut) on managing DH projects
Reading:
- Tom Scheinfeldt, Intro to Project Management Notes
- Bethany Nowviskie, Ten Rules for Humanities Scholars New to Project Management (pdf)
- Sharon Leon, “Project Management for Humanists”
- John Unsworth, “The Importance of Failure”
11/25 >>>> WORKSHOP: “The Ph.D’s MBA: 10 Management Lessons from Digital Culture for the Academic Entrepreneur”
12/2 GEOSPATIAL HUMANITIES: STEVE ROMALEWSKI
Steve Romalewski (CUNY Graduate Center) on geospatial humanities
Readiings:
New tools for online cartography
- MapBox www.mapbox.com
- Openstreetmap editing tools: https://www.mapbox.com/openstreetmap/
- Stamen basemaps: http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782
- Derek Eder’s template w/Fusion Tables: http://derekeder.com/searchable_map_template/
Annotating online maps to provide context and narrative
- ESRI Storymap gallery http://storymaps.esri.com/home/
- Example of AMNH map http://research.amnh.org/~scrane/storymap/pc_2009/index.html
- Rob Paral’s map gallery http://www.robparal.com/gallery/index.html
- National Geographic storymap gallery: http://www.geostories.org/portal
Example: http://www.geostories.org/portal/player/bronx-river-blueway/gesE63F0DFC5A676A77
Mapping tutorials
- Google Fusion Tables (with NYC data example): http://www.smalldatajournalism.com/projects/one-offs/mapping-with-fusion-tables/
- Storymap how-to from ComputerWorld Mag: http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/111965
- Open source mapping on the web: https://github.com/nvkelso/geo-how-to
Critical cartography blogs
Some recent Center for Urban Research projects
- NYC Election Atlas: http://www.nycelectionatlas.com/
- Changing demographics: http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/comparinator/pluralitymap.htm
12/9 RACE, SURVEILLANCE, AND TECHNOLOGY: SIMONE BROWNE
Simone Browne (University of Texas at Austin) on race, surveillance, and technology
Readings:
- Simone Browne (2012): “Everybody’s Got a Little Light Under the Sun.” Cultural Studies, 26:4, 542-564. (PDF)
- Simone Browne, “Race and Surveillance.” Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (forthcoming). (PDF)
12/9 >>>> WORKSHOP: Surveillance, Aesthetics and Resistance with Zach Blas and Simone Browne
12/16 Final presentations
