-
If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.
-
Whenever you search in PBworks or on the Web, Dokkio Sidebar (from the makers of PBworks) will run the same search in your Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Gmail, Slack, and browsed web pages. Now you can find what you're looking for wherever it lives. Try Dokkio Sidebar for free.
| |
Class 2 Notes
Page history
last edited
by Alan Liu 8 years, 7 months ago
Preliminary Class Business
1. Doing DH in This Course: Practical First Steps
- Basic Twitter
- List of class members on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanyliu/lists/english-236-ucsb-f2014
- Twitter clients -- e.g.,
- Twitter tools & search -- e.g.,
- Twitter Best Practices & Protocol:
- Following
- Subscribing to lists
- Retweeting
- Retweeting with comment or modification: "Comment: RT..."or "Comment: MT..."
- Replying
- the "[dot]@username" convention
- Threading posts (reply to yourself)
- Mentioning (vs. "subtweeting")
- Crediting "via @username" or "H/T @username")
- Favoriting
- Common abbreviations: +1, <3, ICYMI, #FF
2. Digital Humanities and the Humanities (continued)
- Focal Question What kind of "human" subject do the digital humanities speak from, to, for?
- Focal Readings ("focal readings" are chosen to prompt discussion in class)
- What is the relation of "media technology" to the "human"?
- (What difference would it make to substitute for "media" in the phrase "media technology" any of the following: "information," "communication," "computational"?)
- Is media technology necessary for being human?
- What kind of human is the digital humanities for?
- James R. Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986)
- Hayles
- Deligny
3. State of the Digital Humanities Field
- Focal Question Where is digital humanities? (methodologically, institutionally, socially, geopolitically)
[Some of the focal readings from class 1 will be reprised to complement the more professionally-oriented readings of class 2 about the "field."]
- Alan Liu, "The State of the Digital Humanities: A Report and a Critique," Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 11.1-2 (2012): 8-41 [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
- Matthew Jockers, "Welcome to the Big Tent," DH 2011 conference, Stanford U., 19-22 June 2011.
- Tom Scheinfeldt, "The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing Digital Humanities’ Diverse Family Tree/s" (2014)
- Stephen Ramsay, "On Building" (2011)
- Natalia Cecire, "Theory and the Virtues of Digital Humanities" (Introduction to section on "Conversations"), Journal of Digital Humanities 1.1 [PDF] (Winter 2011): 44-53.
- Amanda Phillips, "#transformDH -- A Call to Action Following ASA 2011" (26 October 2011); see also the #transformDH web site
- Postcolonial Digital Humanities (#dhpoco) Open Thread, 10-14 May 2013
- James Smithies, "Speaking Back to America, Localizing DH Postcolonialism" (2013)
- GO::DH (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities) [browse site]
- Other Readings
- Patrik Svensson, "Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities" (2009)
- Melissa Terras / U. College London Digital Humanities, "Infographic: Quantifying Digital Humanities" (2012) [download the PDF infographic]
- DiRT (Digital Research Tools) Directory and DARIAH-DE (Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities), "TaDiRaH: Taxonomy of DH Research Activities and Objects" (2014)| see also explanation of TaDiRaH
- Browse titles in the tables of contents of the following essay collections or conferences:
- A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (Blackwell, 2004)
- A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman (Blackwell, 2007)
- Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold (University of Minnesota Press, 2012); open access edition, 2013.
- Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, ed. Kenneth M. Price and Ray Siemens (MLA Commons, 2013)
- Digital Humanities 2014 conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 July 2014.
- The Dark Side of the Digital conference, U. Milwaukee, 2-4 May 2013. See also the subsequent "In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities," special issue of Differences, 25.1 (2014) [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
- Digital Humanities Panels at MLA 2014 (compiled by Mark Sample)
(3a) DH as Professional Field
- DH is currently defining itself, and being defined, as a professional field:
Higher Education (plus Cultural Institutions) > Humanities > Digital Humanities
Should it be a field?
- What is the relation between DH and the "new media studies" field? (cf. U. Minnesota Press "Electronic Mediations" and MIT Press New Media book series)
(3b) The "Building" Controversy
Who's right about the role of building in DH? What's the relation of the humanities to building?
(3c) Social and Geo-Politics of DH
"Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" > How can digital humanities be cultural-critical?
Class 2 Notes
|
|
Tip: To turn text into a link, highlight the text, then click on a page or file from the list above.
|
|
|
|
|
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.