Preliminary Class Business

Enrollment
Scheduling issue with Class 6 (Nov. 11)

1. Doing DH in This Course: Practical First Steps

Introduction to working on the Student Work site for this course

Wiki membership (example of invitation to join "workspace")
The nature of a wiki and "Editor" level user permissions (PBWorks permission levels)
Basic editing, linking, and uploading procedures:

Go to the Student Work branch of the course site.
Log in
Edit an existing page

GUI vs. source-code view
adding a link
adding an image
uploading content (images, docs, pdfs, etc.)

Create a new page

Through the Pages & Files menu
By creating a link to still to be created page
Putting a page in a folder

Wiki editing help available in sidebar of site

"Page history" (versioning) feature

Practicum Assignment for Class 3 (Encoding)

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.,

Topsy (search, analytics)
Hootsuite (scheduled posting, analytics)
TweetsMap (analyzes and maps geographical location of one's Twitter followers)
Visible Tweets ("Visible Tweets is a visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public space")
[For more tools, see "Big List of Twitter Tools"]

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

Blog / Content Management System Platforms (e.g., WordPress.com, WordPress.org)

Some sites that suggest or compare blogging platforms: 1 | 2 | 3

2. Digital Humanities and the Humanities (continued)

Focal Question What kind of "human" subject do the digital humanities speak from, to, for?

Tweet from Digital Humanities Venice Fall School:
https://twitter.com/yrochat/status/520113359438741504/photo/1

Focal Readings ("focal readings" are chosen to prompt discussion in class)

Plato, from Phaedrus (the myth of Theuth and the invention of writing)
Hippolyte Taine, "Introduction" to History of English Literature (1863) [online in sequential sections: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII]
Marshall McLuhan, excerpts from Understanding Media (1964) (read excerpts from "Introduction" and "The Medium is the Message")
N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012), read pp. 27-31 on "Scale Matters" [PDF] (Google Books version)
Drew S. Burk, "Living Network Ecologies: A Triptych on the Universe of Fernand Deligny -- Part 1" (2013)

See also on Deligny's "wander lines": Cartes et lignes d'erre

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?

Can animals have media?

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)

Focal Readings

[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

Stephen Ramsay, "On Building" (2011) [live site]
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.
Tom Scheinfeldt and Ryan Shaw, "Words and Code" (2011)

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

Amanda Phillips, "#transformDH -- A Call to Action Following ASA 2011" (26 October 2011); see also the #transformDH web site
Wikipedia: "Feminist Digital Humanities" (article started March 2013)
Postcolonial Digital Humanities (#dhpoco) Open Thread, 10-14 May 2013
The Dark Side of the Digital conference, U. Milwaukee, 2-4 May 2013.
GO::DH (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities)
Melissa Terras / U. College London Digital Humanities, "Infographic: Quantifying Digital Humanities" (2012) [download the PDF infographic]
James Smithies, "Speaking Back to America, Localizing DH Postcolonialism" (2013)

"Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" > How can digital humanities be cultural-critical?

Class 2 Notes