Fall 2018 || HSCI 4613/5613

Prof. Katherine Pandora Office Hours: TuTh 12:15-1:15 & by appt. Office: PHSC 619 email: [email protected]

Issues and Methods in Digital Humanities

Over the last decade the name “digital humanities” has emerged within academia to refer to a number of far-flung, rapidly shifting, and loosely-connected humanities projects that make use of computational power to explore questions in history, literature, language, media, philosophy, the “Steampunk Totoro” used by permission of Zzzeus at deviantart arts, and cultural studies. Three key opportunities have changed the nature of the questions that Our class discussions will also have an online dimension, scholars can pursue, and have shifted the with short blog posts based on selections from the boundaries of what constitutes academic research readings. For the final assignment, students will design in the humanities: 1) the capability to digitize an individual project that they can develop into a source materials of all kinds; 2) the application of prototype by the end of the term. software programs to process large amounts of data at great speed (on a scale not physically possible by Over the course of the semester you’ll be introduced to, or single scholars or even teams of scholars working become more familiar with, a variety of digital tools based with analog methods); and, 3) and the linking of on software applications which ground the pursuit of these sources and results via electronic networking digital humanities in academia. That doesn’t mean that for further digital manipulation by others. these methods are only of use inside the university – and, indeed, we’ll be thinking as well about how This seminar provides an in-depth methods, ideas, and projects from digital opportunity for advanced undergraduates and humanities can be put to work out in the wider graduate students to think critically, world, although perhaps toward different ends and creatively, and contextually about digital making different kinds of discoveries than is typical in humanities and new media and to experiment academic humanities. together in a collaborative learning environment. We’ll explore what others have done by We will not limit ourselves to a view of digital studying exemplary digital projects and reading humanities as an outgrowth of university selected essays that provide theoretical perspectives ecosystems. We will also make the following – and we’ll also work on a group project and assumption: that even if digital humanities within present and discuss our responses, reflections, and university environments had never developed, assessments of these efforts. Our weekly seminars digital humanities exists nonetheless. This other will be divided between discussions of the readings digital humanities is found within public web 2.0 assigned for that week and a hands-on section environments that support everyday participatory cultures, that continues on from a short practicum collaboration, sharing, interactivity, remixing and experience that students have tried out prior to continuous re-education: a world of steampunk totoros class, allowing us to further develop these with lessons from which we can learn. experiments.

Assignments / Due Dates

1. Participation (10%): Participation is comprised of regular attendance, consistent preparation for the in-class discussions and practicum follow-ons, a demonstrated ability to listen carefully and respectfully to others and a willingness to share your own thoughts. [graded s/u]

*Graduate student supplementary work: As part of the participation component, graduate students will also do two of the following activities during the semester (weeks 2-12): 1) [required] Subscribe to h+d insights [MIT’s “Hyperstudio” newsletter — info at http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/ ]; and, 2) choose one of the following six to follow during the semester via twitter: #digitalhumanities; #dh; @dhnow; @DHandLib; #digitalhistory; or @MLACommons. [If you have an alternative you’d like to follow instead, let me know].

2. Practicum Journal (15%): For each week (from week 2 through 12; one can be missed) there will be a short practicum (a “homework” assignment ) that asks you to explore and practice using a digital tool – these assignments are the first part of a two-step process. The second step consists of our following-on as a group from each of your solo trial runs at our next class meeting with a debriefing and some additional exploration. You’ll write 10 weekly short informal reflections on your choices and what impressions, questions, and evaluations you have based on your experiences (approx. 500 words). [These should be completed by the start of the weekly seminar session. You’ll turn them in 2 or 3 times during the semester for review.] The journal can be handwritten notes or in a digital format. [graded s/u]

*Graduate student supplementary work: After each week’s class is over, graduate students will also add further thoughts to their original set of notes, drawing on their post-class session reflections (approx. 250-300 words).

3. Blogging (25%): Eight weekly posts of approx. 500 words from the assigned reading that present key points and questions that we should take up for discussion, based on a subset of the readings from the schedule. [weeks 3-6 and 8-12; one can be missed]

*Graduate student supplementary work: After week 10, using the class blog, graduate students will select 2 of their own posts and 6 others that they found to be particularly noteworthy and will write a brief discussion paper (approx. 750-1000 words) explaining what was selected and why. Due anytime between weeks 11-13.

4. Group Project (25%): We’ll be creating a website from within a digital humanities framework that focuses on The Whole Earth Catalogs from the 1970s. While this is a collective effort, each student will follow their own individual interests in carrying out the assignment and will be graded individually.

*Graduate student supplementary work: A brief report (approx. 750-1000 words) that assesses the website after our finish date in week 8.

5. Final Project (25%): An individually-designed project that will have as its main focus either: 1) hands-on experimentation with a tool and a dataset (for example) to conduct an exploratory research project; or 2) researching a theoretical issue that arises from digital humanities projects (either generally, or in a specific discipline) and writing a paper (ugs 6-7 pp., grads 10-12 pp.) If option 1 is chosen a short essay explaining issues related to the methods will supplement the project results (ugs 3-4 pp., grads 5-6 pp.). If option 2 is chosen the results of a relevant hands-on practicum example will supplement the paper. [Proposal due Week 11. Project Due Wednesday, December 12th at 5:00 p.m. / this is instead of a final exam at the last class meeting.]

Undergraduate and Graduate Text • Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner & Jeffery Schnapp, Digital_Humanities (MIT Pr, 2012). Any version is fine. Note: This text is available as an online pdf, which can be downloaded from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcfhiphslciqe2k/9248.pdf?dl=0

Graduate Student Text • David Berry and Anders Fagerjord, Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age (Polity, 2017). Any version is fine. Note: The first two chapters will be available via canvas, and there will be a copy on Reserve at the Circulation Desk.

optional pre-reading: If you are new to digital humanities, or would like some background orientation for the seminar, the following should be useful to take a look at: • Humanities 2.0: New York Times series, Patricia Cohen, 2011 • Humanities 3.0: Tooling Up for Digital Humanities [] • Susan Hockey, “The History of Humanities Computing” in Susan Schriebman, Ray Siemens, and Jon Unsworth, eds., A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell 2004)

...... • Note: Students will select readings from the weekly list on the schedule; we’ll discuss the options ahead of time. The number of items listed is greater than what is required so that there is a variety from which to choose, and to serve as a fuller reference set in the future.

[ schedule: readings / practicums / topics / due dates ]

[Items marked with an * are graduate student readings]

note: prep to do prior to week 1

background reading for week 1’s class • “Humanities to Digital Humanities” (Chapter 1) in Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffry Schnapp, Digital_Humanities (MIT Pr, 2012) • Edward Ayers, “Where the Humanities Live,” Daedalus, Winter 2009 Issue -- “Reflecting on the Humanities” • Gretchen Busl, “Humanities Research is Life-changing, Ground-breaking, and . . . Ignored,” The Guardian, Oct. 2015 • Frederick Gibbs and Daniel J. Cohen, “A Conversation with Data: Prospecting Victorian Words and Ideas,” Victorian Studies, vol. 54, 2011

* David Berry and Anders Fagerjord, Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age (Polity, 2017) (Chapters 1-2)

video break • Steven Johnson, “Where Good Ideas Come From” (TED Talk, 2010)

week 1: 8/23 week 1 discussion: What are the Humanities? Where did they come from? What is their status in the wider world? background reading for week 1 in-class practicum How are they situated vis-à-vis other • “Humanities to Digital Humanities” (Chapter 1) in • Text analysis sandbox university subjects? What does it mean Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, • Blogging set-up to be an expert in the Humanities? Who Todd Presner, and Jeffry Schnapp, do they belong to, and why? In short: to Digital_Humanities (MIT Pr, 2012) whom do “the Humanities” matter? How • Edward Ayers, “Where the Humanities Live,” Daedalus, do we begin to make sense of the “Digital Winter 2009 Issue -- “Reflecting on the Humanities” Humanities” in relation to traditional • Gretchen Busl, “Humanities Research is Life-changing, Humanities? Ground-breaking, and . . . Ignored,” The Guardian, Oct. 2015 • Frederick Gibbs and Daniel J. Cohen, “A Conversation with Data: Prospecting Victorian Words and Ideas,” video break Victorian Studies, vol. 54, 2011 ▪ Steven Johnson, “Where Good Ideas Come From” (TED Talk, * David Berry and Anders Fagerjord, Digital Humanities: 2010) Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age (Polity, 2017) (Chapters 1-2)

week 2: 8/30 Journal entry due 8/30 week 2 discussion: Where do university scholars in the humanities start from in making sense of the digital core texts – reading for week 2 • online practicum shift in culture? Do these shifts have • all: Digital_Humanities / “Emerging Methods and Genres” Voyant ramifications for traditional institutions (Chapter 2) and “The Social Life of the Digital Humanities” • DiRT: Digital Research Tools of learning like universities and (Chapter 3) • The Mind is a Metaphor museums? What relationships exist between the public world of the digital *grad students: David Berry and Anders Fagerjord, Digital vernacular and academic digitality in the Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age humanities? (Polity, 2017) / chapters 3-4 and 6

video break background reading for week 2 • “Remind Me” (2002) by Röyskopp; • Jay Rosen, “The People Formerly Known as the Audience,” video by H5 [4.15 minutes] June 2006 • D. White & A. Le Cornu, “Visitors and Residents: A New Typology for Engagement,” First Monday, Sept. 2011 • Michael Peter Edson, “Dark Matter: The Dark Matter of the Internet is Open, Social, Peer-to-Peer, and Read/Write – and It’s the Future of Museums,” Code|Words, May 2014

week 3: 9/6 Blog Post Due 9.5 Journal entry due 9.6 week 3 discussion: How do approaches from digital humanities background reading for week 3 online practicum change how literary study is conducted? • Ted Underwood, “Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot • Ted Underwood, “A Dataset for Distant Reading What are the potential strengths and to Theorize Twenty Years Ago” Representations, 2014 in Literature in English, 1700-1922” / 2015 weaknesses of the tools being used and • Stephen Ramsay, “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; • Hathi Trust, “Word frequencies in English the research methods that are being or What You Do with a Million Books?” in Kevin Kee, ed. language literature 1700-1922” developed? What can other humanities Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with • Alan Liu’s list of text collections available to use disciplines learn from these projects? If Technology (U of Michigan Pr, 2014) as demo corpora members of the public are empowered • Franco Moretti, “The Slaughterhouse of Literature,” • Voyant by digital means to engage in literary Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 61, 2000 • DREaM studies, what do these activities look • Burdick, et al. Digital_Humanities, “A Portfolio of Case • Paper Machines like? Are these playful experiments Studies,” pp. 62-71 • TAPoR3 relevant to the academy or peripheral to • Sentiment Analysis it? Why or why not? * N. Katherine Hayles, “How We Read: Close, Hyper, • Prism Machine”, ADE Bulletin, 2010 • Word Tree and overview * Katherine Bode, “Literary Studies in the Digital Age” • Bookworm video break from Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary • AntConc and overview • “Medieval Helpdesk” [2:45 min] / Field (Anthem Press, 2012) Station NRK, Norway, 2007

week 4: 9/13 Blog Post Due 9.12 Journal entry due 9.13 week 4 discussion: Digital literary studies may be the area within digital background reading for week 4 online practicum humanities that has received the most “Forum: Text Analysis at Scale” in Matthew Gold & Lauren ▪ Re-vist DiRT with an eye toward what might relate scholarly attention for the longest period Klein, eds. Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 ed. to an idea(s) for a final project or to browse it to of time. What insights do the essays in generate candidate ideas for a final project; or the Forum contain about what has been generate a short bibliography if you think you are accomplished and how? What do the going to examine an issue for your final project essays suggest will make up the who, what, where, when and why for future efforts at digital text analysis? video break • Stéfan Sinclair, Distant Reading Early Modernity / 2015 [3:38 minutes]

week 5: 9/20 Blog Post Due 9.19 Journal entry due 9.20 week 5 discussion: At the foundational level, digital humanities background reading for week 5 online practicum projects depend on computational • Stephen Ramsay, “Databases,” in Susan Schreibman, Ray frameworks and technical practices that Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds., A Companion to Digital • Scalar Class Project Site | The Whole Earth require knowledge about detailed Humanities (Chapter 15) Catalog . . . and . . . operational and informational protocols. • Allen Renear, “Text Encoding,” in Susan Schreibman, Ray • Proceedings of the Old Bailey What is required of humanities Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds., A Companion to Digital • Richard Pryor’s Peoria researchers, and how are these needs Humanities (Chapter 17) • The Shelley-Godwin Archive met? Do humanities projects simply gain • Jeffrey Pomerantz, “Introduction,” “Definitions” and “The • The Walt Whitman Archive new options when methods and Semantic Web” in Metadata (MIT Pr, 2015) [canvas] • Women Writers Project materials drawn from the IT world are • Kieran Healey, “Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere” / 2013 • Darwin Online used? Is there a mutual adaptation • Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin, “Folksonomies: Tidying up • New York Public Library Digital Collections between the humanities and the Tags?” D-Lib magazine, vol. 12, January 2006 technological realms in digital • The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database • Alexis Wichowski, “Survival of the Fittest Tag: Folksonomies, humanities projects? What are • Google Books Findability, and the of Information Organization,” • The September 11 Digital ArchiveWhat examples? First Monday, May 2009 Middletown Read • Clay Shirky, “Ontology is overrated: categories, links and video break tags” • Data Sharing and Management Snafu

in 3 Short Acts” / NYU Health Sciences *Kenneth Price, “Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?” dhq, vol. 3, 2009

*Jonathan Senchyne, “Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2016 edition week 6: 9/27 Blog Post Due 9.26 Journal entry due 9.27 week 6 discussion: The politics of archiving has intensified due to background reading for week 6 online practicum questions such as whether to prioritize • Jeffrey Schnapp, “Animating the Archive,” First Monday, • Scalar Class Project Site | The Whole Earth digitizing the paper archives of the August 2008 Catalog . . . and . . famous as opposed to creating digital • Alexandra Eveleigh, “Participatory Archives” in Heather • Open Access Explained! [8:25 minutes] by Nick archives of those whose lives were never MacNeil and Terry Eastwood, eds. Currents of Archival Shockey and Jonathan Eisen, 2012 archived previously. Where do digital Thinking, 2nd ed (ABC-CLIO 2017) [canvas] • Open Access Week humanists in academia place themselves • Lev Manovich, “Cultural Data: Possibilities and Limitations • LibriVox in relation to these debates? of Digitized Archives” / 2017 • OpenCulture • Rick Prelinger, “We Are the New Archivists: Artisans, • Internet Archive Activists, Citizens” [ppt] / 2010 • New York Public Library Public Domains • Sheila Brennan, “Public, First” in Debates in the Digital Collections (and related article) Humanities 2016 edition

• Amanda Visconti, “Less intent, more impact: Transforming • Prelinger Archives: Home Movies public DH projects toward access, care, and inclusion” • Europeana • Nina Simon, “What Does it Really Mean to Serve • Digital Public Library of America (dp.la) ‘Underserved’ Audiences?” at Museum 2.0 / 2010 • The Public Domain Review • “What is Open Notebook Science?” *Kate Theimer, “The Future of Archives is Participatory: Archives as Platform, or a New Mission for Archives / 2014 video break * Berry and Fagerjord, Digital Humanities, Chapter 7 • Digital Humanities and the Case for Critical Commons [3:55 min] / Critical *M. Sidler, “Open Science and the Three Cultures: Commons, 2010 Expanding Open Science to all Domains of Knowledge Creation,” in S. Bartling and S. Friesike, eds. Opening Science: The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing (Springer Open 2014) [canvas] week 7: 10/4 No blog entry this week Journal entry due 10.4 week 7 discussion: What do “digital humanities” look like if we start from how background reading for week 7 online practicum communities who have been marginalized • Faye Ginsburg, “Rethinking the Digital Age,” in • Scalar Class Project Site on The Whole Earth in the academy use digital technologies Pamela Wilson and Michele Stewart, eds. Global Catalog and social media to interpret and critique Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics” the traditional uses of history, philosophy, (Duke U Pr, 2008) literature, and the arts (both implicitly • Amy Earhart, “Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the and explicitly)? What do the parameters New Digital Humanities Canon,” in Debates in the Digital of digital humanities projects look like if Humanities 2016 edition we start from projects that address topics • Marisa Parham, Black Haunts in the Anthropocene that have received little investment by the • Donovan X. Ramsey, “The Truth about Black Twitter,” scholarly community, rather than topics Atlantic Monthly, April 2015 that have? • Roopika Risam, “Decolonizing the Digital Humanities” in Jentery Sayers, ed., Companion to New Media and Digital video break Humanities (Routledge, 2018) [canvas] • Adeline Koh, “Scholarly Writing in • Moya Bailey, Anne Cong-Huyen, Alexis Lothian, Amanda the Digital Age” – on the comic strips Phillips, “Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, for #DHpoco [Postcolonial Digital Growing Up” in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Humanities] and more (2015) [17 edition minutes] *Miriam Posner, “What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities” in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 edition

Group Project Due about this time – we’ll agree on a time together

week 8: 10/11 Blog Post Due 10.10 Journal entry due 10.11 week 8 discussion: Historically, academic humanities have been overwhelmingly text-based background reading for week 8 online practicum and print-based in terms of research methods and • Virginia Kuhn, “Keyword: Multimodal” in Digital • Lev Grossman “Foreword” and Anne scholarly output, a circumstance that heavily Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, Jamison, “The Theory of Narrative influenced how humanities scholars experienced and Experiments / MLA Commons (2013) Causality” in Anne Jamison, Fic: Why computer-mediated forms of communication made • Erik Champion, “Digital Humanities is Text Fanfiction is Taking Over the World possible by the Internet (both pre- and post-Web). Heavy, Visualization Light, and Simulation Poor,” (Smartpop, 2013) + tumblr comments re It is the case, however, that what makes the digital in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 32, fanfic [canvas] realm so engaging for many public participants is 2017 • The Organization for Transformative Works / its accommodation of multimodal forms of • Tara McPherson, “Introduction: Media Studies Archive of Our Own (AO3) expression. Digital humanists are just beginning to and the Digital Humanities,” Cinema Journal, vol. • Everything is a Remix (multi-part video series grapple with how to bring together different 48, 2009 by Kirby Ferguson, 2010-2012) [38 minutes] methods, tools, and perspectives from a variety of • Tim Hitchcock, “Humanities2” / Historyonics • Fanlore wiki: Vidding (history of) disciplines to study this new media ecology. Are (2017) • Neda Ulaby, NPR (2009): Vidders talk back to there intersections between academic digital • Lev Manovich, “Data stream, database, timeline” their pop culture humanities and public digital humanities when we • Limor Shifman “Introduction” and “Meme • TV Tropes move beyond textuality? Genres” in Memes in Digital Culture (MIT • Meme Documentation

Pr, 2014) [canvas] • Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi, “Who Owns video break the Mods?” First Monday, May 2010 • Dance of the Line Riders by DoodleChaos / *Deb Verhoeven, “Doing the Sheep Good: • “We Asked, You Drew” / on the Fan Art in S8ep1 2018 [2:13 minutes] Facilitating Engagement in Digital Humanities from Bob’s Burgers (“Brunchsquatch”) [2:12

and Creative Arts Research,” in Paul Arthur and minutes] Katherine Bode, eds., Advancing Digital Humanities (Springer 2014) [canvas]

week 9: 10/18 Blog Post Due 10.17 Journal entry due 10.18 week 9 discussion: The visualizations that can be generated from textual and statistical data present background reading for week 9 online practicum challenges to what humanists think they know and • Maureen Stone, “Information Visualization: • ImagePlot how they think they know it -- both for digital Challenge for the Humanities,” CLIR Report, 2009 • dataviz tools humanities but also for traditional humanities. • Natalie Houston, “Visualizing the Cultural Field of • Aida: Image Analysis for Archival Discovery What is at stake in these challenges? How are these Victorian Poetry,” in Veronica Alfano and Andrew • Lev Manovich, “How to Compare One Million challenges related to using digital means to analyze Stauffer, eds., Virtual Victorians: Networks, Images” source material that is originally visual in format? Connections, Technologies (PalgraveMacmillan, • Eric Hoyt, Kevin Ponto, and Carrie Roy, 2015) [canvas] “Visualizing and Analyzing the Hollywood video break • John Theibault, “Visualizations and Historical Screenplay with Scrip Threads,” dhq,2014 • Cultural Analytics: Mark Rothko Paintings Argument,” from Writing in the Digital Age, eds. • Julia Silge, “She Giggles, He Gallops: Analyzing Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki (U of Gender Tropes in Film with Screen Direction from Michigan Pr, 2013) 2,000 Scripts”

• Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, “Feminist • J. Thomas, “Frontispiece,” in Nineteenth-Century Data Visualization” Illustration and the Digital (Palgrave Macmillan, • Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity 2017) [canvas] • Victoria Szabo, “Knowledge in 3D: How 3D Data • Prospect Data Visualization Visualization is Reshaping Our World,” • ImageQuilts (examples) Parameters, July 2018 • Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, and Milena Radzikowska, “Information Visualization for Humanities Scholars” in Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology / MLA Commons (2013)

*Tanya Clement, “Text Analysis, Data Mining, and Visualizations in Literary Scholarship,”at Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology / MLA Commons (2013) *Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” dhq, vol. 5, 2011

week 10: 10/25 Blog Post Due 10.24 Notebook entry due 10.24 week 10 discussion: How might digital tools from the geosciences, digital mapping, and information background reading for week 10 online practicum visualization (interactive, 3-D, and topological Richard White, “What is Spatial History?” / • New York Public Library Map Warper modeling) provide new avenues for humanities February 2010 • “Georeferencing Historic Maps: Going Further” at research, in terms of content, questions, and • Edward Ayers, “Turning toward Space, Place, and the spatial history blog and wiki interpretive strategies? How can these methods be Time” in David Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and • “Lesson 1: Intro to Google Map Engine Lite and used to study imagined places as well as real-world Trevor Harris, Google Earth” from The Programming Historian ones? How well do the sciences and the humanities The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of via The Geospatial Historian intermesh via Humanities GIS? Humanities Scholarship (Indiana U Pr, 2010) • Shanti Interactive • Andrew Torget, Rada Mihalcea, Jon • Gapminder website [and Hans Rosling video break Christenson, and Geoff McGhee, “White Paper: demonstration – 2006 TED Talk / [20 minutes] • Bernard Frischer, Rome Reborn 2.2: A Tour of Combining Text-Mining and Geo-Visualization” • Mapbox Ancient Rome in 320 CE / 2012 [5:20 minutes] from Mapping Texts and project website • Matthew Booker, “Visualizing San Francisco Bay’s Forgotten Past,” Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 1, 2012 • Todd Presner and David Shepard, “Mapping the Geospatial Turn,” in Susan Schriebman, Ray Siemens, and Jon Unsworth, eds., A New Companion to Digital Humanities (John Wiley, 2015) [canvas] • Excerpts from Charles B. Travis, Abstract

Machine: Humanities GIS (Esri Pr, 2015) • Zephyr Frank, “Spatial History as Scholarly Practice” in Patrick Svensson and David Theo Goldberg, eds., Between Humanities and the Digital (MIT Pr, 2015) • Stephen Robertson, “Putting Harlem on the Map ” from Writing in the Digital Age, eds. Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki (U of Michigan Pr, 2013) / Project Site: Digital Harlem

*The Emotions of London *Paul Jaskot, Anne Kelly Knowles, Andrew Wasserman, Stephen Whiteman & Benjamin Zweig, “A Research- Based Model for Digital Mapping and Art History: Notes from the Field,” Artl@s Bulletin, vol. 4, 2015

[ Final Project Proposal Sketch Due]

week 11: 11/1 Blog Post Due 10.31 Journal entry due 11.1 week 11 discussion: Who gets left out of participation in digital humanities extends background reading for week 11 online practicum beyond archival politics to the politics of the • A. McGrail, “The ‘Whole Game’: Digital Humanities • The Invasion of America map project and short inequitable distribution of digital resources. In at Community Colleges,” Debates in Digital video [1:30 minutes] what ways should academics allied with major Humanities 2016 • The Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761 institutions in North America and Europe be • “Digital Humanities for Social Good,” • Visualizing Emancipation concerned that the field of digital humanities InsideHigherEd / July 2018 • Spatial History Projects at Stanford operates within a privileged world of access to • Sophia B. Liu & Jen Ziemke, “From Cultures of • Soweto: Historical GIS Project impressive resources, while humanists in under- Participation to the Rise of Crisis Mapping in a • NYC Space/Time Directory at the NYPL resourced communities (both locally and globally) Networked World” in Aaron Delwiche & Jennifer • CityNature lack the wherewithal to participate in this mode of Henderson, eds. The Participatory Cultures • Ushahidi DH? To what extent does a focus on “big projects” Handbook (Routledge 2013) [canvas] impact how digital humanities is assumed to • Wikipedia, “Minimalism in computing” (as a operative normatively, by “the dh community” general concept in hardware and software design) itself and by outside entities (such as • Alex Gil, "The User, the Learner, and the Machines administrators at universities and museums, We Make" (2015) at Minimal Computing: A journalists, and IT experts)? Working Group of DH::GO and the subsequent Thought Pieces from 2015-2017 by various video break members • Soweto Historical GIS Project, “Social Justice • Alex Gil and Élika Ortega,“Global Outlooks in History Platform” (preview) / 2016 [4:05 min] Digital Humanities: Multilingual Practices and

Minimal Computing,” in Constance Crompton, Richard Lane, and Ray Siemens, eds. Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research (Routledge, 2016) [canvas] • David Theo Goldberg, “Deprovincializing Digital Humanities” in Patrick Svensson and David Theo Goldberg, eds., Between Humanities and the Digital (MIT Pr, 2015) • Lara Putnam, “The Transnational and the Text- Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast”

week 12: 11/8 Blog Post Due 11.7 Notebook entry due 11.8 week 12 discussion: The use of computational methods to identify networks potentially gives background reading for week 12 online practicum humanists a powerful form of research at scales • Scott Weingart, “Demystifying Networks: Part 1” & • Kindred Britain that are novel for them – although not for social “Networks Demystified 8: When Networks are • Six Degrees of Francis Bacon scientists who have been running the numbers from Inappropriate” • Linked Jazz massive datasets for many decades now. What do • Scott Weingart, “Topic Modeling for Humanists: a • The Republic of Letters humanists need to know about these methods to be Guided Tour / 2013 • Orbis able to assess what questions can be meaningfully • “Topic Modeling” at The Programming Historian • “Movie Galaxies”: Social Graphs in Movies entertained? In light of these kinds of • Ted Underwood, “Topic Modeling made just simple • Gephi investigations, could it be said that dh is really more enough” of a social science field than a humanities field? • Cytoscape • Miriam Posner, Cytoscape Tutorials (scroll down) or peripheral to it? Why or why not? / 2016

• Johanna Drucker, “Social Network Analysis” (2013)

• Franco Moretti, “Network Theory, Plot Analysis,” video break Literary Lab Pamphlet 2, 2011 • Elijah Meeks, “Networks in the Humanities” [2 minutes]

week 13: 11/15 background reading for week 13 online practicum week 13 discussion: When the web transformed • Melissa Terras, “Crowdsourcing in the Digital • Hurricane Digital Memory Bank from a “read only” space to a read/write space (or Humanities” in Susan Schriebman, Ray Siemens, • Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription perhaps more accurately, read/participate space), and Jon Unsworth, eds., A New Companion to Center the ability to harness the efforts of members of the Digital Humanities (John Wiley, 2016) • National Archives: Citizen Archivist public to enlarge, clean-up, and interact with big • Tim Causer and Valerie Wallace, “Building Missions datasets permitted the phenomenon known as a Volunteer Community: Results and • Zooniverse

“crowdsourcing” to emerge. Such projects became Findings from Transcribe Bentham,” dhq, • Emigrant City / NYPL prominent first in the sciences – often termed as 2012 • What’s On the Menu? / NYPL “citizen science” – but have extended to humanities • Brandon Walsh, Claire Maiers, Gwen • Transcribe Bentham research. What are the benefits and pitfalls of Nally and Jeremy Boggs, “Crowdsourcing crowdsourcing as a participatory activity for the individual interpretations: Between various stakeholders? What are the politics and microtasking and macrotasking,” Literary ethics of these activities? What do crowdsourcing and Linguistic Computing, 2014 dynamics have to tell us about the possible futures • Katherine Xue, “Popular Science,” Harvard of public humanities and academic humanities – Magazine, Jan/Feb 2014 both separately and together? • Nathan Schneider, “Intellectual Piecework,” Chronicle of Higher Education February 16, 2015 [canvas] video break • “Crowdsourcing to solve a protein-folding puzzle” / 2014 (PBS) [11:40 minutes]

week 14: 11/22 re-visiting starting points for end-of-semester No class: Thanksgiving Break reflections

• all: core text, Digital_Humanities (Chapter 4) “Provocations”

* grad students: Berry and Fagerjord, Digital Humanities, Chapters 5 and 8

week 15: 11/29 re-visiting starting points for end-of-semester reflections ▪ Final thoughts and students’ end-of-semester works-in-progress oral reports • danah boyd and Kate Crawford “Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technical, video break and Scholarly Phenomenon” in Information, ▪ “The Human Face of Big Data” / (2014 trailer for Communication and Society (2012) PBS documentary) [3:13 minutes] • Christine Borgman, “Provocations” (Chapter 1) in Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (MIT Pr, 2017) [canvas] • Amalia Levi, “Humanities ‘Big Data’: Myths, Challenges, and Lessons” / 2013 IEEE Int’l Conference on Big Data • Lev Manovich, “Trending: The Promises and Challenges of Big Social Data

Optional: end-of-the-semester multimodal artistic • interlude via 1941 to today – wander about and enjoy!

• Audio: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) / Read by James S. Davisson [20 minutes] • Text: “The Library of Babel” • Images: “The Library of Babel” • Website: “The Library of Babel” • Gameplay: “The Library of Babel” • Video: “The Library of Babel” • Online Fiction Magazine: Shaenon K. Garrity, “Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel”

week 16: 12/6 No class meeting – project consultations