Technology and Digital Humanities (2016)

The History, Present and Furture of Computation Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014) James Gleick, The Information: A Theory, a Flood (Toronto: Random House, 2011) Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The second machine age: Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014) Rob Kitchin, The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and their Consequences (London, Sage Publications, 2014)

Surveys of Digital Humanities (History of Field) Anderson, Ian. “History and Computing.” At Making History: The Changing Face of the Profession in Britain. On-line at: http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/history_and_computing.html Susan Hockey, “The History of Humanities Computing” in A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Available on-line: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ Kevin Kee and John Bonnett, “Transitions: A Prologue and Preview of Digital Humanities Research in Canada,” in Digital Studies 1(2). http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/167/222 Willard McCarty. Humanities Computing (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott Weingart, Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope (London: Imperial College Press, 2016) Cathy Davidson, “Humanities 2.0: Promise, perils, predictions,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, Ed. Matthew K. Gold. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012)

Methodology – Text Analysis Hugh Craig, “Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies,” in A Companion to Digital Studies, Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford, UK; Blackwell, 2004). David Holmes, “Authorship Attribution" in Computers and the Humanities, 28, 87-106. 1994. Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon and Anat Rachel Shimoni, "Automatically Categorizing Written Texts by Author Gender,” in Literary and Linguistic Computing 17(4): 401-412. Ted Underwood, “Genre, gender and point of view,” at The Stone and the Shell: Using Large Digital Libraries to Advance Literary History. Available on-line at: http://tedunderwood.com/2013/09/22/genre-gender-and-point-of-view/ Geoffrey Rockwell, “What is Text Analysis Really?” in Literary and Linguistic Computing 18(2): 209-219.

Methodology – Text Encoding Allen Renear, "Text Encoding" in A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Available on-line: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ Perry Willett, "Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes" in A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). Available on-line: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/

Methodology – Distant Reading Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2013) Jean-Baptiste Michel et al., “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books,” Science 331.176 (2011): 176-182.

Methodology – Topic Modelling David M. Blei, “Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities,” in Journal of Digital Humanities 2(1). Winter 2012. Megan R. Brett, “Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction,” in Journal of Digital Humanities 2(1). Winter 2012.

Methodology – Visualization Johanna Drucker, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014). Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, and Milena Radzikowska, “Information Visualization for Humanities Scholars,” in Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology Eds. Editors: Kenneth M. Price, Ray Siemens, Dene Grigar, Elizabeth M. Lorang (New York, NY: MLA Commons, 2013). Available on-line at: https://dlsanthology.commons.mla.org/information-visualization-for-humanities-scholars/

Methodology – Social Network Analysis Scott B. Weingart, "Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II" in Journal of Digital Humanities 1(1). (2011) Available on-line at: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1- 1/demystifying-networks-by-scott-weingart/ Stephen P. Borgatti, Ajay Mehra, Daniel J. Brass, Giuseppe Labianca, "Network Analysis in the Social Sciences" in Science 323 (13 February 2009): 892-895.

Methodology – Big Data Patrick Manning, Big data in history. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Matthew Jockers, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013). Jo Guldi and David Armitage, The History Manifesto (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014) [Chapter Four]. Lev Manovich, “Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, Ed. Matthew K. Gold. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012).

Methodology – GIS (Spatial Turn) Jo Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn?” at Spatial Humanities – A Project of the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship Available on-line: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/ Read: Jo Guldi, “What is the Spatial Turn?” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn in Anthropology” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn in Psychology” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn in Architecture” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn and Religion” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn in Literature” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn in Art History” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn in Sociology” Jo Guldi, “The Spatial Turn in History” Amy Hillier and Anne Kelly Knowles, Eds. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship, (Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2008). William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., “GIS for Language and Literary Study,” in Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology Eds. Editors: Kenneth M. Price, Ray Siemens, Dene Grigar, Elizabeth M. Lorang (New York, NY: MLA Commons, 2013). Available on-line at: https://dlsanthology.commons.mla.org/gis-for-language-and-literary-study/

Methodology – Agent-Based Modeling Joshua Epstein and Robert Axtell, Growing Artificial Societies (Washington DC: The Brookings Institutions, 1996). Shawn Graham, “Behavior Space: Simulating Roman Social Life and Violence.” In Digital Studies. 1(2). Available on-line at: http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/172/214 Stephen J. Lansing, “‘Artificial Societies’ and the Social Sciences.” In Artificial Life. 8:272-292. 2002. Fred Weinstein, “Psychohistory and the Crisis of the Social Sciences.” In History and Theory. 34 (December 1995): 299-319.

Methodology – 3D/Virtual Worlds/Computer Gaming Arne R. Flaten and Alyson A. Gill, "Digital Crossroads: New Directions in 3D Architectural Modeling in the Humanities," in Visual Resources 25(4): 309-312. John Bonnett, “A Plea for Design: Historians, Digital Platforms, and the Mindful Dissemination of Content and Concepts,” in Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. 25(2): 189-231. Bernard Frischer, "Introduction: From Digital Illustration to Digital Heuristics," in Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology, edited by Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, BAR International Series 1805 (Oxford) v-xxiv. Steven Feiner, “Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing.” In Scientific American. April 2002. Kate Fernie and Julian D. Richards, Eds. Creating and Using Virtual Reality: a Guide for the Arts and Humanities. [Read Sections 2, 3, and 4] Available on-line: http://www.vads.ac.uk/guides/vr_guide/ Jennifer von Schwerin, "The MayaArch3D project: A 3D WebGIS for analyzing ancient architecture and landscapes," in Literary and Linguistic Computing 28(4): 736-753.

Methodology – Role of Theory in the Digital Humanities Matthew K. Gold, Ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012). Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete,” in Wired. June 23, 2008. Available on-line at: http://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/

Digital Media Theory Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) Espen J. Aarseth, “Nonlinearity and Literary Theory" in The New Media Reader Eds. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003): 762– 780. Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001) Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999). Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006). Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010). Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011). Marie Laure Ryan, Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (Baltimore, MA: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas, Eds. New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (Lincoln and London, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2011).

Technology N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012). Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1951). Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1964). Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954). Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005). Martin Heidegger, The Question Concering Technology, and other Essays. Trans. William Lovitt (New York; Harper and Row, 1977). George Grant, Technology and Empire: Perspectives on North America. (House of Anansi Press, 1991). Pierre A. Lévy, The Semantic Sphere 1: Computation, Cognition and Information Economy (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2011). Walter Benjamin. (1936). “The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction,” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections Trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969). Steven Shaviro, The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2010.