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Readings are either hyperlinked below or can be found in our class’s CCLE site, filed under the appropriate week. Lecture slides and notes will be posted here<\/a> as they become available, but please note that they’re not an adequate substitute for what we do in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Date<\/th>Topic<\/th>Reading 1<\/th>Reading 2<\/th>Reading 3<\/th>Framing Questions<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Monday, September 26<\/td>Introduction<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>What's this class about? How much work is required? Who should take this class?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, September 28<\/td>The Humanities & the Digital Humanities<\/td>Burdick et al. \"One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities.\" In Digital_Humanities<\/cite>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012..<\/td>McPherson, Tara. \"Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities.\" Cinema Journal<\/cite> 48, no. 2 (2008).<\/td>Robots Reading Vogue<\/a>, The Garden of Earthly Delights<\/a>, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon<\/a>, The Green Book Map<\/a><\/td>What are \"the humanities\"? What are the digital humanities? What's a DH project?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, September 30<\/td>Project Critiques<\/td>To do in lab: technical self-assessment.<\/td><\/td><\/td>How does one interpret, understand, and critique a DH project?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 3<\/td>\"Data\" and the Question of History<\/td>White, Hayden. \u201cThe Narrativization of Real Events.\u201d Critical Inquiry<\/cite> 7, no. 4 (July 1, 1981): 793\u201398.<\/td>\"Roger Ekirch on Segmented Sleep,\" Backstory Radio<\/a><\/td>Images from Cartographies of Time<\/cite><\/a><\/td>What constitutes a fact? From all the infinite events in human history, how do we select those worth recording? How much stuff have we just forgotten?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 5<\/td>Power and the Archive. Prof. Michelle Caswell, Guest Lecturer.<\/td>Caswell, Michelle. \u201cSeeing Yourself in History: Community Archives and the Fight Against Symbolic Annihilation.\u201d The Public Historian<\/cite> 36, no. 4 (November 1, 2014): 26\u201337.<\/td>Noriega, Chon A. \u201cPreservation Matters.\u201d Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies<\/cite> 30, no. 1 (March 22, 2005): 1.<\/td>The South Asian American Digital Archive<\/a><\/td>When we're assembling an archive (or dataset), how do we decide what to include? Can an archivist be neutral? Should she be? <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 7<\/td>Project Management, Forming Groups<\/td>To do in lab: Receive group assignments. Submit top choices for research topics.<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 10<\/td>The Humanities Research Question. Renee Romero and Joanna Chen Cham, Guest Lecturers. Notes from this class.<\/a><\/td>Information Literacy Lynda video, chapters two, three, and four. I can't link directly to the video; instead, click on Lynda at this link<\/a>, log in, and then search for \"Information Literacy.\"<\/td>C. P Snow, \u201cThe Two Cultures,\u201d in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution<\/cite>, 1959, 1\u201322.<\/td>4Humanities<\/a><\/td>How do you develop a good humanities research question? What's the difference between a humanities research question and a research question from another discipline? Where do I start?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 12<\/td>Categorization: How the World Becomes Data. Claudia Horning, Guest Lecturer.<\/td>National Information Standards Organization, \u201cWhat is Metadata?\u201d (Bethesda, MD: NISO Press, 2004).<\/a><\/td>\"Case Study: Basic Metadata,\" Stanford University Library, n.d.<\/a><\/td>Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group<\/a><\/td>What is \"metadata\"? How do you organize objects so that you can easily find them (and use them for computation)? What standards have people developed for doing this?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 14<\/td>Cleaning and Refining Data with OpenRefine<\/a><\/td>To do in lab: Receive topic assignments and datasets.<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 17<\/td>Complicating Categorization<\/td>Wallack, Jessica Seddon, and Ramesh Srinivasan. \"Local-Global: Reconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems.\" 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009.<\/a><\/td>Duarte, Marisa Elena, and Miranda Belarde-Lewis. \u201cImagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies.\u201d Cataloging & Classification Quarterly<\/cite> 53, no. 5\u20136 (July 4, 2015): 677\u2013702.<\/td>TLAM Project<\/a><\/td>How do we organize and categorize objects that come from other knowledge systems? What kind of power do we wield when we name and categorize things?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 19<\/td>Intro to Data Visualization<\/td>Yau, Nathan. Data Points: Visualization That Means Something. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013, chapter three.<\/td>Look through Data + Design: A Simple Introduction to Preparing and Visualizing Information<\/cite>.<\/a><\/td><\/td>Why do people visualize data? What are some ways you can make your visualizations legible and accurate?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 21<\/td>Data Visualization Tools and Techniques<\/td>Due by 11:55 pm: Five preliminary research questions + project charter<\/a>.<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 24<\/td>Complicating Data Visualization<\/td>Johanna Drucker, \u201cHumanities Approaches to Graphical Display,\u201d Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011).<\/a><\/td>Lauren Klein and Catherine D'Ignazio, \"Feminist Data Visualization,\" Proceedings of the Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, IEEE 2016, Baltimore.<\/a><\/td>Poemage<\/a>, US Gun Deaths<\/a>, Hearing Eugenics<\/a>.<\/td>What are some problems, for the humanist, of data visualization? What experimental data visualization methods are emerging?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, October 26<\/td>Intro to Web Design<\/td>Sue Jenkins, Design Aesthetics for Web Design (Lynda video), chapters one through three.<\/a> Note: I can't link directly to the video. You'll have to search for it at the Lynda site.<\/cite><\/td><\/td><\/td>How does a webpage get on the web? What's HTML and how do you write it?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, October 28<\/td>Content-Management Systems<\/td>Due by 11:55 pm: Data critique.<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, October 31<\/td>Complicating Web Design<\/strike> We're going to use this class as a makeup for Mon., Oct. 24.<\/td>Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell, \u201cChapter Three: Humanistic HCI and Methods,\u201d in Humanistic HCI<\/cite>, Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics (Williston, VT: Morgan and Claypool, 2015), 33\u201363.<\/strike> Review reading from Oct. 24.<\/td>The Knotted Line<\/a><\/strike> Review reading from Oct. 24.<\/td>Hayles, Katherine. \u201cNarrating Bits: Encounters between Humans and Intelligent Machines.\u201d Vectors<\/cite> 1 (Winter 2005).<\/a> (Be sure to click on \"Launch Project.\")<\/strike> Review reading from Oct. 24.
\n<\/td>		What assumptions are embedded in conventional principles of \"good design\"? How are people experimenting with other forms of interaction?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 2<\/td>Intro to Web Mapping. Albert Kochaphum, Guest Lecturer.<\/td>Alan McConchie and Beth Schechter, \"Anatomy of a Web Map.\"<\/a> (Give it a minute to load and click on each slide to advance.)<\/td>Jim Detwiler, \"Introduction to Web Mapping\"<\/a><\/td>Africa Map<\/a>, Million Dollar Hoods<\/a>, Mapping Indigenous L.A.<\/a><\/td>How does data get onto a map?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 4<\/td>Mapping Tools<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 7<\/td>Complicating Mapping<\/td>Turnbull, David. Maps Are Territories: Science Is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibits. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.<\/a> Read Exhibts 1-6 and 10.
\n<\/td>		<\/td><\/td>What power relations are embedded in the act of mapping?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 9<\/td>Network Analysis for the Humanities<\/td>Scott Weingart, \u201cDemystifying Networks, Parts I & II,\u201d Journal of Digital Humanities<\/cite> 1:1 (Winter 2011).<\/a><\/td>Elijah Meeks and Maya Krishnan, \"Introduction to Network Analysis and Representation\"<\/a><\/td>Star Wars Social Networks<\/a>, They Rule<\/a><\/td>What are some ways to show connections between people and things?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 11<\/td>Network Analysis Tools and Techniques<\/td>Due by 11:55 pm: Annotated Bibliography<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 14<\/td>Data Journalism. Guest Lecturer: Christine Zhang<\/a>.<\/td>\"What the Fox Knows,\" by Nate Silver<\/a><\/td>\"Shining light on explanatory journalism\u2019s impact on media, democracy, and society,\" by John Hudak<\/a><\/td>\"What This Means, How This Happens, What to Do Now,\" by Nathan Robinson<\/a><\/td>How is digital technology changing journalism? What does a data journalist do?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 16<\/td>Other Kinds of Data<\/td>Becky Williams, \"Intro to Databases (for People Who Don't Know A Lot about Them),\" Medium<\/cite><\/cite><\/td>Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database<\/a>, Linked Jazz<\/a><\/td><\/td>Beyond spreadsheets, what other types of data formats are out there? Why would someone choose one over the other?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 18<\/td>Midterm<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 21<\/td>Project Work and Troubleshooting<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 23<\/td>No Class<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, November 25<\/td>No Class<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, November 28<\/td>A Little Coding<\/td>Paul Ford, \"What is Code?\", Bloomberg<\/cite>, June 11, 2015<\/a><\/td><\/td><\/td>What exactly do people mean when they talk about \"coding\"? How might someone get started?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 30<\/td>Virtual Reality. Francesca Albrezzi, Guest Lecturer.<\/td>Will virtual and augmented reality move us into the knowledge age?<\/a><\/td>Toward a Definition of \u201cVirtual Worlds\u201d by Mark W. Bell<\/a><\/td>Walc<\/a><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, December 2<\/td>Final Exam<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, December 5, 3pm-6pm<\/td>Final Presentations<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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