Please select a digital humanities project from this list (click on the tabs to see projects from various subject areas), or this one or this one or one of the projects reviewed in this journal! Use the sources/processing/presentation framework we discussed in class to identify each layer of the project. Finally, write approximately one paragraph that meditates on the effect of all these choices. Instead of focusing on how much you like the project, try to focus on what the project conveys and the epistemological effects of the decisions the project team has made.
Turn your identification of layers and your short analysis in via this assignment in BruinLearn.
Further Reading
On the history and definition of digital humanities
Berry, David. “The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities.” Culture Machine 12, no. 0 (2011). http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/viewDownloadInterstitial/440/470.
Burdick, Anne, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp. Digital_Humanities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
Gold, Matthew K., ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Gold, Matthew K, and Lauren F Klein. Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Jones, Steven E. The Emergence of the Digital Humanities. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” ADE Bulletin 150 (2010): 55–61.
Posner, Miriam. “Digital Humanities.” In The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice, edited by Mary Celeste Kearney and Michael Kackman, 331–46. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2018. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315879970.
Schreibman, Susan, Raymond George Siemens, and John Unsworth. A New Companion to Digital Humanities, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118680605.
Siemens, Ray, John Unsworth, and Susan Schreibman. Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). Hardcover. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2004. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.
On Understanding and Tidying Datasets
Chiasson, Trina, and Dianna Gregory. Data + Design: A Simple Introduction to Preparing and Visualizing Information, 2014-2018. http://orm-atlas2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/13a07b19e01a397d8855c0463d52f454.pdf.
Sweigart, Al. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2016. https://automatetheboringstuff.com/.