Readings which are openly available are linked from this page. All other readings are on CCLE, under the appropriate week. Further reading isn’t exhaustive; it’s usually stuff I wanted to put on the syllabus but couldn’t find room for.
CLASS 1 | JANUARY 9
Slides. See also this video for a walkthrough of reverse-engineering a DH project.
Introductions
What is digital humanities?
CLASS 2 | JANUARY 16
What is digital humanities? (part 2)
Discussion leaders: Julia, Matthew G., Kai-Ting
- Hockey, Susan. “The History of Humanities Computing.” In Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, and Susan Schreibman. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2004. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.
- Terras, Melissa, and Julianne Nyhan. “Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein, 2016 edition. Ann Arbor, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/57.
Data cleaning & manipulation (part 1)
- Gregory, Ben. “Data Formats 101.” Astronomer, n.d. https://www.astronomer.io/blog/data-formats-101.
- Groskopf, Christopher. “The Quartz Guide to Bad Data.” Quartz.
Projects to examine
CLASS 3 | JANUARY 23
Data cleaning & manipulation (part 2)
Discussion leaders: Jeremy, Dylan, Isaac, Joyce
- Rawson, Katie, and Trevor Muñoz. “Against Cleaning,” July 6, 2016. http://www.curatingmenus.org/articles/against-cleaning/.
- Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text 36, no. 4 (137) (December 1, 2018): 57–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658.
- Duarte, Marisa Elena, and Miranda Belarde-Lewis. “Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53, no. 5–6 (July 4, 2015): 677–702.
Data visualization (part 1)
- Cairo, Alberto. The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization. Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2013. Chapters six and eight.
- Niles, Robert. “Statistics Help for Journalists.” Robert Niles, n.d. https://www.robertniles.com/stats/. (You might look specifically at “Per capita and Rates” and “Standard Deviation and Normal Distribution.”)
Projects to examine
CLASS 4 | JANUARY 30
Data visualization (part 2)
Discussion leaders: Dandi, Raymond, Ruth
- Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011).
- Introduction and chapter two: Klein, Lauren, and Catherine D’Ignazio. Data Feminism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2018.
Text analysis (part 1)
- Ted Underwood. “Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text.” The Stone and the Shell (blog), June 4, 2015. https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/.
- Clement, Tanya E. “‘A Thing Not Beginning and Not Ending’: Using Digital Tools to Distant-Read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 23, no. 3 (September 1, 2008): 361–81.
Projects to examine
CLASS 5 | FEBRUARY 6
Text analysis (part 2)
Discussion leaders: Anna, Isabelle, Kwanda
- Binder, Jeffrey M. “Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, and the Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein, 2016 edition. Ann Arbor, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/69.
- Schmidt, Benjamin M. “Words Alone: Dismantling Topic Models in the Humanities.” Journal of Digital Humanities, April 5, 2013. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/words-alone-by-benjamin-m-schmidt/.
- McPherson, Tara. “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K Gold, 139–60. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2012. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/part/4
Web design (part 1)
- Williamson, James. Web Development Basics: Web Fundamentals. On Lynda.com; you will need a Los Angeles Public Library card to access these videos. To log in to Lynda with your LAPL card, go here.
- de Ridder, Lennart. “10 Innovative Web Design Trends for 2019.” 99designs, December 12, 2018. https://99designs.com/blog/trends/web-design-trends-2019/.
Projects to examine
- Journal of Cultural Analytics (just skim, obviously)
- Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (ditto)
- Creating Data: A Guided Tour of the Digital Library
CLASS 6 | FEBRUARY 13
Web design (part 2)
Discussion leaders: Letty, Ashton
- Burdick, Anne. “Meta!Meta!Meta!: A Speculative Design Brief for the Digital Humanities.” Visible Language 49, no. 3 (December 1, 2015): 13.
Web mapping (part 1)
Slides (mapping terms to know)
- Sack, C. (2017). Web Mapping. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (4th Quarter 2017 Edition), John P. Wilson (ed.). DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2017.4.11.
- McConchie, Alan, and Beth Schechter. “Anatomy of a Web Map.” http://maptime.io/anatomy-of-a-web-map/#0. (Please give this a moment to load and then click each slide to advance.)
Projects to examine
CLASS 7 | FEBRUARY 20
Web mapping (part 2)
Discussion leaders: Matthew S., Keith
- Turnbull, David. Maps Are Territories: Science Is an Atlas: A Portfolio of Exhibits. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Read Exhibits 1-6 and 10.
- Battersby, Sarah E., Michael P. Finn, E. Lynn Usery, and Kristina H. Yamamoto. “Implications of Web Mercator and Its Use in Online Mapping.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 49, no. 2 (2014): 85–101.
Network analysis (part 1)
Projects to examine
CLASS 8 | FEBRUARY 27
Discussion leaders: Lawrence, Nick
Network analysis (part 2)
- Zer-Aviv, Mushon. “If Everything Is a Network, Nothing Is a Network.” Visualizing Information for Advocacy, January 8, 2016. http://visualisingadvocacy.org/blog/if-everything-network-nothing-network.
- Galloway, Alexander. “Networks.” In Critical Terms for Media Studies, edited by W. J. T Mitchell and Mark B. N Hansen, 280–96. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2010.
Intro to machine learning
Julia Angwin et al.,“Machine Bias,”ProPublica, May 23, 2016.
For this half of class, we will join Shawn VanCour’s Media Archiving class in GSEIS 110.
CLASS 9 | MARCH 6
Open worktime
Presentations
CLASS 10 | MARCH 13
Presentations