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Readings marked (PDF) can be found in the library of our course group. The course schedule is subject to change.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 (in-person) – Introductions
Introductions to each other, to the course syllabus, site, and group
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 (in-person) – Approaching the Digital Humanities
Readings
- Gold, Matthew K. 2012. “The Digital Humanities Moment.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.
- Gold, Matthew K., and Lauren F. Klein. 2019. “A DH That Matters” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. 2018. “Introduction” In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. University of Minnesota Press.
- Josephs, Kelly Baker, and Roopika Risam. 2021. “The Digital Black Atlantic.” In The Digital Black Atlantic, edited by Kelly Baker Josephs and Roopika Risam. University of Minnesota Press.
- Fiormonte, D., Ricaurte, P., & Chaudhari, S. 2022. “Introduction.” Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press.
- Lisa Spiro. 2012. “This Is Why We Fight”: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.
Sites to explore
- Torn Apart / Separados
- The Early Caribbean Digital Archive
- Colored Conventions Project
- Browse Reviews in Digital Humanities
Assignment
Blog posts: How do you define DH and what do you understand it to be? To what extent do the sites/projects listed above reflect the issues discussed in our readings? Or, If you were to center an understanding about what DH is around one of these projects/sites, how would DH be defined (or redefined)?
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 (in-person) – Epistemologies of DH
Readings
- Ramsay, Stephen, and Geoffrey Rockwell. 2012. “Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.
- Drucker, Johanna. 2011. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5 (1).
- Gallon, Kim. 2016. “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren Klein. 2020. “Why Data Science Needs Feminism” In Data Feminism. The MIT Press.
- Brian Greenspan. 2016. “The Scandal of the Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Posner, Miriam. “How Did They Make That?” (video).
Sites to explore
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
- Humanities Commons
- Digital Humanities Quarterly
- Debates in the Digital Humanities
- CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative
- NYCDH
- GO:DH
- CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide
- DH Slack
- ACH Guide: Toward Anti-Racist Technical Terminology
Assignment
DH Project Analysis Due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 (online) – Mapping
Readings
- Monmonier, Mark. 1996. How to Lie with Maps. 2nd ed. The University of Chicago Press. (PDF)
- Ildefonso, Olivia. 2019. “Finding the Right Tools for Mapping.” GC Digital Fellows (blog). June 3, 2019.
- Bonilla, Yarimar, and Max Hantel. 2016. “Visualizing Sovereignty.” Sx Archipelagos, no. 1 (May).
- Nelson, Erica (2021). “Critical Cartography: The Subjectivity, Politics, and Power of Spatial Data.” (video).
Sites to explore
Assignment
PRAXIS Mapping assignment due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (online) – Data and Visualization
Readings
- Guiliano, Jennifer, and Carolyn Heitman. 2019. “Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data” Journal of Cultural Analytics 1 (1).
- Miriam Posner. 2015. “Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction.”
- D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren Klein. 2020. “On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Viewpoints and “What Gets Counted Counts” In Data Feminism. The MIT Press.
- Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz, “Against Cleaning” (2019). Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein.
- Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan, “Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives,” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein.
Sites to explore
- Responsible Datasets In Context
- On Missing Data Sets and website
- The Data-Sitter’s Club
- A Tale of Two Plantations
- The Shape of History
- Around DH in 80 days
- Data is beautiful: 10 of the best data visualization examples from history to today
- Miriam Posner’s list of data visualization tools
- NYU Libraries: Introduction to Digital Humanities – Data Visualization
- Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews
Assignment
PRAXIS Visualization assignment due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 No Class
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 (online) – History and the Archive
Readings
- Johnson, Jessica Marie. 2018. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text 36 (4): 57–79. (PDF)
- Maria Cotera. 2018. “Pan Dulce: Breaking Bread with the Past” (video)
- Christen, K., Anderson, J. Toward slow archives. Arch Sci 19, 87–116 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09307-x (PDF)
- Freelon, Deen, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark. 2016. Introduction to “Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice.” Center for Media and Social Impact. February 29, 2016.
- Rebekah Fitzsimmons and Susan Alteri. 2019. “Possibly Impossible; Or, Teaching Undergraduates to Confront Digital and Archival Research Methodologies, Social Media Networking, and Potential Failure” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 14 (January).
Sites to explore
- Chicana por mi Raza
- Mukurtu
- CUNY Digital History Archive
- Our Marathon
- Documenting the Now
- Omeka
- TK Knowledge Labels
- Dublin Core – Wikipedia Entry
- CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 (online) – Open Access Publishing/ Minimal Computing / Digital Scholarship
Readings
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. 2021. Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University. Johns Hopkins University Press. (PDF)
- Suber, Peter. 2012. “What Is Open Access?” In Open Access (1st ed.). MIT Press.
- Risam, Roopika and Gil, Alex. “Introduction: The Questions of Minimal Computing.” Digital Humanities Quarterly Vol 16.2 (2022).
- Michael, Krystyna, Jojo Karlin, and Matthew K. Gold, 2022. “Hybrid Scholarly Publishing Models in a Digital Age.” New Directions in Print Cultures Studies: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture. Bloomsbury Press. (PDF)
Sites to explore
- Ed
- Debates site (uses Manifold)
- sx salon/sx archipelagos
- Open Educational Resources on the CUNY Academic Commons
- Manifold installations: CUNY ; Minnesota; Brown; Arte Público Press; Gallaudet Universty Press; others
- PubPub
- Scalar
Assignment
Project topic due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 (online) – Text
Readings
- Mandel, Laura. 2019. “Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Klein, Lauren F. 2018. “Distant Reading after Moretti.” Panel Discussion: Varieties of Digital Humanities presented at the 2018 MLA Annual Convention.
- Lasura McGrath, “Comping White.” L.A. Review of Books. January 21, 2019.
- So, Richard Jean and Edwin Roland. 2020. “Race and Distant Reading.” PMLA 135.1: 59–73. (PDF)
- Stephen Ramsay, “Humane Computation” (2016) Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
Sites to explore
- The Data Sitters Club
- Amanda Henrichs, “Allusions in the Age of the Digital: four ways of looking at a corpus“
Assignment
PRAXIS text mining assignment due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 (in-person) – Social Media and Scholarship
Readings
- Walsh, Melanie (2023). “The Challenges and Possibilities of Social Media Data: New Directions in Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Deuze, Mark, Peter Plank, and Laura Speers. 2012. “A Life Lived in Media.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 6 (1).
- Parham, Marisa. 2019. “Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and Black Digitality” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Chatelain, Marcia. 2018. “Is Twitter Any Place for a [Black Academic] Lady?” In Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, edited by Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. University of Minnesota Press.
- McNulty, Tess, 2023. “What’s on Top of TikTok?” Public Books.
Sites to explore
- Digital Humanities: Analyzing Social Media
- Tweets from Runaway Slaves
- Black Digital Humanities Projects and Resources
- QRator
Assignment
Final project abstract due (view assignment description on syllabus).
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 (online) – Pedagogy
Readings
- Croxall, Brian and Diane K. Jakacki (2023). “What We Teach When We Teach DH.” In What We Teach When Teach DH: Digital Humanities in The Classroom, edited by Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki. University of Minnesota Press.
- Cordell, Ryan. 2016. “How Not to Teach Digital Humanities” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Risam, Roopika. 2019. “Postcolonial Digital Pedagogy.” In New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, 89–114. Northwestern University Press. (PDF)
- DeRosa, Robin. “Webinar: Open Pedagogy, Social Justice, and the Practical Path to Commons-Oriented Learning.” (video)
- Schacht, Paul, curator. “Annotation.” Frost Davis, Rebecca; Gold, Matthew K.; Harris, Kathleen; Sayers, Jentery, Eds. 2020. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. Modern Language Association. (also explore 4-5 other keywords)
- Kalir, J. H., & Dean, J. (2019). “Web Annotation as Conversation and Interruption” Media Practice and Education, 19(1).
Sites to explore:
- Digital Memory Project Reviews
- Reading Groups on CUNY’s Manifold instance
- Hypothes.is for education
- online DH syllabi (browse the Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Humanities Commons, and the Open Syllabus Project)
Assignment
Connected Pedagogy Assignment Due (view assignment description on syllabus)
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 (online) – Grant Writing Workshop
Readings
- Breenan, Sheila. 2016. “Public, First.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
- Brennan, Sheila. 2020. “Planning your next DHAG: Idea, Audience, Innovation, Context.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 17 September 2020.
- Alpert-Abrams, Hannah. 2020. “Planning Your Next DHAG 2: Activities, People, & Costs for Doing the Work.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 17 September 2018.
- Serventi, Jennifer. 2019. “Planning 3: Managing and Sustaining the Project Assets.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 4 November 2019.
- Brennan, Sheila. 2018. “Do your Research! Preparing a Strong Environmental Scan.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 15 November 2018.
- Alpert-Abrams, Hannah. 2020. “Planning your DH Institute: What and Why.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 13 January 2020.
- Alpert-Abrams, Hannah. 2020. “Planning your DH Institute: Who and How.” National Endowment for the Humanities. 13 January 2020.
- Division of Preservation and Access Staff. “Tips on Applying for a Preservation & Access Award.” 2020. National Endowment for the Humanities. 14 April 2020.
- Digital Humanities Research Institute Project Lab
- Model student proposals (PDF)
- TO COMPLETE IN CLASS: Project Lab
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 (online) — AI/Algorithmic Knowledge
- James Bridle, “Inside the infinite imagination of a computer”
- Kate Crawford, “Data” chapter from The Atlas of AI (PDF)
- Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Prepare for the Textpocalypse.” (PDF)
- Lauren Klein – Data Feminism and AI presentation (from 26 min on)
