| SCHEDULE | TOPICS | READ | DUE |
| WEEK 1
Tuesday, August 28 |
Introductions
Defining the Field |
What is Digital Humanities?
Digital Humanities Projects and Skills Stephen Ramsay. “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books.” Pastplay. 2014. |
Technology Survey
Register with CUNY Academic Commons (“about me” due before September 3) |
| WEEK 2
Tuesday, September 4 |
Print Culture and Pre-Digital Technologies
Intro to Project 1 |
Stephen Fry, The Machine that Made Us (watch all 5 parts!)
Compare the paper and vellum versions of the Gutenberg Bible [in class] Elizabeth Eisenstein, “Some Features of Print Culture” from The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe |
Forum #1
Follow Voyant (1) tutorials (2) (3) and complete test runs as preparation for P1 Sign up for DHPR |
| WEEK 3
Tuesday, September 11 |
No classes: College Closed | No classes: College Closed | No classes: College Closed |
| WEEK 4
Tuesday, September 18 |
No classes: College Closed | No classes: College Closed | No classes: College Closed |
| WEEK 5
Tuesday, September 25 |
Visualizing Literature
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Whitney, selected poems
Distant-Reading and Cultural Analytics |
Forum #2 |
| WEEK 6
Tuesday, October 2 |
Concrete and Virtual Worlds | Whitney, cont.
Watch The Beauty of Data Visualization and look through http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ DH101, “Visualization” and ToolingUP, Visualization Spatial History |
Project 1 draft due before midnight (+New=>post; use “Project 1 Drafts” category)
Forum #3 Presenter: |
| WEEK 7
Tuesday, October 9 |
Maps, Graphs, Trees
Intro to Project 2 |
Queering the Map
Digital Harlem Torn Apart/Separados Starting a Geographical Data Project and the resulting page Google Maps Overview |
Project 1 final draft due before midnight (+New=>post; use “Project 1” category)
Read instructions for Project 2, comment with any questions Forum #4 Presenters: |
| WEEK 8
Tuesday, October 16 |
Hacking, Remixing, Building
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “The Humanities, Done Digitally.”Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, “What Gets Counted Counts”
Doug Belshaw, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies Re-read Whitney’s Last Will and Testament |
Forum #5
Presenters: |
| WEEK 9
Tuesday, October 23 |
Digital Communities | Amy Earheart, “Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon”
“Toward Digital, Critical, Participatory Action Research: Lessons from the #BarrioEdProj” Browse University of Sydney, Digital Harlem then read Joshua Sternfeld, “Harlem Crime, Soapbox Speeches, and Beauty Parlors: Digital Historical Context and the Challenge of Preserving Source Integrity” |
Forum #6 |
| WEEK 10
Tuesday, October 30 |
Presentations
Intro to Project 3 |
Project 2 Presentations | Forum #7
Whitney Reflections Due |
| WEEK 11
Tuesday, November 6 |
Coding and Encoding | Maha Bali, “Where is the Humanity in the Computer Science Curriculum?”
Alexis C. Madrigal, “How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood.” Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression, Introduction |
Forum #8
Presenters: |
| WEEK 12
Tuesday, November 13 |
Conferences |
Conferences
Schedule to meet |
Project 3 Proposals
Google Doc for meetings |
| WEEK 13
Tuesday, November 20 |
Picking Our Platform | Discussion and tutorial of StoryMaps
“What is Techno-Chauvinism and Are We Relying Too Much on Unconscious Biased Systems?” with Meredith Broussard, Getting Curious #123 |
Place Holders and Thoughts
Presenters: |
| WEEK 14
Tuesday, November 27 |
Visual Design | Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “‘So the Colors Cover the Wires’: Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability,” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, 523–42.
Jesse James Garrett, Elements of User Experience |
Forum #9
Consider attending the CUNY IT conference Presenters:
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| WEEK 15
Tuesday, December 4 |
Online Day | Bethanie Nowviskie, On The Origin of Hack and Yack, Journal of Digital Humanities 3.2
Moya Bailey, All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave, Journal of Digital Humanities 1.1 Mark Sample. “The Digital Humanities is Not About Building, It’s About Sharing.” SampleReality.com. 25 May 2011. |
Forum #10
Project 3 First Drafts Presenters: |
| WEEK 16
Tuesday, December 11 |
Peer Review (Digital) | Peer Review (Digital) | Peer Review |
| WEEK 17
Tuesday, December 18 |
Did we DH? | Presentations
(final exam due to class) |
In-Class Presentations
Final Exam due |
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