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Digital Humanities Syllabus
fall 2012Week 1: 28 Aug
- introductions
- DigitalHumanitiesStatement2012 statement
- what are the DH?
- manifesto
- activities for next week
- MorgansNotesOnDH2012Week1
for week 2: 4 Sept
A world before the web- V. Bush, As We May Think, 1945. "The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it."
- Ted Nelson, Extracts from Computer Lib/Dream Machines, 1974.
- Douglas C. Engelbart: The Mother of all Demos, 1968. In clips. The complete 100 minute version is at the bottom of the page.
- Lanham, What's Next for Text?
- Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
- THATCamp Manifesto (The Timid Manifesto)
- Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, optional: The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction
Activities
Twitter Essay
- Sign up with twitter.
- Follow @mcmcorgan.
- Locate and follow others in this course. How? Send a tweet including #en4709. That will make us all findable. Search for their names. Search for #en4709. When you locate someone, view who they follow and who is following them.
- Compose a Twitter essay of exactly 140 characters using #en4709 enacting what a student of digital humanities does. Don't waste a character. (Borrowed nearly verbatim from Jesse Stommel at Hybrid Pedagogy)
Prepare for next meeting's discussion.
- Review, take notes on, consider the artifacts for this week, and add to the artifacts we looked at, with an eye towards cracking them open.
- Add to the artifacts: Tweet urls, references or examples using #en4709.
