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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.
Week 3: Sept 11
Follow up activity for week 2: Refer to Lanham, What's Next for Text
Combine word and image in such a way that they become bi-stable. Distribute your artifact in some way: Print out and bring in, post on twitter, post to your blog and link and tweet the link...And so we have two kinds of “seriousness.” In alphabetic seriousness, we concentrate on looking through the notational system to the abstract reasoning beneath it. We build a monopolistic attention economy. In pattern-poetry seriousness, we accept a bi-stable seriousness which allows us to toggle from word to image, from at to through and back again. Digital expression, the familiar computer screen, creates, and assumes, a bi-stable seriousness. Perhaps that is why it often seems, to all of us print-readers, distinctly unsettling. Lanham, Two Kinds
Example: Print books as dead trees
