Class 1: M 1/13
Topics: Defining Digital History & Becoming Digital Public Historians
OHP: Project intro, needs assessment & scoping
Tools: Hypothesis
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Defining Digital History
READ Amanda Visconti, "A Digital Humanities What, Why, & How" (39 mins)
READ Rebecca Onion, "Snapshots of History" (12 mins)
REFLECT 1) How would you define digital history? What does it and does it not include? 2) What is digital public history? How does it overlap with (and not overlap with) digital history?
**Note: I've included these reflection questions to help you prepare for classes. You might jot some notes for yourself to prepare, but you'll not need to submit anything to me.**
Branding and Becoming a Digital Public Historian
READ Dan Cohen, "Professors Start Your Blogs" (9 mins)
READ Prof Hacker, "Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics" (8 mins) Note: this is a bit dated
READ Jeff Bullas, "The 10 Pillars to Creating a Personal Brand in a Digital World" (8 mins)
REFLECT 1) With these readings, brainstorm three concepts that you would define as part of your brand. 2) Brainstorm three goals as digital public historians (brand building, refining your internet presence, or building a presence of a certain kind)
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FURTHER RESOURCES
- Dan Cohen & Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History
Douglas Seefeldt and William G. Thomas, "What is Digital History?"
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DO Hypothesis Setup: Getting Started | Tips for Students | Annotating in a Group
DO Hypothesis Tutorial
HYPOTHESIS: Post at least 10 substantive comments with Hypothesis (40 words min.) on these assigned readings, spread throughout the readings. Be sure to post into the HS7310 Hypothes.is group. Due by 6PM before Mon class. |
Class 2: W 1/15
Topics: Defining Digital History & Evaluating Digital History; Evaluation Rubric & DH Review Guidelines (JAH)
OHP: Needs assessment, scoping, & review existing dataset
Tools: Wordpress
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What is Digital History and What does it Contribute to the Field of History?
READ Stephen Robertson and Lincoln Mullen, et al, "Digital History and Argument" - click on white paper link to read (50 mins)
READ Tom Scheinfeldt, "Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?" (4 mins)
READ "Creative and Critical Precepts for Digital Humanities Projects" - Click on the four sub-categories in the left column: 1) Access, 2) Material Conditions, 3) Method, and 4) Ontologies and Epistemologies (8 mins)
READ Lisa Spiro, "'This is Why We Fight': Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities" (35 mins)
REFLECT 1) Continue to refine your definition of digital history - what is it? what does it include (or not include)? 2) What is the relationship between digital history and the larger historical field? How are they distinct? How do they contribute to the other? 3) What is the function of digital history? What does it do?
Who Makes Digital History?
READ Sharon Leon, "Complicating a “Great Man” Narrative of Digital History in the United States" (38 mins)
REFLECT 1) Why is this field so male-dominated? 2) How can we move toward equity in this field?
Getting Acquainted with DH
READ Miriam Posner, "How Did They Make That" -- Skim: the goal is to understand broadly how DH projects are made.
DH Project "All the World’s Immigration Visualized in 1 Map"
DH Project "Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820"
DH Project Andrew Kahn and Jamelle Bouie, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes"
REFLECT 1.) What are two personal goals you have in the class to get more engaged in DH? 2). Analyze these DH maps -- what do they show? what information do they convey in the visualization and the text that accompanies them? what's their purpose?
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FURTHER RESOURCES
- DH Project "Nuevas Raices / New Roots: Voices from Carolina del Norte!" + Digital Review: from SSRC Project Lens
- DH Project "SNCC Digital Gateway"
- SSRC, "Digital History Categories and Projects"
- Dan Cohen, “Is Google Good for History”
- Carl Smith, “Can You Do Serious History on the Web?”
- Sherman Dorn, "Is (Digital) History More Than an Argument about the Past?"
- Stephen Robertson, “The Differences Between Digital Humanities and Digital History”
- Lisa Spiro, "Getting Started in the Digital Humanities"
- The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Sharon M. Leon
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HYPOTHESIS
WATCH WordPress Tutorial
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Class 3: M 1/20 NO CLASS
Topics: Podcasting
Tools: Audacity
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Podcasting
READ Hannah Hethmon, Your Museum Needs a Podcast: A Step-By-Step Guide to Podcasting on a Budget for Museums, History Organizations, and Cultural Nonprofits (2018). You can reach out to Hannah on twitter with any questions at @hannah_rfh
REFLECT What steps would you follow to make a podcast? What are important things to consider when planning and implementing a podcast?
DO Listen to a podcast, map out the organization of it (List time ranges + the structure of the podcast. E.g. 0:00-1:00 opening soundbite; 1:00-1:30 opening music; 1:30-2:00 Welcome)
DOWNLOAD Download Audacity. Add a segment of one of your oral histories and practicing editing it.
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FURTHER RESOURCES
- Abby Mullen, Resources for Podcasting in class
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Class 4: W 1/22
Topics: How to Use the Web & Designing Digital Projects
OHP: Discuss existing dataset
Skills: Project Management
History Pin, a website for crowdsourced history
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Defining the Web and How We Can/Should Use It
WATCH "The Machine is Us/ing Us" (5 mins)
READ Adrianne Russell and Aleia Brown, "Museums & #BlackLivesMatter" (9 mins)
REFLECT What is the web and what is our relationship to it? How can we use it as public historians? Are there ethical considerations in how we can or how we should use it?
Transformative Possibilities of Digital Humanities
READ Alexis Lothian and Amanda Phillips, "Can Digital Humanities Mean Transformative Critique?" (25 mins)
READ Lorena Gauthereau, "Decolonizing the Digital Humanities" (6 mins)
REFLECT What problems face digital humanists? In what ways do the digital humanities have the potential for overturning colonialism, white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and other problems faced by our society? Should digital humanities be employed to counter these things?
Planning Digital History Projects
READ Trevor Owens, "Where to Start?: On Research Questions in the Digital Humanities" (7 mins)
READ SSRC, "Project Planning" (7 mins)
READ SSRC, "Picking a Platform for a Digital Project"(5 mins - skim)
READ PM4DH, "Defining a Project's Scope (2 mins)
READ "Building Histories of the National Mall: A Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project" (55 mins) - digital project in link below
DH PROJECT "Histories of the National Mall"
READ Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, “Done: Finishing Projects in the Digital Humanities” (4 mins)
REFLECT What key factors should we consider when planning a new digital project? What components do these types of projects typically include? What can we learn from the National Mall walk-through of their project? How do we know when a project is done? How do we ENSURE it gets done? Are digital projects ever done?
Digital History Projects
DH PROJECT "Monroe Work Today" - commentary on project in link below
READ Katherine Hepworth and Christopher Church, "Racism in the Machine: Visualization Ethics in Digital Humanities Projects" (38 mins)
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FURTHER RESOURCES
- DH PROJECT "Lynching in America"
- DH PROJECT "Torn Apart/Separados"
- Jim Casey, "Recipes for Developing Public Digital Projects" - excellent resource; final pages has a list of digital projects
- Simon Appleford and Jennifer Guiliano, “Building Your First Work Plan”
- Susan Brown, et al., "Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research"
- Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Luenfeld, Todd Presner, & Jeffrey Schnapp, "Short Guide to the Digital Humanities Fundamentals"
- Simon Appleford and Jennifer Guiliano, “Best Practice Principles Of Designing Your First Project”
- "PM4DH: Project Management for the Digital Humanities"
- Michael Edson, "Dark Matter: The dark matter of the Internet is open, social, peer-to-peer and read/write—and it’s the future of museums"
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Analysis of OHP dataset
HYPOTHESIS
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Class 5: M 1/27
Topics: Data & Metadata
OHP: Tech evaluation and community engagement plan
Tools: Dublin Core; Zotero
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Data & Historical Research
READ Trevor Owens, "Defining Data for Humanists: Text, Artifact, Information or Evidence?" (6 mins)
READ Frederick W. Gibbs and Trevor J. Owens, "The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing" (21 mins)
READ Thomas Padilla, "Engaging Absence" (4 mins)
READ Robert Kosara, "Spreadsheet Thinking vs. Database Thinking" (5 mins)
READ Frederick W. Gibbs, "New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations" (14 mins)
REFLECT How can concepts of data be useful in historical work? How can data help us tell stories and craft historical narratives? What other uses might data have?
Metadata and Collections
READ Jessica Serrao, "The Value of Metadata in Digital Collections Projects" (6 mins)
READ Alexis C. Madrigal, "How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood" (25 mins)
REFLECT What is metadata? Why is it important? What factors should we consider as we conceptualize and create digital projects?
Digital History Projects & Data
DH PROJECT "Renewing Inequality"
DH PROJECT "Mapping Inequality"
READ Jason Heppler, "Renewing Inequality and Mapping Inequality" (PDF on canvas; 10 mins)
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FURTHER RESOURCES
- Seth Denbo, "Data Storytelling and Historical Knowledge"
- Michael J Kramer, "Digital History as Data Transliteration" (response to Seth Denbo)
- SSRC, "Thinking about Data"
- DH PROJECT "Placing Segregation"
- DH PROJECT "Million Dollar Hoods"
- DH PROJECT Jacqueline Wernimont, et al, "Performing Archive"
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Digital Review 1
HYPOTHESIS
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Class 6: W 1/29
Topics: Digital Archives
Tools: Omeka
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Defining Archives & Digital Archives
READ Trevor Owens, "What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers" (11 mins)
READ Kate Theimer, "Archives in Context and As Context" (15 mins)
READ Archives@PAMA, “Why don’t archivists digitize everything?” (13 mins)
REFLECT What is an archive vs. a digital archive? How are digital sources different from print sources? What factors do we need to consider in developing digital archives? How do we contextualize digital sources and digitized sources? How do we decide what to digitize?
Preserving Marginalized Voices via Digital Archives
WATCH "Whilst You Archive Me" (3 mins)
READ Magdalena Zaborowska, "Black Matters of Value: Archiving James Baldwin's House as a Virtual Writer's Museum" (PDF on Canvas; 41 mins)
READ Tim Sherratt, "It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People" (14 mins)
READ Decolonizing the Archive (Wieck waiting for PDF from ILL)
READ Lorena Gauthereau, "Post-Custodial Archives and Minority Collections" (5 mins)
READ Bergis Jules, "Preserving Social Media Records of Activism" (9 mins)
DH PROJECT O Say Can You See: Washington D.C., Law & Family
DH PROJECT Voces Oral History Project
REFLECT How do we integrate and protect marginalized voices in the archive? How do we tackle born digital materials? Can we / should we preserve social media in archival spaces?
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FURTHER RESOURCES
- DH PROJECT Matthew Delmont, "Black Quotidian"
- DH PROJECT "Bracero History Archive"
- DH PROJECT "Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project"
- DH PROJECT "Plateau Peoples' Web Portal"
- DH PROJECT Northeastern University, "Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive"
- DH PROJECT "Wearing Gay History"
- DH PROJECT "Harlem Education History Project"
- DH PROJECT "The September 11 Digital Archive"
- DH PROJECT Google Arts & Culture, "Latino Cultures in the US"
- Mel Hogan, “Dykes on Mykes: Podcasting and the Activist Archive”
- Mitchell Whitelaw, "Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections"
- Lauren F. Klein, "The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings" (PDF on Canvas)
- Trevor Owens, "Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History"
- Kate Theimer, "A Distinction Worth Exploring: “Archives” and “Digital Historical Representations”"
- Sheila Brennan, “Getting to the Stuff: Digital Cultural Heritage Collections, Absence, and Memory,”
- Sofia Becerra-Licha, "Participatory and Post-Custodial Archives as Community Practice"
- Achille Mbembe, "Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive"
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OHP Plan Data Collection & Community Engagement Plan
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Class 7: M 2/3
Topics: Using Visualization Tools - Mapping and Spatial Analysis
OHP: Checkin with OHP
Tools: StoryMap JS & TimelineJS
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Spatial History & Visualization
READ Richard White, “What Is Spatial History?” (15 mins)
READ Stephen Robertson, "Putting Harlem on the Map" (21 mins)
READ Christian Rudder, “The United States of Reddit: How Social Media Is Redrawing Our Borders.” (11 mins)
READ Erin McElroy, "The Digital Humanities, American Studies, and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project" (PDF on Canvas; 12 mins)
READ Monica Munoz Martinez, "Mapping Segregated Histories" (PDF on Canvas; 14 mins)
READ Andrew Wiseman, "When Maps Lie" (20 mins)
READ Anne Knowles, “A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg." (10 mins)
DH PROJECT Lorena Gauthereau, "Are We Good Neighbors"
READ Lorena Gauthereau, “Digital Hispanisms: Using Third World Feminism in DH" (7 mins)
DH PROJECT Google Arts & Culture, "National Museum of Mexican Art Streetview"
DH PROJECT Google Arts & Culture, "Nine Latino Neighborhoods You Can Explore in Street View"
DH PROJECT Google Arts & Culture, "Latino Murals in the US"
REFLECT What is spatial history? How do spatial and digital history overlap? In what ways can we visualize space, time, and space + time? What things do we need to be careful of in visualizing space & time?
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FURTHER RESOURCES
- DH PROJECT Brian Foo & NYPL Laps, "Navigating the Green Book"
- DH PROJECT Joel Zapata, "Chiana/o Activism in the Southern Plains through Time and Space"
- DH PROJECT "Mapping Occupation"
- DH PROJECT "Photogrammar"
- DH PROJECT "Pleiades"
- Jo Guldi, "What is the Spatial Turn?" - explore what the spatial turn means in different academic disciplines
- SSRC, "Mapping and Spatial Analysis"
- Jefferson Bailey, "Speak to the Eyes: The History and Practice of Information Visualization"
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Progress Update
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Class 8: W 2/5
Topics: Digital analysis: Distant reading, text analysis, visualization
Tools: Voyant
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Text Analysis and Visualization
READ Cameron Blevins, "Topic Modeling Martha Ballard's Diary" (7 mins)
READ Matthew Wilkins, "Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method" (18 mins)
READ Dan Cohen, "Searching for the Victorians" (13 mins)
DO Use this tutorial to experiment with the text analysis tool Voyant: SSRC, "Voyant Tutorial"
Other Historical Visualizations
READ S. Graham, et al, "Principles of Information Visualization" (42 mins)
READ John Theibault, "Visualizations and Historical Arguments" (23 mins)
READ Cameron Blevins, "Mining and Mapping the Production of Space: A View of the World from Houston" (16 mins)
READ Caroline Winterer, "Visualizing Benjamin Franklin's Correspondence Network" (6 mins)
READ Johnathan Lyons, "Dear Sir, Ben Franklin Would Like to Add You to His Network" (9 mins)
DH PROJECT "Musical Passage"
DH PROJECT Cameron Blevins and Jason Heppler, "Geography of the Post: U.S. Post Offices in the Nineteenth-Century West"
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Further Resources
- Cameron Blevins, "Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston"
- Ted Underwood, “Where to start with text mining"
- Megan R. Brett, "Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction"
- SSRC, "Basic Visualizations"
- Allen Beye Riddell, "How to Read 22,198 Journal Articles: Studying the History of German Studies with Topic Models"
- SSRC, "Introduction to Textual Analysis"
- DH PROJECT "Borderlands Archives Cartography"
- DH PROJECT Frances Willard House Museum, "Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells"
- DH PROJECT Micki Kaufman, "'Everything on Paper Will be Used Against Me': Quantifying Kissinger"
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Podcast
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Class 9: M 2/10
Topics: Organizational Digital Strategy: Social Media
OHP: Project Pitches
Tools: Instagram
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Social Media in Cultural Institutions
READ Kerry Hannon, “Museums, the New Social Media Darlings,” (6 mins)
READ Jonas Heide Smith, “The Me/Us/Them model...” (23 mins)
READ Robert Stein, "Blow Up Your Digital Strategy: Changing the Conversation about Museums and Technology" (17 mins)
READ Jennifer Hijazi, “Is Instagram killing museum culture or reinventing it?” (5 mins)
READ Dana Allen-Greil, et al, "Social Media and Organizational Change" (35 mins)
DO Examine a local organization. Review their social media accounts, and use these recommendations to make [theoretical] recommendations on how they can strengthen their influence & engagement in a 1-page report.
Using Social Media Data in DH Projects
DH PROJECT "Every Three Minutes"
READ Caleb McDaniel "Slave Sales on Twitter" (8 mins)
DH PROJECT "DASH Amerikan"
READ Jordan Buysse, Alicia Caticha, Alyssa Collins, Justin Greenlee, Sarah McEleney, Joseph Thompson, "DASH Amerikan: Keeping Up with the Social Media Ecologies of the Kardashians" (PDF on Canvas) (5 mins)
Technology, Cultural Preservation, and Controversy
READ Laura Sydell, "3D Scans Help Preserve History, But Who Should Own Them?" (5 mins)
READ Joy Buolamwini, "Algorithms aren't racist. Your skin is just too dark." (6 mins)
Further Resources
- DH PROJECT "Ecos del Desierto"
- DH PROJECT "Embattled Borderlands"
- DH PROJECT "Celebrating Selena: Fotos y Recuerdos"
- DH PROJECT Googles Arts & Culture, "Joteria"
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Project Pitch to OHP
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Class 10: W 2/12
Topics: The Crowdsourced Web
OHP: Address revisions based on OHP feedback
Tools: Wikipedia
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Crowdsourcing History
READ Elissa Frankle, "More Crowdsourced Scholarship: Citizen History" (6 mins)
READ Trevor Owens, "Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives Are Upside Down" (9 mins)
READ Trevor Owens, "The Crowd and the Library" (7 mins)
READ Trevor Owens, "Human Computation and Wisdom of Crowds in Cultural Heritage" (9 mins)
READ Trevor Owens, "Software as Scaffolding and Motivation and Meaning: The How and Why of Crowdsourcing" (7 mins)
READ Trevor Owens, "The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects" (4 mins)
DH PROJECT Clio
DH PROJECT NYPL Labs, "Building Inspector"
REFLECT What is crowdsourcing and how does it fit into our goals as public historians? What factors should we consider when implementing a crowdsourcing project?
Wikipedia
READ Michelle Moravec, "The Endless Night of Wikipedia’s Notable Woman Problem" (15 mins)
READ "Wikipedia: Five Pillars" (2 mins)
READ Stephen Harrison, "The Notability Blues" (7 mins)
READ Krista McCracken, "Doing the work: Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation" (19 mins)
READ "We’re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western?"" (5 mins)
REFLECT What are the principles/rules key to Wikipedia? Is Wikipedia good history? How can we use it in a responsible way? Should we, as historians, contribute to Wikipedia?
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Further Resources
- DH PROJECT NYPL Labs, "Emigrant City"
- Robert S. Wolff, "The Historian's Craft, Popular Memory, and Wikipedia"
- Tim Causer and Valerie Wallace, "Building A Volunteer Community: Results and Findings from Transcribe Bentham"
- Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, "Creating Meaning in a Sea of Information: The Women and Social Movements Sites"
- Roy Rosenzweig, "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past"
- Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia
- SSRC, "Resource Sheet: Crowdsourcing Tools
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Project revisions - Address revisions suggested by OHP
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Class 11: M 2/17
Topics: Integrating DH into Public History - how does it fit?
OHP: Check in with OHP
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READ Sheila Brennan, "Public, First" (9 mins)
DH PROJECT Ford's Theatre, "Remembering Lincoln"
DH PROJECT Ford's Theatre, "Lincoln's Assassination"
READ Ford's Theatre, "Storytelling, the Web, and the Ford's Theatre Historic Site
READ Julia Flanders, "Time, Labor, and “Alternate Careers” in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work" (40 mins)
Public History, Digital Technology & The Digital Divide
READ Andrew Hurley, “Chasing the Frontiers of Digital Technology: Public History Meets the Digital Divide” (PDF on canvas; 35 mins)
READ Lara Kelland, “Digital Community Engagement Across the Divides” (6 mins)
READ Sharon Leon, “Access For All” (6 mins)
READ Kerri Young, “Audience Analysis and the Role of the Digital in Community Engagement” (5 mins)
READ Deborah Boyer, “Finding the intersection of technology and public history” (6 mins)
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Further Resources
DH PROJECT Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, "Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe"
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Digital Review 2
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Class 12: W 2/19
Topics: DH Inclusiveness: Race, Gender, and Disability
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READ George H. Williams, Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities (22 mins)
READ Aimi Hamraie, "Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice" (PDF on Canvas; 49 mins)
READ Miriam Posner, What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities (19 mins)
READ Amy E. Earhart and Toniesha L. Taylor, "Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson" (25 mins)
DH PROJECT Linda Garcia Merchant, "Chicana Diasporic: The Chicana Caucus of the NWPC"
READ Linda Garcia Merchant, "Chicana Feminism Virtually Remixed" (PDF on Canvas; 4 mins))
DH PROJECT H.N. Lukes and David J. Kim, "The Grit and Glamour of Queer LA Subculture"
READ H. N. Lukes and David J. Kim, "Becoming Digital, Becoming Queer" (PDF on Canvas; 6 mins)
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Further Resources
- Elizabeth Losh, Jacqueline Wernimont, Laura Wexler, Hong-An Wu, Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess
- Kim Gallon, Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities
- Tara McPherson, Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation
- María Cotera, "Nuestra Autohistoria: Toward a Chicana Digital Praxis" (PDF on Canvas)
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Project Draft 1
HYPOTHESIS |
Class 13: M 2/24
Topics: Workshop Project Components; Practice Presentations |
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Project Draft 2 |
Class 14: W 2/26
Topics: Final Presentations to OHP |
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Final Presentation
Final Project Due
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