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Humanities Computing? Digital Humanities? Digital History? A field? A practice? A discipline? A waste of time?
Silent Disco, 2009, Wikimedia Commons
The Codex Gigas, 13th century, Bohemia.
The Gutenberg Bible, 15th century, Germany.
Project Gutenberg, 2019, World Wide Web.
Shift from computing with an emphasis on humanities to...
humanities that is inherently digital in design, form, and publication.
How did we get here?
Constellation of innovations in art, technology, and surveillance.*
*this is still true.
Collaborative
Open access/source
New scales of analysis
Most digital humanities work is done at Centers at universities and funded through grant money from public organizations like the National Endowment for the Humanities or private organizations like the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
Tools: Omeka, Zotero, Tropy
Projects: Who Built America?, The Lost Museum, Mall Histories
Events: Speakers, workshops, 25th anniversary in October
Current Research in Digital History: Annual conference and digital journal
Online Guides for different digital tools
Workshops: one-on-one by appointment or scheduled on the workshop calendar
Speaker series: occasional speakers
Digital Scholarship Center: Fenwick Library, Wing 2700
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: Fourth Floor, Research Hall
Blog post #1– Two parts, due by noon
(350-500 words total)
Wednesday, September 4:
Criteria:
What is Digital History?: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2009/what-is-digital-history
Digital History: http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/
Social Security and IBM: https://www.wired.com/2012/06/how-social-security-saved-ibm/
Making a Turing Test in Slack: https://botsociety.io/blog/2018/03/the-turing-test
The Curse of Xanadu: https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
Hamlet and the Holodeck review (hypertext): https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/hamlet-on-the-holodeck-twenty-years-later
Victory Garden (hypertext novel based on Borges): http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/VictoryGarden.html
Garden of Forking Paths Comic: https://johnmiers.com/portfolio/fp/
New Media Reader: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-media-reader
Gleick, The Information: https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235
Carr, The Shallows: https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750