| Sept 16 |
Smith, Martha Nell. “Democratizing Knowledge.” Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 26.5 (2005): 12-15. Print.
online |
| Sept 21 |
Unsworth, John. “What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?” Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4 (2002): 71-84. Print.
online |
| Sept 23 |
“book,” New Encyclopædia Britanica 2: 369-70. |
| Sept 28 |
Wikipedia: “History of books” |
| Oct 5 |
Wikipedia: “Computer” |
| Oct 7 |
Wikipedia: “Computer program”
Wikipedia: “Turing machine”
Wikipedia: “Turing test” |
| Oct 26 |
Poritz, Jonathan A. “Who Searches the Searchers? Community Privacy in the Age of Monolithic Search Engines.” Information Society 23.5 (2007): 383-89. Print. online |
| Oct 28 |
Wikipedia: “Web 2.0”
Wesch, Michael. “The Machine is Us/ing Us” YouTube online. |
| Nov 2 |
Dominick, Joseph R. “Who Do You Think You Are? Personal Home Pages and Self-Presentation on the World Wide Web.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 76.4 (1999): 646-58. Print. online | online |
| Nov 4 |
web site: Average Joes
web site: Twiggs |
| Nov 9 |
Boon, Stuart, and Christine Sinclair. “A world I don’t inhabit: disquiet and identity in Second Life and Facebook.” Educational Media International 46.2 (2009): 99-110. online |
| Nov 11 |
Jordan, John W. “A Virtual Death and a Real Dilemma: Identity, Trust, and Community in Cyberspace.” Southern Communication Journal 70.3 (2005): 200-18. online |
| Nov 23 |
Rockwell, Geoffrey. “What is Text Analysis, Really?” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 209-19. Print. online |
| Nov 25 |
Sinclair, Stéfan. “Computer-Assisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 175-84. Print. online
Sinclair, Stéfan. “HyperPo.” <tapor.mcmaster.ca/~hyperpo> |
| Nov 30 |
Craig, Hugh. “Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies.” A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Print. <www.digitalhumanities.org/companion>. online |
| Dec 2 |
Hardy, Thomas. “The Son’s Veto.” Life’s Little Ironies. online (35-52) | online |
| Feb 3 |
Rockwell, Geoffrey. “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games.” Computers and the Humanities 36.3 (2002): 345-58. Print. online |
| Feb 10 |
Porush, David. “Post Media Human Modern: How Nature Was Finished When It Invented the Human Brain.” The Yearbook of English Studies 37.2 (2007): 146-63. online |
| Feb 15 |
Bartlett, Laura, and Thomas B. Byers. “Back to the Future: The Humanist Matrix. Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 28-46. online |
| Mar 8 |
Hayles, N. Katherine. “The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext.” Narrative 9.1 (Jan. 2001): 21-39. online |
| Mar 17 |
Willinsky, John, Sally Murray, Claire Kendall, and Anita Palepu. “Doing Medical Journals Differently: Open Medicine, Open Access, and Academic Freedom.” Canadian Journal of Communication 32.3/4 (2007): 595-612. online |
| Mar 29 |
Richtel, Matt. “Hooked on gadgets and paying a mental price.” Intermedia 38.3 (July 2010): 14-19. online |
| Apr 5 |
Graham, Lynda. “It was a challenge but we did it! Digital worlds in a primary classroom.” Literacy 43.2 (July 2009): 107-14. online |
| Sep 14 | Introduction | |
| Sep 16 | Digital Humanities | |
| Sep 21 | Digital Humanities | |
| Sep 23 | History of the book | |
| Sep 28 | History of the book | |
| Sep 30 | Class cancelled | |
| Oct 5 | History of the computer | |
| Oct 7 | History of the computer | |
| Oct 19 | World Wide Web: history and design | |
| Oct 21 | World Wide Web: use and limitations | |
| Oct 26 | World Wide Web: security, privacy, and accessibility | |
| Oct 28 | World Wide Web: Web 2.0 | |
| Nov 2 | Identity and the Internet | |
| Nov 4 | Identity and the Internet | |
| Nov 9 | Social computing | |
| Nov 11 | Social computing | |
| Nov 16 | Text analysis: theory and a bit of practice | |
| Nov 18 | Text analysis: theory and a bit of practice | |
| Nov 23 | Text analysis: theory and a bit of practice | first assignment due |
| Nov 25 | Text analysis: theory and a bit of practice | |
| Nov 30 | Text analysis: theory and a bit of practice | |
| Dec 2 | Text analysis: theory and a bit of practice | |
| Dec 7 | Text analysis: theory and a bit of practice | |
| Dec 9 | In-class test | |
| Jan 11 | Visualization | |
| Jan 13 | Visualization | |
| Jan 18 | Social profiling: The Numerati | second assignment due |
| Jan 20 | Social profiling: The Numerati | |
| Jan 25 | Feed | |
| Jan 27 | Feed | |
| Feb 1 | Human-computer interaction | |
| Feb 3 | The study of gaming | |
| Feb 8 | The study of gaming | |
| Feb 10 | The posthuman | |
| Feb 15 | The posthuman | |
| Feb 17 | In-class test | |
| Mar 1 | Snow Crash | third assignment due |
| Mar 3 | Snow Crash | |
| Mar 8 | Hypertext | |
| Mar 10 | Hypertext | |
| Mar 15 | Copyright and open access | |
| Mar 17 | Copyright and open access | |
| Mar 22 | Information management | |
| Mar 24 | Information management | |
| Mar 29 | Information overload | fourth assignment due |
| Mar 31 | Digital pedagogy | |
| Apr 5 | Digital pedagogy | |
| Apr 7 | Review | |