| Sep 12 | Introduction | |
| Sep 14 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | |
| Sep 19 | Introduction to Digital Humanities
• Smith, Martha Nell. “Democratizing Knowledge.” Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 26.5 (2005): 12-15. Print. online | |
| Sep 21 | Introduction to Digital Humanities
• Unsworth, John. “What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?” Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4 (2002): 71-84. Print. online | |
| Sep 26 | History of the book
• Wikipedia: “History of books” | |
| Sep 28 | History of the book | |
| Oct 3 | History of the computer
• Wikipedia: “Computer”: introduction, “History of computing,” and “Programs.” | |
| Oct 5 | History of the computer
• Wikipedia: “Turing test”: introduction and “History.” | |
| Oct 17 | History of the Internet and World Wide Web | |
| Oct 19 | Web 2.0
• Wikipedia: “Web 2.0”: introduction, “History,” and “Characteristics.”
• Wesch, Michael. “The Machine is Us/ing Us” YouTube online. | |
| Oct 24 | Identity and the Internet
• 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 | |
| Oct 26 | Identity and the Internet
• Creative Learning
• Gulliver’s Quality Books and Toys | |
| Oct 31 | Text analysis: introduction | |
| Nov 2 | Text analysis: Google Tools | |
| Nov 7 | Text analysis: text encoding and XML | |
| Nov 9 | Text analysis: text encoding and XML | |
| Nov 14 | Text analysis: ludic analysis
• Rockwell, Geoffrey. “What is Text Analysis, Really?” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 209-19. Print. online | first assignment due |
| Nov 16 | Text analysis: online tools
• Sinclair, Stéfan. “Computer-Assisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 175-84. Print. online | |
| Nov 21 | Text analysis: computational stylistics
• 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 | |
| Nov 23 | Text analysis: further examples | |
| Nov 28 | Text analysis: in-class workshop | |
| Nov 30 | Visualization | |
| Dec 5 | Visualization | second assignment due |
| Dec 7 | Mid-term test | |
| Jan 9 | Human-computer interaction | |
| Jan 11 | Digital pedagogy | |
| Jan 16 | Digital pedagogy
• Martinez, Monica. “Teacher Education Can’t Ignore Technology.” Phi Delta Kappan 92.2 (Oct 2010): 74-75. online
• Maher, Damian. “Using the multimodal affordances of the interactive whiteboard to support students’ understanding of texts.” Learning, Media and Technology 36.3 (September 2011): 235-50. online | |
| Jan 18 | The study of gaming
• Rockwell, Geoffrey. “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games.” Computers and the Humanities 36.3 (2002): 345-58. Print. online | |
| Jan 23 | The study of gaming
• Gazzard, Alison. “Teleporters, Tunnels & Time: Understanding Warp Devices in Videogames.” Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory. Proceedings of Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2009. online | |
| Jan 25 | The study of gaming | |
| Jan 30 | Digital security, privacy, and accessibility
• 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 | |
| Feb 1 | Social computing
• 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 | |
| Feb 6 | Social computing | third assignment due |
| Feb 8 | Social computing and text analysis | |
| Feb 13 | Social profiling: The Numerati | |
| Feb 15 | Social profiling: The Numerati | |
| Feb 27 | The posthuman
• 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 29 | The posthuman: RoboCop | |
| Mar 5 | Social profiling and posthuman: Feed | |
| Mar 7 | Social profiling and posthuman: Feed | |
| Mar 12 | Hypertext | |
| Mar 14 | Hypertext
• Hayles, N. Katherine. “The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext.” Narrative 9.1 (Jan. 2001): 21-39. online | |
| Mar 19 | Hypertext
• Jhave. Teleport: A tiny tale of inter-body tourism. 2006. bleuOrange 4 (2011). online. | fourth assignment due |
| Mar 21 | Copyright and open access
• Amiran, Eyal. “The Open Access Debate.” symplokē 18.1-2 (2010): 251-60. online | |
| Mar 26 | Information management | |
| Mar 28 | Information overload
• Richtel, Matt. “Hooked on gadgets and paying a mental price.” Intermedia 38.3 (July 2010): 14-19. online | |
| Apr 2 | Review | |
| Apr 4 | Review | |