| Sep 11 | Introduction | |
| Sep 13 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | |
| Sep 18 | 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 (FIXED LINK) | |
| Sep 20 | Introduction to Digital Humanities
• Unsworth, John. “What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?” Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4 (2002): 71-84. Print. online | |
| Sep 25 | Background to print media
• Wikipedia: “History of books” | |
| Sep 27 | Background to print media | |
| Oct 2 | Background to digital media
• Wikipedia: “Computer”: introduction and “History of computing,” | |
| Oct 4 | Background to digital media | |
| Oct 16 | The Internet and World Wide Web | |
| Oct 18 | Web 2.0
• Wikipedia: “Web 2.0”: introduction, “History,” and “Characteristics.”
• Wesch, Michael. “The Machine is Us/ing Us” YouTube online. | |
| Oct 23 | Digital identity
• 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 25 | Digital identity
• Creative Learning
• Gulliver’s Quality Books and Toys | |
| Oct 30 | Text analysis: introduction
• Rockwell, Geoffrey. “What is Text Analysis, Really?” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 209-19. Print. online | |
| Nov 1 | Text analysis: Google Tools | |
| Nov 6 | Text analysis: text encoding and XML | |
| Nov 8 | Text analysis: text encoding and XML | |
| Nov 13 | Text analysis: XML and XSLT | first assignment due |
| Nov 15 | Text analysis: online tools
• Sinclair, Stéfan. “Computer-Assisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 175-84. Print. online | |
| Nov 20 | 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 22 | Text analysis: further examples | |
| Nov 27 | Text analysis: in-class workshop | |
| Nov 29 | Visualization | |
| Dec 4 | Visualization | second assignment due |
| Dec 6 | Mid-term test | |
| Jan 8 | Digital security, privacy, and accessibility | |
| Jan 10 | Social computing
• Bennett, Lucy. “Music Fandom Online: R.E.M. fans in pursuit of the ultimate first listen.” New Media & Society 14.5 (August 2012): 748-63. online | |
| Jan 15 | Social computing
• Papacharissi, Zizi, and Maria de Fatima Oliveira. “Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News Storytelling on #Egypt”. Journal of Communication 62.2 (April 2012): 266-82. online | |
| Jan 17 | Social computing and text analysis | |
| Jan 22 | Social profiling
• The Numerati | |
| Jan 24 | Social profiling
• The Numerati | |
| Jan 29 | Image analysis | |
| Jan 31 | Music analysis | |
| Feb 5 | Human-computer interaction | third assignment due |
| Feb 7 | The study of gaming
• Rockwell, Geoffrey. “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games.” Computers and the Humanities 36.3 (2002): 345-58. Print. online | |
| Feb 12 | The study of gaming
• Apperley, Thomas H. “Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres.” Simulation & Gaming 37.1 (March 2006): 6-23. online | |
| Feb 14 | The study of gaming | |
| Feb 26 | 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 28 | The posthuman
• RoboCop | |
| Mar 5 | Social profiling and posthuman
• Feed | |
| Mar 7 | Social profiling and posthuman
• Feed | |
| Mar 12 | Digital pedagogy | |
| Mar 14 | Digital pedagogy
• Grue, Dustin, Teresa M. Dobson, and Monica Brown. “Reading practices and digital experiences: An investigation into secondary students’ reading practices and XML-markup experiences of fiction.” Literary and Linguistic Computing prepublished online (18 January 2013). online | |
| Mar 19 | Hypertext | fourth assignment due |
| Mar 21 | Hypertext
• Hayles, N. Katherine. “The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext.” Narrative 9.1 (Jan. 2001): 21-39. online | |
| Mar 26 | Hypertext
• Jhave. Teleport: A tiny tale of inter-body tourism. 2006. bleuOrange 4 (2011). online
• Galand, Maxime. “name dropping.” bleuOrange 6 (2012). online | |
| Mar 28 | Copyright and open access | |
| Apr 2 | Review | |
| Apr 4 | Review | |