| Sep 8 | Introduction | |
| Sep 10 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | |
| Sep 15 | 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 17 | Introduction to Digital Humanities
• Unsworth, John. “What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?” Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4 (2002): 71-84. Print. online | |
| Sep 22 | Media history: print and digital
• Wikipedia: “History of books” | |
| Sep 24 | Media history: print and digital | |
| Sep 29 | Web 2.0
• Wesch, Michael. “The Machine is Us/ing Us” YouTube online. | |
| Oct 1 | Digitizing the humanities | |
| Oct 6 | Text analysis: introduction | |
| Oct 8 | Text analysis: Google Tools | |
| Oct 20 | Text analysis: OHCO model
• Rockwell, Geoffrey. “What is Text Analysis, Really?” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 209-19. Print. online | |
| Oct 22 | Text analysis: text encoding: XML | |
| Oct 27 | Text analysis: text encoding: XML and TEI | first assignmnet due |
| Oct 29 | Text analysis: text encoding: XML, TEI, and XSLT | |
| Nov 3 | Text analysis: group project | |
| Nov 5 | Text analysis: group project | |
| Nov 10 | Text analysis: online tools
• Sinclair, Stéfan. “Computer-Assisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 175-84. Print. online | |
| Nov 12 | Text analysis: online tools | |
| Nov 17 | Text analysis: vector space model | |
| Nov 19 | Text analysis: vector space model | |
| Nov 24 | 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 | second assignment due |
| Nov 26 | Text analysis: further examples | |
| Dec 1 | Review | |
| Dec 3 | Mid-term test | |
| Jan 12 | 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 | third assignment due |
| Jan 14 | Social computing | |
| Jan 19 | Social computing
• Lingel, Jessa. “The Digital Remains: Social Media and Practices of Online Grief.” The Information Society 29 (2013): 190–95. Print. online | |
| Jan 21 | Social computing and text analysis
•Golbeck, Jennifer, Cristina Robles, Michon Edmondson, and Karen Turner. “Predicting Personality from Twitter.” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing Boston, MA: 2011. 149–56. online | |
| Jan 26 | Social profiling
• The Numerati | |
| Jan 28 | Social profiling
• The Numerati | |
| Feb 2 | Visualization | |
| Feb 4 | Image analysis | |
| Feb 9 | Image analysis | |
| Feb 11 | Music analysis | |
| Feb 23 | The study of digital games
• Rockwell, Geoffrey. “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games.” Computers and the Humanities 36.3 (2002): 345-58. Print. online | fourth assignment due |
| Feb 25 | The study of digital games | |
| Mar 2 | 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 | |
| Mar 4 | The posthuman
• RoboCop (1987) | |
| Mar 9 | Social profiling and posthuman
• Feed | |
| Mar 11 | Social profiling and posthuman
• Feed | |
| Mar 16 | Digital pedagogy
• Martinez, Monica. “Teacher Education Can’t Ignore Technology.” Phi Delta Kappan 92.2 (Oct 2010): 74-75. online | |
| Mar 18 | Digital pedagogy
• Graham, Robert D. “Smart Clickers in the Classroom: Technolust or the Potential to Engage Students?” CJAR: The Canadian Journal of Action Research 14.1 (2013): 3-20. online | |
| Mar 23 | Hypertext | |
| Mar 25 | Hypertext
• Hayles, N. Katherine. “The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext.” Narrative 9.1 (Jan. 2001): 21-39. online | |
| Mar 30 | Hypertext
• Jhave. Teleport: A tiny tale of inter-body tourism. 2006. bleuOrange 4 (2011). online
• Galand, Maxime. “name dropping.” bleuOrange 6 (2012). online | |
| Apr 1 | Copyright and open access | fifth assignment due |
| Apr 8 | Review | |
| Apr 13 | Review | |