Introduction to Digital Humanities

Resources

Course Readings

Burdick, Anne, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp. "A Short Guide To The Digital_Humanities" in Digital_Humanities. Open Access. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012. Hypothesis link.

Butler, Judith. "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory." Theatre Journal 40, no. 4 (1988): 519-31. Hypothes.is link.

Drucker, Johanna. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011). Hypothes.is link.

Gilliland, Anne J. “Setting the Stage.” In Introduction to Metadata, edited by Murtha Baca. The Getty, 2016. http://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata. Hypothes.is link.

Kirschenbaum, Matthew. “What Is ‘Digital Humanities,’ and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It?” Differences 25, no. 1 (2014). Hypothesis link. 

Lister, Martin. et al., "New Media in Everyday Life" in New Media: A Critical Introduction, London: Routledge, 2009, 237-307. Hypothesis link.

McLuhan, Marshall.  "The Medium is the Message" in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. Hypothes.is link.

Moretti, Franco. "Patterns and Interpretation." Pamphlets of the Stanford Literary Lab, 2017. https://litlab.standord.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet15.pdf. Hypothesis link.

Schöch, Christof. “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities.” Journal of Digital Humanities, November 22, 2013. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-3/big-smart-clean-messy-data-in-the-humanities/. Hypothes.is link.

Underwood, Ted. "Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History,"in Mathew Gold and Lauren Klein eds., Debates in Digital Humanities 2016. Open access edition, http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/. Hypothes.is link.

Yau, Nathan. Data Points: Visualization That Means Something. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley and Sons, 2013. Chapter 3. Hypothes.is link.

Course Tools

Hypothesis- web annotation app

Morph- visualization tool

Palladio
-visualization and network analysis tool

Raw Graphs- visualization tool

Scalar
- digital publishing platform

Tableau- visualization tool

​Voyant- text analysis tool
 

Course Websites

Alan Liu's Data Collections and Datasets

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

Changing Landscapes: From 'The ASU Story' to Modern A-State

DiRT Directory

DH Commons


DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly


Dr. John Rasp's Data Sets for Classroom Us​e

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Scalar 2 User's Guide

The Public Historian

Torn Apart/ Separados

Transcribing Modern Manuscripts

UCLA Center for Digital Humanities


US Gun Deaths 2013

Using Dublin Core – The Elements

Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

What is Digital Humanities?

Additional Resources

SSRC Doing Digital Scholarship- Doing Digital Scholarship offers a self-guided introduction to digital scholarship, designed for digital novices. It allows you to dip a toe into a very large field of practice.

The Programming Historian- The Programming Historian publishes novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. 

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