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. 

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

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

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

Guldi, Jo, and David Armitage. “Big Questions, Big Data.” In The History Manifesto, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 

Herder, Janosik. “The Power of Platforms.” Public Seminar. (January 25, 2019). http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/01/the-power-of-platforms/.

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

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

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

Risam, Roopika. New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018).

Schöch, Christof. “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities.” Journal of Digital Humanities, November 22, 2013. 

Schwartz, Michelle and Constance Crompton, “Remaking History: Lesbian Feminist Historical Methods in the Digital Humanities” In Losh, Elizabeth, and Jacqueline Wernimont, eds. Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Tiffert, Glenn D. “Peering down the Memory Hole: Censorship, Digitization, and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base.” The American Historical Review 124, no. 2 (April 1, 2019): 550–68.

Umoja Noble, Safiya. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. (New York: New York University Press, 2018).  Introduction and Chapter 1. 

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/. 

Weingart, Scott B. “Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (2012).

Wueste, Elizabeth. “Big Data, Big Problems.” Eidolon, December 18, 2017. 

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

Course Tools

Cytoscape- network analysis tool

Hypothesis
- web annotation app

Morph- visualization tool

OpenRefine- data cleaning 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

Alan Liu's DH Toychest

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations 

American Panorama

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly


Histography.io 

Kindred Britain

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America


Mapping the Republic of Letters​​​​​​​

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

UCLA Center for Digital Humanities


Using Dublin Core – The Elements

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.

Storybench Tutorials - Storybench takes an “under the hood” look at the latest in digital storytelling, from data visualization and investigative journalism to virtual reality and the digital humanities. In addition to in-depth interviews with industry practitioners, we offer hands-on tutorials that can be “downloaded” right into the classroom or newsroom. 

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. 

University of Pittsburgh Finding Data Library Guide- This guide points to resources that can be used to search for and identify potentially relevant and useful sources of data across a variety of disciplines.It also lists, briefly describes, and links to sources and repositories containing data, with a focus on open access sources and those available to University of Pittsburgh researcher.

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