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  What is Digital Humanities? A Theoretical Introduction

  As a diverse and still emerging field, there is no agreed-upon definition for the term "digital humanities." The following definitions were summarized from quotes submitted by Day of DH participants between 2009-2014.
  
  In our first class meeting we will discuss some of the theoretical questions that animate these definitional debates. To prepare, please read and collaboratively annotate the following:
  
  1. Anne Burdick et al., Digital_Humanities, Open Access (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012): Chapters 1 and 4. Hypothes.is link.
  
  2. Kirschenbaum, Matthew. “What Is ‘Digital Humanities,’ and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things about It?” Differences 25, no. 1 (2014).  Hypothes.is link.
  
  3. ​Berry, David M. “The Computational Turn: Thinking about the Digital Humanities,” Culture Machine 12 (2011): 1–22. Hypothes.is link.

  Why Annotate?

  Annotating is a form of active reading where you record your critical engagement with a text. You can identify arguments, weigh evidence, evaluate sources, identify assumptions, pose questions and examine connections with other course materials and themes.
  
  You should annotate as you read because it:

  • ensures that you engage actively on the first reading
  • minimizes the need to re-read
  • makes the organization and contribution of a text stand out

  Annotating with Hypothes.is

  In this course we will collaboratively annotate with the web-annotation app Hypothes.is, which allows you to tag, highlight, comment, reply, and embed media and links to online sources. To participate you will need to create a Hypothes.is account  (sign up here), add the Hypothes.is extension to your Chrome browser, and join our Hypothes.is group by signing into your account and visiting the link that’s been shared with you. Once you’ve joined our group "Digital Humanities S18," that same link will serve as our group home page. At the group home page, you can see a list of group members with links to their annotations and links to the resources annotated by the group. You can also link away to a stream of annotations created by group members across various resources. For technical questions please consult Hypothes.is' Student Resource Guide and youtube playlist Tutorials.