It’s time to work on syllabi for Fall courses, order books, and prepare readings. With the DH2014 Conference in full swing I am thinking about assignments for my graduate seminar: “Interdisciplinary Readings Seminar in Digital Humanities.” This course is the foundation seminar for our Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at the University of Nebraska. My colleague Steve Ramsay taught the course last fall, and I taught the course in 2012.
Based in part on the Multi-Lingualism and Multi-Culturalism Committee at DH2014, I have required an essay assignment that asks students to engage through social media with one or more scholars or working groups outside of the U.S. and publishing in a language other than English. I’ll have more to post on the particulars of that assignment soon. In the meantime the course will include the following readings (all are tentative, of course, until the syllabus is finalized and I will post my syllabus for comments and suggestions soon):
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918)
Ayers, Edward L. “The Pasts and Futures of Digital History,” Virginia Center for Digital History, (http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/PastsFutures.html)
——–. “Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future?” EDUCAUSE review, August 2013.
Borgman, Christine. “The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities,” Digital Humanities Quarterly (2009).
Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly (July 1945).
Natalia Cecire, “When Digital Humanities Was in Vogue,” Journal of Digital Humanities, 2011
Ethington, Philip J. “Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledege,” American Historical Review (2000).
Gibson, William. Neuromancer. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Habermas, Jurgen. “Science and Technology as ‘Ideology’,” in Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970).
Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Socialist Review (1985).
Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 1977
Koh, Adeline and Roopika Risam, #DHPoco: Postcolonial Digital Humanities, Comics.
Latour, Bruno. An Inquiry in the Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Lanier, Jaron. “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism,” Edge (May 2006).
——–. You are Not a Gadget: a manifesto. New York: Vintage, 2010.
Licklider, J.C.R. “Man-Computer Symbiosis,” IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics (March 1960).
Lunenfeld et al. “The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0” (UCLA, 2009).
Mahoney, Timothy R. “Gilded Age Plains City: Spatial Narratives,” Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (2009).
(http://gildedage.unl.edu/narrative/topics.php?q=theory)
Manovich, Lev. Software Takes Command. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
McPherson, Tressie. “‘Who the Fuck Do You Think You Are?’ Academic Engagement, Microcelebrity and Digital Sociology from the Far Left of the Matrix of Domination,” (2012)
Michel, Jean-Baptiste et al. “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books,” Science Vol. 331 (14 January 2011).
McCarty, Willard. “Humanities Computing,” Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (2003).
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1964.
Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. Verso, 2007.
Murray, Janet. Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.
Ramsay, Stephen. “Toward an Algorithmic Criticism,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 167-174.
Staley, David. “Historical Visualizations,” in Journal of the Association for History and Computing Vol. 3 No. 3 (November 2000)
Thomas, William G. III, and Edward L. Ayers, “The Differences Slavery Made: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” American Historical Review, December 2003.(http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/AHR/)
Turing, A. M. “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Mind 49 (1950).
Turkle, Sherry. “Constructions and Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality,” Mind, Culture, and Activity Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 1994).
White, Richard. “What is Spatial History?” (working paper, Spatial History Project, 2010)
(http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29)
Unsworth, John. “What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?” (2002)
Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
selected readings from Debates in the Digital Humanities online and the Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities online