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Why I’m Excited (and a Little Worried) About the Prospects for Digital Humanities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/
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Lisa SpiroDigital Media Center, Rice UniversityOctober 2010
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How Has Society Changed Since the Emergence of the Web?
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How Have the Humanities Changed Since the Emergence of the Web?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymouscollective/4263193267/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nashworld/4317522789/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/derb/456767/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlhamcollege/4387460257/
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The (Digital) Humanities are Beginning to Transform…
Communicating
Representing knowledge
Producing knowledge
Teaching “Digital Humanities 2008 Book of Abstracts”
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What Are the Digital Humanities?
http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/How_do_you_define_Humanities_Computing_/_Digital_Humanities%3F
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Digital Humanities Defined
“Digital humanities is a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology, and the exploration of how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods.”
(Digital Humanities Quarterly)
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Communicating
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How Humanists Have Traditionally Communicated
Researcher
Chats w/ colleagues
Conferences
Meeting with
students
Publications
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How Networked Humanists Communicate
Researcher
Chats w/ colleagues
Conferences
Meeting with
students
Publications
Multimedia publication
sBlogs
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Tweeting Digital Humanists Share information Conduct
conversations Keep track of
conferences Reveal interests of
community
http://twitter.com/#!/dancohen/digitalhumanities
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“Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon”
http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2010/07/dh2010-plenary-present-not-voting.html
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“Going Viral at the Virtual MLA”
http://www.briancroxall.net/2010/03/08/on-going-viral-at-the-virtual-mla/
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Representing Knowledge
http://www.scottbot.net/blog/?page_id=2
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Traditional Forms of Humanities Publication
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The Hypertextual Article: “The Differences Slavery Made”
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/AHR/
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Participatory Scholarship: HyperCities
http://hypercities.com/
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Open Access Publishing
Expand access to knowledge
Make scholarly work more visible
Enable information to be re-used and built upon
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Tools and Methods
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bw/2516698553/
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Deluge of Digital Information 12 million+ volumes in Google Books Average American consumes 34
gigabytes per day (UCSD study) At least 14.54 billion pages on the
indexed web
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Literary Arguments and the Problem of Scale
Primary texts cited in my dissertation: 150ish
Results for search of “bachelor” in Google Books: 181,000
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“Distant Reading”
How do we study world literature and understand the literary system?
Close reading= small canon “Distant reading: where distance… is a
condition of knowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes—or genres and systems.”
Microscope vs. telescope Elaborated in Franco Morretti’s Graphs,
Maps, Trees (2005)
http://www.newleftreview.org/A2094
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Tag Clouds
http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/
“a visualization of word frequencies.” (Many Eyes)
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Topic Modeling: Mining the Dispatch
http://americanpast.richmond.edu/dispatch/pages/home
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Cultural Analytics
http://www.youtube.com/user/Calit2ube#p/search/1/xtbzVuDqSas
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Tracking 18th C Culture of Letters
http://shc.stanford.edu/intellectual-life/video-podcasts/detail/tracking-18th-century-social-network-through-letters
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Valley & Historical Visualization: The Emancipation Project
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/emancipation/BlkPop/migration.html
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Cinematic Maps: Voting America
Visualize evolution of American presidential politics by transforming data into dynamic images “to reveal patterns across time”
http://americanpast.richmond.edu/voting/
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New Educational Models:Looking for Whitman
http://lookingforwhitman.org/
An “experiment in multi-campus digital pedagogy”
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Challenges facing digital scholarship
Getting data Technology development Copyright Funding Academic culture Training Publishing Preservation & sustainability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonlucas/204213403/
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What is the significance of digital humanities?
Collaborative Open, visible, public Experimental Bridges theory and
practice Cultural objects as
“data”; interpret patterns
Engaged with the “now”
PS: It’s fun
THATCamp Parishttp://www.flickr.com/photos/revuesorg/4626510454/
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How do you become a digital humanist
Work at a place like the DMC Develop your own digital humanities project Take a wide variety of courses, e.g.
Caleb McDaniel’s HIST 246: The American Civil War Era
Programming Design Media studies, etc.
Experiment with multimedia tools such as video editing
Read widely Be conscious of digital culture