Making the Humanities Digital

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Hopkins, Curt. “Future U: Rise of the Digital Humanities.” Ars Technica, June 17, 2012. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/future-u-rise-of-the-digital-humanities/.
2. Cohen, Patricia. Humanities 2.0, n.d. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/books/series/humanities_20/?s=oldest.
3. Powers, Richard. “Enquire Within Upon Everything.” In Switching Codes, edited by Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover, 307–313. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Crane, Ronald. “The Idea of the Humanities.” In The Idea of the Humanities, and Other Essays Critical and Historical, 3–15. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. PDF.
2. Frye, Northrop. “Expanding Eyes.” Critical Inquiry 2, no. 2 (1975): 199–216. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1342899.
3. Williams, Bernard. “Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline.” Philosophy 75, no. 04 (2000): 477–496. http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0031819100000632.
4. Bruner, Jerome. “Possible Castles.” In Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, 44–54. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986. PDF.
5. Sennett, Richard. “Humanism.” The Hedgehog Review 13, no. 2 (2011). http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2011_Summer_Sennett.php.
6. Dames, Nicholas. “Why Bother?” n+1, no. 11 (April 13, 2011). http://nplusonemag.com/why-bother.
7. Burke, Timothy. “Oh the Humanities.” Easily Distracted, February 25, 2009. http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/02/25/oh-the-humanities/.
8. Bogost, Ian. “Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground, Part I: The Humanities in Public”, August 23, 2011. http://www.bogost.com/blog/beyond_the_elbow-patched_playg.shtml.
9. Davidson, Cathy N., and David Theo Goldberg. “A Manifesto for the Humanities in a Technological Age.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (n.d.): February 13, 2004. http://chronicle.com/article/A-Manifesto-for-the-Humanities/17844.
10. “Duke to Overhaul Humanities.” Duke Today, June 28, 2011. http://today.duke.edu/2011/06/humanities.
11. “University to Create Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative.” University Gazette, n.d., 2012-07-10 edition. http://gazette.unc.edu/2012/07/10/university-to-create-carolina-digital-humanities-initiative/.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.
   Reading tips

   Read “The History of Humanities Computing” (Hockney) and at least one of the other discipline-specific historical overviews in Part I (archaeology, art history, classics, history, lexicography, linguistics, literary studies, music, multimedia, performing arts, and philosophy/religion).

2. Lieb, Irwin C. “The ACLS program for computer studies in the humanities: Notes on computers and the humanities.” Computers and the Humanities 1 (September 1966). http://www.springerlink.com/content/ut48k13858644j32/.
3. Brewster, Kingman, Jr., Jacques Barzun, Robert P. Abelson, and Elting E. Morison. “A Panel Discussion.” In Computers for the Humanities?, 145–158. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. PDF.
4. Fallman, Daniel. “Design-oriented human-computer interaction.” 225. ACM Press, 2003. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=642652.
5. Sengers, Phoebe, Kirsten Boehner, Shay David, and Joseph “Jofish” Kaye. “Reflective design.” 49. ACM Press, 2005. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094569.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Gibbs, Fred. “Digital Humanities Definitions by Type.” Historyproef, September 5, 2011. http://historyproef.org/blog/teaching/digital-humanities-definitions-by-type/.
2. Svensson, Patrik. “From Optical Fiber To Conceptual Cyberinfrastructure” 5, no. 1 (2011). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000090/000090.html.
3. Svensson, Patrik. “Envisioning the Digital Humanities” 6, no. 1 (2012). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/1/000112/000112.html.
4. DiSalvo, Carl. “Design and the Construction of Publics.” Design Issues 25, no. 1 (2009): 48-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi.2009.25.1.48.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Burke, Timothy. “How I Talk About Searching, Discovery and Research in Courses.” Easily Distracted, May 9, 2011. http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2011/05/09/how-i-talk-about-searching-discovery-and-research-in-courses/.
2. Guldi, Joanna. “The History of Walking and the Digital Turn: Stride and Lounge in London, 1808–1851.” The Journal of Modern History 84, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 116–144. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/663350.
   Reading tips

   Just read the first part, unless you have a particular interest in “gait-related cultural events.”

3. Underwood, Ted. “For most literary scholars, text mining is going to be an exploratory tool.” The Stone and the Shell, August 15, 2011. http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/how-to-make-text-mining-serve-literary-history-and-not-the-other-way-around/.
4. O’Malley, Mike. “Evidence and Scarcity.” The Aporetic, October 2, 2010. http://theaporetic.com/?p=176.
5. Takats, Sean. “Evidence and Abundance.” The Quintessence of Ham, October 18, 2010. http://quintessenceofham.org/2010/10/18/evidence-and-abundance/.
6. Löwgren, Jonas, and Erik Stolterman. “The Product and Its Use Qualities.” In Thoughtful Interaction Design, 101–140. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Hockey, Susan. “Text Encoding.” In Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice, 24–48. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198711940.001.0001/acprof-9780198711940-chapter-3.
2. Liu, Alan. “Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse.” Critical Inquiry 31, no. 1 (September 1, 2004): 49–84. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/427302.
3. TEI Consortium. “About These Guidelines.” In P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, 2010. http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/AB.html.
   Reading tips

   An overview of and introduction to the TEI P5 guidelines. Also take a look at some of the other sections of the manual, just to get a sense of what TEI provides. For example, the tags for encoding verse structure, transcriptions of speech, or names, dates, people, and places.

4. Walsh, John A. “Comic Book Markup Language: An Introduction and Rationale” 6, no. 1 (2012). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/1/000117/000117.html.
5. Bardzell, Jeffrey, and Shaowen Bardzell. “Interaction criticism.” 2463. ACM Press, 2008. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358703.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Liu, Alan. “Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, 490–509. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. PDF.
2. Gibbs, Fred. “Critical Discourse in Digital Humanities.” Journal of Digital Humanities (March 9, 2012). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/critical-discourse-in-digital-humanities-by-fred-gibbs/.
3. Drucker, Johanna. “Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, 85–95. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Moretti, Franco. “Conjectures on World Literature.” New Left Review, no. 1 (January–February 2000): 54-68. http://newleftreview.org/A2094.
2. Allison, Sarah, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, and Michael Witmore. Quantitative Formalism: an Experiment. Literary Lab Pamphlet Series. Stanford, CA: Stanford Literary Lab, 2011. http://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet1.pdf.
3. Hayles, N. Katherine. “How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine.” ADE Bulletin no. 150 (2010): 62–79. http://goo.gl/wTCr7.
   Reading tips

   In addition to or instead of this reading, you may watch this video of Hayles presenting it at Duquesne University.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Pruitt, John, and Jonathan Grudin. “Personas.” In Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Designing for User Experiences, 1. ACM Press, 2003. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=997089.
2. Carrol, J. M.“Five reasons for scenario-based design.” In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Vol. 3. IEEE, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772890.
3. Nielsen, Lene. “From user to character.” In Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing Interactive Systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques, 99. ACM Press, 2002. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=778729.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Paton, Bec, and Kees Dorst. “Briefing and Reframing: A Situated Practice.” Design Studies 32, no. 6 (November 2011): 573–587. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X11000561.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Buxton, Bill. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 2007. PDF.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Wolf, Tracee Vetting, Jennifer A. Rode, Jeremy Sussman, and Wendy A. Kellogg. “Dispelling ‘design’ as the black art of CHI.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, 521–530. CHI  ’06. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2006. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124853.

📖 To read before this meeting:

1. Tohidi, Maryam, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, and Abigail Sellen. “User sketches: a quick, inexpensive, and effective way to elicit more reflective user feedback.” In Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles, 105–114. NordiCHI  ’06. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2006. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1182475.1182487.