Week 1: What is Digital Humanities?

Tuesday, January 21: Defining DH

• In class:
  • Digital Humanities definitions and examples
  • Go over the syllabus

Response due Thursday 1/23: Introduce yourself in the forum on moodle

Thursday, January 23: Digital humanities projects

• Readings:
  • Miriam Posner, “How Did They Make That? Reverse-Engineering Digital Projects” (video) (40 min)
  • Kirschenbaum, Matt “What Is Digital Humanities” (2011) (7 pages)
  • Explore Digital Humanities definition generator definition generator
• In class:
  • Project analysis activity and discussion
  • Introduce project review assignment (due 1/31)
  • Quick introduction to Markdown and GitHub
• Tasks:
  • Sign up for a GitHub account and sign up for the Student Developer Pack
  • Install VS Code text editor on your laptop
  • Install Git following these instructions

Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Readings and viewings
3. Project analysis
4. Assignment
5. Week 2 preview

Projects

• Digital Panopticon https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/
• The Colors of Ozu: https://drodz11.github.io/colors-of-ozu/
• Encyclopedia of the dog: https://encyclopediaofthedog.com/
• Torn apart/Separados: https://xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/volume/2/
• Un/Tied: https://www.untied.shoes/