Week 11: Digital Humanities

In Class

• Assigned exploration and readings:
  • Debates in the Digital Humanities (2011)
    • Read Chapter 1: "What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?" by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.
  • Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016)
  • Debates in the Digital Humanities (2019)
• Guides:
  • WCU Digital Humanities
  • Wikipedia entry on DH
• Text Processing & Analysis:
  • Markov chain generators
  • Text topology
  • Voyant
• Methodologies:
  • Text Encoding - XML/TEI in 5 Minutes, TEI
  • Topic modeling - Topic Modeling: Introduction
  • Distant reading - Franco Moretti video
  • Digital Archives & Publication - Walden: A Fluid Text Edition, The Electronic Literature Collection
  • Visualization - Torn Apart
• Projects:
  • DH Awards
  • Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities

Assignment

• Readings:
  • "Print is Flat, Code is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis" by N. Katherine Hayles
  • Watch lecture on "Third Generation Electronic Literature" and read "Third Generation Electronic Literature" by Leonardo Flores
  • Explore The Electronic Literature Collection, volumes 1-3.
• Writing:
  • How do these works' media-specificity move away from the media-specific constraints of the print tradition? Respond to at least three works of electronic literature in the electronic literature collections. Due before class.