This is a running list of key terms that have been covered in class, in the order that they have come up. All of these terms are fair game for the final exam; if you can define every term on this list, then you should be in excellent shape. If there are any terms that you are not able to confidently define, review them with a classmate, or come talk to me in office hours. I will offer answers to specific questions in class or in office hours, but I will not recapitulate lessons, nor will I answer review questions over email.

Week 1:
  • Analog
  • Digital
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Qualitative analysis
Week 2:
  • Library
  • Jonathan Zittrain’s “The Internet is Rotting”
  • The Bechdel Test
  • Amanda Shendruk’s “Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters”
Week 3:
  • Media
  • Rhetoric
  • Connotation
  • Denotation
  • Serif
  • Sans serif
  • Universal Design
  • Domain name
  • Top-level domain
  • Subdomain
  • Search engine optimization
  • Hosting
  • Server
  • Website Builder
  • Content Management System
  • C Panel
  • Page
  • Post
  • RSS
  • Widget
  • Plugin
  • Shortcode
Week 4:
  • Tara Menon’s “Keeping Count”
  • Artifact
  • Primary source
  • Secondary source
  • Scholarly source
  • Peer review
  • Boolean operators
Week 5:
  • Data
  • Metadata
  • Field
  • Value
  • Dublin Core
  • Magritte’s The Treachery of Images
  • Lumpers
  • Splitters
  • Controlled vocabularies
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  • Authority file
  • Dewey Decimal classification system
  • Library of Congress classification system
Weeks 7:
  • HTML
  • XML
  • TEI
  • XML tag
  • XML element
  • XML attribute
Week 9:
  • Copyright
  • Patent
  • Trademark
  • Article I Section 8 Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution
  • Title 17 of the United States Code
  • Public Domain
  • Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998
  • Fair Use
  • Creative Commons
  • Open Access
  • Ruha Benjamin’s “A New Jim Code?”
  • Sarah Brayne’s “Relying on Algorithms can Further Bias and Inequality”
  • Daniel Politi’s “Facebook Apologizes After its AI Mislabels Video of Black Men as ‘Primates'”
Weeks 10-14:
  • Timeline
  • Storymap
  • x-axis
  • y-axis
  • Scatter plot
  • Trendline
  • Bar graph
  • Histogram
  • Bins
  • Close reading
  • Distant reading
  • Corpus
  • Word cloud
  • N-gram
  • Flowchart
  • Sankey
  • Edward Tufte
  • Charles Joseph Minard