DH100: Introduction to Digital Humanities
Tuesday/Thursday 9:25am – 10:40am
Brian S. Matzke
Email: bmatzke@ccsu.edu
To meet with me, please schedule an appointment here
This schedule provides links to the video lectures, readings, and assignments for each day of the course. Lectures and readings should be completed before that day’s class. Assignments should be completed by midnight that class day, and will be graded the day after class.
UNIT 1: HUMANITIES AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Week 1: Introductions
8/30
Lecture: Example video
Reading: None
Assignment: None
9/1
Lecture: What is a digital library?
Reading: Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”
Assignment None
Lecture: Example video
Reading: None
Assignment: None
9/1
Lecture: What is a digital library?
Reading: Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”
Assignment None
Week 2: Digital humanities research
9/6
Lecture: What does a digital humanities research project look like?
Reading: Amanda Shendruk, “Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters”
Assignment: None
9/8
Lecture: Part 1: Purchasing your website; Part 2: Setting up your website
Reading: None
Assignment: Set up your website
Lecture: What does a digital humanities research project look like?
Reading: Amanda Shendruk, “Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters”
Assignment: None
9/8
Lecture: Part 1: Purchasing your website; Part 2: Setting up your website
Reading: None
Assignment: Set up your website
Week 3: Scholarly digital humanities research
9/13
Lecture: Digital Rhetoric
Reading: Anne Francis Wysocki, “The Multiple Media of Texts” (Hard copies will be distributed in class)
Assignment: Blog post 1: Profile of a DH project
9/15
Lecture: How to find scholarly sources
Reading: Tara Menon, “Keeping Count: Direct Speech in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel” (access the article through the library)
Assignment: Blog post 2: Three possible research questions
Lecture: Digital Rhetoric
Reading: Anne Francis Wysocki, “The Multiple Media of Texts” (Hard copies will be distributed in class)
Assignment: Blog post 1: Profile of a DH project
9/15
Lecture: How to find scholarly sources
Reading: Tara Menon, “Keeping Count: Direct Speech in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel” (access the article through the library)
Assignment: Blog post 2: Three possible research questions
Week 4: Scholarly sources
9/20
Lecture: How to read an academic paper
Reading: One of the two articles listed in your assignment
Assignment: Blog post 3: Analysis of an academic paper
9/22
Lecture: Zotero
Reading: A scholarly article on your research topic (see assignment); CCSU Library’s LibGuide on Zotero (optional)
Assignment: Blog post 4: Summary of a scholarly source
Lecture: How to read an academic paper
Reading: One of the two articles listed in your assignment
Assignment: Blog post 3: Analysis of an academic paper
9/22
Lecture: Zotero
Reading: A scholarly article on your research topic (see assignment); CCSU Library’s LibGuide on Zotero (optional)
Assignment: Blog post 4: Summary of a scholarly source
Week 5: Primary sources
9/27
Lecture: Part 1: Artifacts and where to find them; Part 2: Adding artifacts to your website
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 1: First artifact
9/29
Lecture: Dublin Core metadata
Readings: Skim over the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set page
Assignment: Gallery entry 2: Second artifact
Lecture: Part 1: Artifacts and where to find them; Part 2: Adding artifacts to your website
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 1: First artifact
9/29
Lecture: Dublin Core metadata
Readings: Skim over the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set page
Assignment: Gallery entry 2: Second artifact
UNIT 2: METADATA
Week 6: Adding metadata to artifacts
10/4
Lecture: None
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 3: Third artifact
10/6
Lecture: Copyright
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Add Creative Commons statement to your website’s homepage and rights statements to your artifacts’ metadata
Lecture: None
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 3: Third artifact
10/6
Lecture: Copyright
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Add Creative Commons statement to your website’s homepage and rights statements to your artifacts’ metadata
Week 7: Ethics
10/11
Lecture: Why metadata matters
Readings: None, but it’s recommended you check out the articles discussed in the lecture video.
Assignment: None
10/13
Lecture: Ruja Benjamin, “A New Jim Code”
Readings: Sarah Brayne, “Relying on algorithms can further bias and inequality — but it doesn’t have to be that way” and Daniel Politi, “Facebook Apologizes After its AI Mislabels Video of Black Men as ‘Primates’”
Assignment: Blog post 6: Reflection on technology and inequality
Lecture: Why metadata matters
Readings: None, but it’s recommended you check out the articles discussed in the lecture video.
Assignment: None
10/13
Lecture: Ruja Benjamin, “A New Jim Code”
Readings: Sarah Brayne, “Relying on algorithms can further bias and inequality — but it doesn’t have to be that way” and Daniel Politi, “Facebook Apologizes After its AI Mislabels Video of Black Men as ‘Primates’”
Assignment: Blog post 6: Reflection on technology and inequality
Week 8: Text markup
10/18
Lecture: Working with metadata spreadsheets and controlled vocabularies
Readings: Check out w3schools, “Introduction to XML” and Johanna Drucker, Introduction to Digital Humanities 6A “Text Encoding”, p 46-48
Assignment: Blog post 5: Metadata spreadsheet
10/20
Lecture: A gentle introduction to XML and TEI and Working with the TEI Boilerplate
Readings: Check out the resources on the Women Writers Project and the website for the TEI Boilerplate for help completing today’s assignment.
Assignment: Gallery entry 4: TEI markup
Lecture: Working with metadata spreadsheets and controlled vocabularies
Readings: Check out w3schools, “Introduction to XML” and Johanna Drucker, Introduction to Digital Humanities 6A “Text Encoding”, p 46-48
Assignment: Blog post 5: Metadata spreadsheet
10/20
Lecture: A gentle introduction to XML and TEI and Working with the TEI Boilerplate
Readings: Check out the resources on the Women Writers Project and the website for the TEI Boilerplate for help completing today’s assignment.
Assignment: Gallery entry 4: TEI markup
Week 9: Audio and video markup
10/25
Lecture: None
Readings: None
Assignment: Blog post 7: Reflection on your TEI markup
10/27
Lecture: Indexing audiovisual materials
Readings: Check out the resources on the website for The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer. For additional information on how to complete your markup, consult the video tutorials on this page.
Assignment: Gallery entry 5: OHMS index
Lecture: None
Readings: None
Assignment: Blog post 7: Reflection on your TEI markup
10/27
Lecture: Indexing audiovisual materials
Readings: Check out the resources on the website for The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer. For additional information on how to complete your markup, consult the video tutorials on this page.
Assignment: Gallery entry 5: OHMS index
Week 10: Thesis statements
11/1
Lecture: TBD
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Blog post 8: Reflection on your OHMS index
11/3
Lecture: Thesis statements
Reading: The magic thesis sentence
Assignment: Blog post 9: Thesis statement
Lecture: TBD
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Blog post 8: Reflection on your OHMS index
11/3
Lecture: Thesis statements
Reading: The magic thesis sentence
Assignment: Blog post 9: Thesis statement
UNIT 3: VISUALIZING DATA
Week 11: Histograms and scatterplots
11/8
Lecture: Analyzing data visualizations and where to find data
Reading: “Three questions to ask yourself next time you see a graph, chart, or map” by Carson MacPherson-Krutsky. Also, we’ll be checking out Kaggle.com and Data.gov.
Assignment: Blog post 10: Analysis of a data visualization
11/10
Lecture: Creating bar graphs, histograms, or scatterplots in Excel
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 6: Histogram or scatterplot
Lecture: Analyzing data visualizations and where to find data
Reading: “Three questions to ask yourself next time you see a graph, chart, or map” by Carson MacPherson-Krutsky. Also, we’ll be checking out Kaggle.com and Data.gov.
Assignment: Blog post 10: Analysis of a data visualization
11/10
Lecture: Creating bar graphs, histograms, or scatterplots in Excel
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 6: Histogram or scatterplot
Week 12: Word frequencies
11/15
Lecture: Voyant Tools
Reading: Voyant Tools: An Introduction
Assignment: Blog post 11: Partial draft or outline
11/17
Lecture: Google N-Grams and HathiTrust Bookworm
Reading: None, but we’ll be working with The HathiTrust Bookworm
Assignment: Gallery entry 7: Word frequency visualization
Lecture: Voyant Tools
Reading: Voyant Tools: An Introduction
Assignment: Blog post 11: Partial draft or outline
11/17
Lecture: Google N-Grams and HathiTrust Bookworm
Reading: None, but we’ll be working with The HathiTrust Bookworm
Assignment: Gallery entry 7: Word frequency visualization
Week 13: Timelines and maps
11/22
Lecture: Timelines and StoryMaps
Reading: None, but we’ll be looking at these online tools: Timeline and StoryMap
Assignment: Gallery entry 8: Timeline or Map
11/24
Thanksgiving — Enjoy your holiday!
Lecture: Timelines and StoryMaps
Reading: None, but we’ll be looking at these online tools: Timeline and StoryMap
Assignment: Gallery entry 8: Timeline or Map
11/24
Thanksgiving — Enjoy your holiday!
Week 14: Sankeys, flowcharts, and trees
11/29
Lecture: Sankeys, trees, and flowcharts
Reading: None, but we will be working with SankeyMATIC, Lucidchart, and RelationshipTree
Assignment: Gallery entry 9: Fourth data visualization
12/1
Lecture: A brief history of data visualization
Reading: TBD
Assignment : Blog post 12: Complete rough draft
Lecture: Sankeys, trees, and flowcharts
Reading: None, but we will be working with SankeyMATIC, Lucidchart, and RelationshipTree
Assignment: Gallery entry 9: Fourth data visualization
12/1
Lecture: A brief history of data visualization
Reading: TBD
Assignment : Blog post 12: Complete rough draft
FINAL EXAM AND FINAL PAPER
Week 15: Workshopping your final paper
12/6
Lecture: Final thoughts
Reading: None
Assignment: Blog post 13: Profile of a DH project, take two
Lecture: Final thoughts
Reading: None
Assignment: Blog post 13: Profile of a DH project, take two
Tuesday, 12/6 is the last day assignments will be accepted for credit. All assignments must be visible on your site by noon on Tuesday 12/6
12/8
Lecture: None
Reading: “Workshop is not for you” by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Assignment: Peer critiques
Week 16: Final exam and final paper
The final exam will be held on Blackboard from 8am on Monday, 12/12 until 5pm on Wednesday, 12/14
The final paper is due by noon on Thursday, 12/15
Here is a list of key terms that you may use as a study guide as you prepare for the final exam