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.
8/29 – 9-21
UNIT 1: HUMANITIES AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Week 1: Introductions
8/29
Lecture: Example video
Reading: None
Assignment: None
8/31
Lecture: None (library tour)
Reading: Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”
Assignment None
Lecture: Example video
Reading: None
Assignment: None
8/31
Lecture: None (library tour)
Reading: Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”
Assignment None
Week 2: Digital humanities research
9/5
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
9/7
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
9/7
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
9/12
Lecture: Digital Rhetoric
Reading: Anne Francis Wysocki, “The Multiple Media of Texts” (available on Blackboard)
Assignment: Blog post 1: Profile of a DH project
9/14
Lecture: Part 1: What are primary and secondary sources? Part 2: 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” (available on Blackboard)
Assignment: Blog post 1: Profile of a DH project
9/14
Lecture: Part 1: What are primary and secondary sources? Part 2: 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
9/19
Lecture: How to read an academic paper (If you attended class on 9/14 and feel that you understood the Tara Menon article, this lecture is optional)
Reading: One of the two articles listed in your assignment
Assignment: Blog post 3: Analysis of an academic paper
9/21
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 (If you attended class on 9/14 and feel that you understood the Tara Menon article, this lecture is optional)
Reading: One of the two articles listed in your assignment
Assignment: Blog post 3: Analysis of an academic paper
9/21
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
9/26 – 10/26
UNIT 2: METADATA
Week 5: Primary sources
9/26
Lecture: Part 1: Artifacts and where to find them; Part 2: Adding artifacts to your website
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 1: First artifact
9/28
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
9/28
Lecture: Dublin Core metadata
Readings: Skim over the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set page
Assignment: Gallery entry 2: Second artifact
Week 6: Adding metadata to artifacts
10/3
Lecture: Why metadata matters
Reading: Elon Musk’s unsolicited idea for Taiwan; New species of coconut headed sloth; Amazon suicide kits have led to teen deaths
Assignment: Gallery entry 3: Third artifact
10/5
Lecture: Working with metadata spreadsheets and controlled vocabularies
Reading: None
Assignment: Blog post 5: Metadata spreadsheet
Lecture: Why metadata matters
Reading: Elon Musk’s unsolicited idea for Taiwan; New species of coconut headed sloth; Amazon suicide kits have led to teen deaths
Assignment: Gallery entry 3: Third artifact
10/5
Lecture: Working with metadata spreadsheets and controlled vocabularies
Reading: None
Assignment: Blog post 5: Metadata spreadsheet
Week 7: Ethics
10/10
Lecture: Copyright
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Add Creative Commons statement to your website’s homepage and rights statements to your artifacts’ metadata
10/12
Lecture: Ruja Benjamin, “A New Jim Code” (Watch the first 46 minutes. The last 15 minutes is Q&A and is optional.)
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: Copyright
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Add Creative Commons statement to your website’s homepage and rights statements to your artifacts’ metadata
10/12
Lecture: Ruja Benjamin, “A New Jim Code” (Watch the first 46 minutes. The last 15 minutes is Q&A and is optional.)
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
10/17
Lecture: A gentle introduction to XML and TEI and Working with the TEI Boilerplate
Readings: Read w3schools, “Introduction to XML” and Johanna Drucker, Introduction to Digital Humanities 6A “Text Encoding”, p 46-48.
Take a look at (but you do not need to read thoroughly) the Women Writers Project and the website for the TEI Boilerplate
Assignment: Gallery entry 4: TEI markup
10/19
Lecture: None
Readings: None
Assignment: Blog post 7: Reflection on your TEI markup
Lecture: A gentle introduction to XML and TEI and Working with the TEI Boilerplate
Readings: Read w3schools, “Introduction to XML” and Johanna Drucker, Introduction to Digital Humanities 6A “Text Encoding”, p 46-48.
Take a look at (but you do not need to read thoroughly) the Women Writers Project and the website for the TEI Boilerplate
Assignment: Gallery entry 4: TEI markup
10/19
Lecture: None
Readings: None
Assignment: Blog post 7: Reflection on your TEI markup
Week 9: Audio and video markup
10/24
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
10/26
Lecture: TBD
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Blog post 8: Reflection on your OHMS index
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
10/26
Lecture: TBD
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Blog post 8: Reflection on your OHMS index
10/31 – 12/14
UNIT 3: VISUALIZING DATA
Week 10: Histograms and scatterplots
10/31
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 9: Analysis of a data visualization
11/2
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 9: Analysis of a data visualization
11/2
Lecture: Creating bar graphs, histograms, or scatterplots in Excel
Reading: None
Assignment: Gallery entry 6: Histogram or scatterplot
Week 11: Word frequencies
11/7
Lecture: Voyant Tools and Advanced Voyant Tools with GutenTag (optional)
Reading: Voyant Tools: An Introduction
Assignment: Blog post 10: Thesis statement
11/9
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 and Advanced Voyant Tools with GutenTag (optional)
Reading: Voyant Tools: An Introduction
Assignment: Blog post 10: Thesis statement
11/9
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 12: Timelines and maps
11/14
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
11/16
Lecture: TBD
Reading: TBD
Assignment: None
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
11/16
Lecture: TBD
Reading: TBD
Assignment: None
Week 13: Catching up
11/21
Lecture: None
Reading: None
Assignment: Blog post 11: Partial draft or outline
Note: This is the last day that past assignments will be accepted for credit. If any of the first eight gallery items and first eleven blog posts are not visible on your site by the end of the day on 11/21, you will earn a ZERO for the assignment.
11/23
Thanksgiving — Enjoy your holiday!
Lecture: None
Reading: None
Assignment: Blog post 11: Partial draft or outline
Note: This is the last day that past assignments will be accepted for credit. If any of the first eight gallery items and first eleven blog posts are not visible on your site by the end of the day on 11/21, you will earn a ZERO for the assignment.
11/23
Thanksgiving — Enjoy your holiday!
Week 14: Sankeys, flowcharts, and trees
11/28
Lecture: Sankeys, trees, and flowcharts
Reading: None, but we will be working with SankeyMATIC, Lucidchart, and RelationshipTree
Assignment: Gallery entry 9: Fourth data visualization
11/30
Lecture: A brief history of data visualization
Reading: None
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
11/30
Lecture: A brief history of data visualization
Reading: None
Assignment : Blog post 12: Complete rough draft
Week 15: Workshopping your final paper
12/5
Lecture: Artificial Intelligence
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Blog post 13: ChatGPT
12/7
Lecture: Final thoughts
Reading: “Workshop is not for you” by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Assignment: Peer critiques
Lecture: Artificial Intelligence
Reading: TBD
Assignment: Blog post 13: ChatGPT
12/7
Lecture: Final thoughts
Reading: “Workshop is not for you” by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Assignment: Peer critiques
The final paper is due by noon on Thursday, 12/14