MAIS 623: Introduction to Trends in New Media: Digital Humanities Report a Broken Link

Week 1: What Is Digital Humanities?


Rosenbloom, P. (2016). Toward a conceptual framework for the digital humanities. In M. Terrass, J. Nyhan, and E. Vanhoutte (Eds.), Defining digital humanities: A reader (pp. 219–236). Burlington, VT: Ashgate. (Scroll to page 219.)
Berry, D., & Fagerjord, A. (2017). On the way to computational thinking. In Digital humanities: Knowledge and critique in a digital age. Malden, MA: Polity.
Burdick, A., Drucker, J., Lunenfeld, P., Presner, T., & Schnapp, J. (2012). Humanities to digital humanities. In Digital humanities (pp. 1–26). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Drucker, J. (2016). At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities. In R. Simanowski (Ed.), Digital humanities and digital media: Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy. London: Open Humanities Press.

Week 2: Introduction to the Internet


Leiner, B., Vinton, G., Cerf, D., Clark, R., Kahn, Kleinrock, L., Lynch, D., Postel, J., Roberts, L., Wolff, S. (1997). Brief history of the Internet. Internet Society.
Lanier, J. (2014). From above: Misusing big data to become ridiculous. In Who owns the future? Simon & Schuster.
Harari, Y. (2016). Chapter 11: The data religion. In Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow. New York: HarperCollins.

Week 3: Making Sense of Digital Networks


Lanier, J. (2010). “Missing persons,” “An Apocalypse of self-abdication,” and “I am a contrarian loop,” Chapters 1, 2, and 12 of You are not a gadget: A manifesto. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Castells, M. (2000). Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society. British Journal of Sociology 51(1), 5–24.
Strauss, V. (2012, January 20). A guide to writing an academic paper. The Washington Post.
Wagenmakers, E. (2009, April 1). Teaching graduate students how to write clearly. Association for Psychological Science.
Hayles, K. (2012). How we think: Transforming power and digital technologies. In David Berry (Ed.), Understanding digital humanities (pp. 42–66)Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Week 4: What Are Digital Ethics?


Smithies, J. (2017). The ethics of production. In The digital humanities and the digital modern (pp. 203–236). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
McPherson, T. (2012). Why are the digital humanities so white? or Thinking the histories of race and computation. In M. Gold (Ed.), Debates in the digital humanities (pp. 139–160). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Week 5: Critical Approaches in the Digital Humanities


Risam, R. (2018). What passes for human? Undermining the universal subject in digital humanities. In E. Losh & J. Wernimont (Eds.), Bodies of information: Intersectional feminism and digital humanities (pp. 39–56). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Aiyegbusi, B. (2018). Decolonizing digital humanities: Africa in perspective. In E. Losh & J. Wernimont (Eds.), Bodies of information: Intersectional feminism and digital humanities (pp. 434–446). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Guiliano, J., & Heitman, C. (2017). Indigenizing the digital humanities: Challenges, questions, and research opportunities. In DH.
Hamraie, A. (2018). Mapping access: Digital humanities, disability justice, and sociospatial practice. American Quarterly, 70(3), 455–482.

Unit 6: Encountering the Computational “Other”: Algorithms, AI, and the Humanities


Seaver, N. (2019). Knowing algorithms. In J. Vertesi & D. Ribes (Eds.), digital STS: A field guide for science and technology studies (pp. 412–422). Princeton University Press. 
Lomborg, S., & Kapsch, P. (2020). Decoding algorithms. Media, Culture & Society, 42(5), 745–761.
Smithies, J. (2017). Artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and the automation of labour. In The digital humanities and the digital modern (pp. 79–112). New York: Palgave Macmillan.
Ramsay, S. (2011). ’Patacomputing. In Reading machines: Toward an algorithmic crticism (pp. 69–82). University of Illinois.
Videos
du Sautoy, M. (2015). The secret rules of modern living: Algorithms. BBC. (58 mins)
Slavin, K. (July 2011). How algorithms shape our world. TED Talks. (15 mins)
Suggested Reading
Schmidt, B. (2016). Do digital humanists need to understand algorithms? In M. Gold & L. Klein (Eds.), Debates in the digital humanities 2016. Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Week 7: Reading Week


Week 8: Digital Pedagogies


Hadlington, L. (2017). Technology and education. In Cybercognition: Brain, behaviour and the digital world. London, UK: SAGE.
Leander, K. (2017). Composing with old and new media: Toward a parallel pedagogy. In V. Carrington & M. Robinson (Eds.), Digital literacies: Social learning and classroom practices (pp. 147–164). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Risam, R. (2019). Postcolonial digital pedagogy. In New digital worlds: Postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy (pp. 89–114). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Week 9: Thinking with Machines – The Dark Side


Nicholas C. (2008, July 1). Is Google making us stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains. Atlantic Magazine
Harris, T. (2016, July 27). The slot machine in your pocket. Speigel Online.
Morgans, J. (2017, May 19). The secret ways social media is built for addiction. Vice Magazine
Bavelier, D., & Green, C. (2011). Neuroscience: Browsing and the brain. Nature, 470.7332, 37–38.
Klein, E. (2020, July 1). How technology literally changes our brains. Vox.
Crogan, P., & Kinsley, S. (2012). Paying attention: Towards a critique of the attention economy. Culture Machine, 13, 1–29.
Videos
Harris, T. (2014, December). “How better tech could protect us from distraction.” TED Talk. 
Carr, N. (nd). The neuroscience of Internet addiction. Big Think.

Week 10: Thinking with Machines – Computational Methods, Digital Design & Research Through Design (RtD) in the Digital Humanities


Crane, G. (2006). What do you do with a million books? DLib Magazine, 12(3).
Ramsey, S. (2008). Algorithmic criticism. In S. Schreibman & R. Siemens (Eds.), A Companion to digital literary studies. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. 
Tognazzini, B. (2014, March 5). First principles of interaction design. AskTOG.
Schofield, T., Whitelaw, M., & Kirk, D. (2017). Research through design and digital humanities in practice: What, how and who in an archive research project. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(suppl_1), i103–i120.
Videos
McCandless, D. (August 2010). “The beauty of data visualization,” TED.
Frayling, C. “Research through design evolution.” A film by Abigail Durrant and James Price for Research through Design (RTD) 2015 Conference.

Week 11: Electronic Research Inside and Outside the Library System


Berry, D., & Fagerjord, A. (2017). Digital methods and tools. In Digital humanities: Knowledge and critique in a digital age. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Burdick, A., Drucker, J., & Lunenfeld, P. (2012). Emerging methods and genres. In Digital humanities (pp. 29–72). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Week 12: Attention, Gamification, and New Digital Literacies


Kleinmann, S. (2014, February 24). Digital humanities as gamified scholarship. scottkleinman.net
Matei, S. (2009). Visible past: An attention and location aware learning and discovery environment for digital humanities. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing3(1–2), 163–174.

Week 13: The Future of Digital Humanities


Manovich, L. (2011). Trending: The promises and the challenges of big social data. In M. Gold (Ed.), Debates in the digital humanities. The University of Minnesota Press.
Davidson. C. (2011). Humanities 2.0: Promise, perils, predictions. In M. Gold (Ed.), Debates in the digital humanities. The University of Minnesota Press.
Liu, A. (2012). Where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities? In M. Gold (Ed.), Debates in the digital humanities (pp. 490–510). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scroll to page 190.)
Flores, L. (2021) Third-generation electronic literature. In D. Grigar, & J. O’Sullivan (Eds.), Electronic literature as digital humanities. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Hayles, K. (2016). How we think: Transforming power and digital technologies. In R. Simonowski (Ed.), Digital humanities and digital media conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy (pp. 265–272). London, UK: Open Humanities Press.