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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). 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. Polity.
Burdick, A., Drucker, J., Lunenfeld, P., Presner, T., & Schnapp, J. (2012). Humanities to digital humanities. In Digital humanities (pp. 1–26). The MIT 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. HarperCollins.

Week 3: Making Sense of Digital Networks

Castells, M. (2000). Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society. British Journal of Sociology 51(1), 5–24.
Hayles, K. (2012). How we think: Transforming power and digital technologies. In David Berry (Ed.), Understanding digital humanities (pp. 42–66). SAGE.
Horowitz, S. (2024, November 26.) Guide to writing formal academic papers.
Wagenmakers, E. (2009, April 1). Teaching graduate students how to write clearly. Association for Psychological Science.

Week 4: What Are Digital Ethics?

Smithies, J. (2017). The ethics of production. In The digital humanities and the digital modern (pp. 203–236). 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).  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). 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). University of Minnesota Press.
Guiliano, J., & Heitman, C. (2017). Indigenizing the digital humanities: Challenges, questions, and research opportunities. In DH.

Unit 6: Algorithmic Cultures 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.
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

No assigned readings.

Week 8: A Critical Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Shadbolt, N., 2022. “From So Simple a Beginning”: Species of Artificial Intelligence. Daedalus, 151(2), 28-42.
Agre, Philip. (2024, November 12). The soul gained and lost: Artificial intelligence as a philosophical project. Phil Agre's Home Page, UCLA. https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/.  Originally published as Constructions of the mind: Artificial intelligence and the humanities (1995), Stanford Humanities Review 4(2), 1-19.

Week 9: Machine Learning, Bias, and Explainable AI

Joque, J., 2022. Automating knowledge. In Revolutionary mathematics: Artificial intelligence, statistics and the logic of capitalism. Verso Books.
Berry, D.M., 2023. The Explainability Turn. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 17(2).

Week 10: Whose (Artificial) Intelligence? Gender and AI

Wacjman, J., & Young, E. (2023). Feminism confronts AI: The gender relations of digitalization. In J. Browne, S. Cave, E. Drage, & K. McInerney [Eds.]. Feminist AI: Critical perspectives on algorithms, data, and intelligent machines (pp. 47-64). Oxford University Press. 
Browne, J. (2023). AI and structural injustice: A feminist perspective. In J. Browne, S. Cave, E. Drage, & K. McInerney [Eds.]. Feminist AI: Critical perspectives on algorithms, data, and intelligent machines  (pp. 328-346). Oxford University Press.

Week 11: AI in Education: Opportunities, Risks, and Strategies for the Future

Zembylas, M.(2023). A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism. Learning, Media and Technology, 48(1), 25-37.
Knox, J., Williamson, B. and Bayne, S. (2020). Machine behaviourism: Future visions of ‘learnification’and ‘datafication’across humans and digital technologies. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(1), 31-45.

Week 12: Augmented Medicine: AI and the Medical Humanities

Ostherr, K. (2022). Artificial intelligence and medical humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities, 43(2), 211-232.
Dionne, É. (2020). Algorithmic mediation, the digital era, and healthcare practices: A feminist new materialist analysis. Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition, 12(1).
Briganti, G., & Le Moine, O. (2020). Artificial intelligence in medicine: Today and tomorrow. Frontiers in medicine, 7, p.509744.

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.
Cocq, C. (2022). Revisiting the digital humanities through the lens of Indigenous studies—or how to question the cultural blindness of our technologies and practices. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(2), 333-344. 
Flores, L. (2021) Third-generation electronic literature. In D. Grigar, & J. O’Sullivan (Eds.), Electronic literature as digital humanities. Bloomsbury.
Risam, R. (2023). Where is the nation in digital humanities, revisited. Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities, pp.19-27.