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Date
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Topic |
Reading Due |
Related "Texts" |
Assignment Due |
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Thur 8/26 |
Introduction
to Digital Humanities
|
- What is Digital Humanities?
- What is Print Culture?
- What is a "text?"
- What is "digital?"
- What is "literature?"
- What are multi-modal essays and visual narratives?
Handouts
Syllabus
Schedule &
Policies (pdf)
Student Questionnaire
Introductory Quotes
|
Pulp Fiction as Typography (video)
Kia Soul Hamsters (video)
SixthSense Technology (from Priya)
Our social
networking selves (images) |
Student Questionnaire
|
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Tues 8/31 |
Say
Hello to Your Room & Social Networking |
In-Class
-
Intro to the Incubator Classroom, Moodle, Teamspot,
laptops, furniture
-
Intro to Twitter & Digital Humanists Lists (esp
Dan Cohen's)
Handouts
Twitter Assignment |
Twitter Digital Humanities Lists
Our Class Twitter List
Some Twitter Help
"Twitter
in Plain English" (video)
Twitter Tutorial for Newbies (video)
Twitter Tutorial (video) |
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|
Thur 9/2 |
Print
Culture & Materiality of the Text |
"Technologies of Writing," Matthew Kirschenbaum
"Man of Letters: Matthew Carter�s Life in Type
Design," New Yorker, Alec Wilkinson
(pdf)
"Why I Don�t Read Books
Much Anymore," Morris Freedman
"A Fair(y) Use Tale," Eric Faden (video)
"The Library of Babel," Jorge Luis Borges (pdf)
Songs of Innocence &
Experience,
Blake Archive
In
Class
(video)
The Printing Press (images)
|
Medieval HelpDesk
(Video) (moved from 8/31)
The
Printed Book in the West since 1800 (reader)
A
Companion to the History of the Book
(electronic
version for SJSU students & faculty)
Emily Dickinson Archive (ordering your own edition)
Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton
"The
Making of a Granta Cover"
"Will
the Book Survive Generation Text?"
"Is
Print Dead?" (on the industry -- see image below)
|
Intro to
Moodle on your own (see 8/31 email)
Post 350-word Digital Autobiography to
Moodle
Profile(moved
from 8/31)
|
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Tues 9/7 |
Visit to Special Collections |
Meet
on 5th Flr of King Library in Special
Collections to touch the stuff! |
|
Blog
Review of Print Material (500 words) due Wed by
4pm |
|
Thur
9/9 |
Incorporating Aberrations into Narrative & Print Culture |
House
of Leaves (1-200)
Handouts
Digital Literacy (ways of reading) |
Join
House of Leaves Facebook page (?)
Kenneth
Patchen & Typography
http://www.frigatezine.com/essay/treasure/etr01pa3.html
http://www.connectotel.com/patchen/patchtim.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Patchen
"The
Medium is the Medium," NYT |
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Tues 9/14 |
|
House
of Leaves (201-417) |
"General
Course on Linguistics," Saussure (signified &
signifier) |
Blog Reading Response (500 words)
due by 10am |
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Thur 9/16 |
|
House of
Leaves (finish it & look at Appendices)
Discussion
Jameson on the Bonaventure (brief excerpt in print
handout; see longer excerpt here as
RTF file)
BBC on the Bonaventure (video)
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|
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Tues 9/21 |
Literary Archives & E-Books: Revising Literature for the
Digital World |
"Google and the Future
of Books," Robert Darnton,
New York Review of Books
"The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the
Digital World," Clifford Lynch
Johanna Drucker, "The
Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-Space,"
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
"Digitizing the Gutenberg Bible," NPR (podcast)
Bertrand Gervais, "Is
There a Text on this Screen?"
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
Ken Price, "Electronic Scholarly Editions,"
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
John A. Walsh,
"Multimedia & Multi-Tasking: A Survey of Digital
Resources for Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies,"
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
Handouts
Definitions leading to archive |
"Enacting
Change: A Study of the Implementation of E-Readers . . ."
Reimagining the Book: iPad & Alice
Digital Humanities & the Undergrad (video by an English
major)
IDEO & Future of the Book (video) |
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|
Thur 9/23 |
Archives & Projects |
Choose 1:
&
Forget Me Not
Archive
Internet Library of Early Journals
Whitman Archive
The Book Cover Archive
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Alice�s Adventures
Under Ground
(CD-Rom)
Samuel Johnson: A
Dictionary of the English Language
(DVD-Rom)
Turning the Pages
(CD & online)
MITH's Vintage Computers
(added 9/13/10)
Jane Austen's MSS
(added 9/14/10)
Any others to suggest?
Handout
Discuss Videos & Podcasts Presentation assignment |
Emily Dickinson Archive
Definition of "archive" by the Blake Archive |
Blog Review of Archive (500 words)
due by 10am |
|
Tues 9/28 |
Using
Tools to Take us Farther |
The Babbage Engine
"Where Computer Science and Cultural Studies
Collide," Matthew Kirschenbaum
"Literature to Infinity," Inside Higher Ed,
Scott McLemee
"Algorithmic Criticism,"
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies, Stephen Ramsay
"Quantitative Analysis and Literary Studies,"
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies, David
Hoover
"Literary
Alzheimer�s,"
New York Times Magazine
Special Guest
Prof. Stephen Ramsay, Univ of Nebraska (iChat) |
Extra for Prof. Ramsay
literatura munduna (Prof. Ramsay's blog)
Anthologize Tool Post
Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools (23 min
video)
Writing as Programming as Writing (14 min video)
More suggested by your colleagues
Datamining Shakespeare
Representing Literature as Data
|
Blog Review of Tool (chosen from
DIRT) (500 words)
due by 10am |
|
Thur 9/30 |
New
Media Literature |
|
Web 2.0: The
Machine is Us/ing Us (Video)
(moved from 8/31) |
Addendum to Tool Review due Wed 4pm |
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Tues 10/5 |
Post-Narrative Text (?) |
"Handholding, Remixing and the Instant Replay: New
Narratives in a Post-Narrative World," Carolyn Guertin,
A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
Special
Guest
Prof. Carolyn Guertin, Univ. of Texas |
Rhizomes (Deleuze/Guttari)
Cyborg Manifesto (Haraway)
Patchwork Girl (Jackson)
Great Expectations (Acker) |
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|
Thur 10/7 |
Born
Digital Literature |
Born Magazine of Art & Literature (choose 1)
Vol. I,
Electronic Literature
Collection
Simon Faithful, Adelaide
Fa�ade: A One-Act Interactive Drama
Grotesque, A Gothic Epic
Selections from New Media Reader CD-Rom of
born digital literature
Eastgate Publishers of Hypertexts (review their
site)
Secret Technology:
NetArt/DigitalPoetry/VideoOddities, Jason
Nelson (added by speaker,
9/8/10)
Dreaming Methods,
Andy Campbell
(added by speaker, 9/8/10)
Special Guest
Prof. Lori Emerson, Univ. of Colorado (iChat) |
Nightingale's Playground
Article about Nightingale's Playground
Prof.
Emerson's References
List of E-Poetry
Directory of E-Literature
Dimension is night (Nelson)
Translation
Futurist Cinema
The House (Flanagan)The
Jews Daughter
White Faced Bromeliads
BP Nichols video
Apple iie image
Acid Free Bits (preservation
of e-lit)
|
|
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Tues 10/12 |
|
|
More on E-Literature
E-Literature Explained (video)
Inventing New Conventions for Digital Storytelling
(video)
Show n'Tell
inMediasRes (collaborative scholarship)
Hacking the Academy (Humanities & technology)
Frontiers in Spatial Humanities on geospatial
scholarship (video)
Litmap Project (scholarly project using GIS) |
Review of Born Digital Literature (500 words)
due by 10am -- add addendum by
10am on Thursday |
|
Thur 10/14 |
Presentations on
Videos, Podcasts, Blogs & Readings |
|
Addendum
to Tuesday's post
Report on
videos, podcasts, blogs & readings (500 words) due by 10am |
|
Tues 10/19 |
No Class Meeting today
Follow tweets from
state of
technologies (digital, notational, etc) currently used
for documenting and preserving dance or take a look at the
raw notes in Google Docs (shared w/everyone)
(changed 10/12/10) |
|
Thur 10/21 |
Presentations on
Videos, Podcasts, Blogs & Readings
Handout
Discuss Adaptation & Visualizing Presentations
assignment
Distribute Steve Jones pre-print article in class |
GetLamp: A Documentary about Adventures in Text (DVD) |
Change: everyone post about your presentation today
Report on
videos, podcasts, blogs & readings (500 words) due by 10am |
|
Tues 10/26 |
Video Games
as Literature? |
"The Code is Not the Text," John Cayley
(contd from previous week)
"On
Comics," Scott McCloud (video)
"Anticipating Spore" from The Meaning of Video
Games, Steven E. Jones (password
protected)
"Performing the Social Text, or what I learned from
playing Spore," pre-print of forthcoming
publication in Common Knowledge 17:2 (Spring
2011) -- distributed in paper form
"Second
Life, Video Games and the Social Text," PMLA
2009, Steven E. Jones (pdf)
Zone of Influence: A Game Studies Blog
(excerpt), Matt Kirschenbaum
Preface, Procedural Rhetoric & Purposes of Persuasion
chapters,
The Expressive Power of Video Games, Ian Bogost (available
as digital book through King Library)
Gamer Theory on If:Book, McKenzie Wark
|
The VideoGame Text Blog |
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|
Thur 10/28 |
Gaming
& Adaptation |
SpaceWar, 1st video game, New Media
Reader CD Rom (in class)
Blithedale Romance Game Adaptation, Liz Losh
Game, Game, Game and Again Game,
Jason Nelson
Ad
Verbum, Nick Montfort
Johann
Huizinga "Homo
Ludens" Chapter 1 (added by
our guest)
Roger
Callois "Man,
Play and Games" Chapter 1 pp 3-11
(added by our guest)
Special
Guest
Prof. James Morgan,
Digital Media Art,
CADRE Lab, SJSU |
Perhaps
collaborate with some of his production students?
CADRE's Facebook Page
"Don
Draper Says 'What'" (video) |
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|
Tues 11/2 |
Presenting
Adaptations |
|
Presentation
on adaptation idea
Blog Report on
adaptation (1000 words) due by 10am |
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Thur
11/4 |
Visualizing
your Adaptations
Discuss Final Project assignment |
|
Presentation of images for your adaptation
Post
images/link on
Moodle with explanation (500 words)
due by 10am |
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Tues 11/9 |
Blogging & FaceBooking as Social Commentary or
Literature? |
"Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the
Microscope," First Monday, Bernardo A.
Huberman, et al
Clive Thompson, "I�m So Digitally Close to You:
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy," New York
Times
Aimee Morrison, "Blogs and Blogging: Text and
Practice,"A Companion to Digital
Literary Studies
|
Big Brother is Watching (blog) |
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Thur 11/11 |
Veteran�s Day � No Class Meeting |
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Tues 11/16 |
Twitterati / Tweeps Presentation
(moved from 11/18) |
|
Report on Twitter (1000 words)
due by 10am on
Moodle |
|
Thur 11/18 |
Twitterati / Tweeps Presentation
(moved from 11/23) |
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|
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Tues 11/23 |
|
Special
Guest
Prof. David Silver, Univ. of San Francisco
(Skype)
(moved from 11/16) |
|
Post
on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Flickr as Social
Networking (500 words) due by 10am on
Moodle |
|
Thur 11/25 |
Thanksgiving - No Class Meeting |
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Tues 11/30 |
Exploring the Possibilities |
Sample
Student Projects from Past Classes
Ecclesiastical Proust Archive
Using CIA's tools
"What
Is Visualization?" Lev Manovich
"Mapping
Time," Jeremy Douglass & Lev Manovich (video)
Panel Discussion about "Mapping Time" (video)
Special
Guest
Dr. Jeff Drouin, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champagne |
"Framing
Digital Humanities: The Role of New Media in Humanities
Scholarship," Oya Reiger
|
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Thur 12/2 |
Dissemination:
Multi-Modal Essays & Visual Narratives |
Special
Guest
Prof.
Jamie Skye Bianco, Univ of Pittsburgh
|
|
Moodle
Review of video (500-750 words)
due by 10am |
|
Tues 12/7 |
Final
Project Presentations/Workshop |
"Does
Book Art Have to Resemble a Book?"
"Wings: Making the Field Notes"(video)
"Linotype:
The Film" teaser (video)
Typestar (renders lyrics similar to Pulp Fiction
Typography) |
Final
Project |
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Thur 12/9 |
Final
Project Presentations/Workshop |
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Final
Project |
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Final Exam Meeting:
December 17th, 9:45am-12pm
Final Projects Due |
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Some final thoughts & stats:
Twitter Archive for #engl190 hashtag
Our Twitter usage in class
Reflections on the IC & DH (Moodle) |
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