Week 13 (Nov 14, 16, 18):
Monday: Digital Humanities and Public-Facing Humanities
- Read:
- Tim Hitchcock, “Academic History Writing and the Headache of Big Data”
- Explore: The Politics of Technology, or the Concerns of Digital Humanists
- Public Participation: History Engine; PhilaPlace; History Pin; The Johnny Cash Project
- Historical Preservation: Streets of Paris photographed by Charles Marville in 19C and Martin Krieger today; Google’s Street Art Project; China Local
- Historical Reconstruction: Digital Roman Forum and Rome Reborn ; Virtual Morgantown ; Virtual Harlem ; the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair ; King’s Visualization Laboratory @ King’s College London
- Recommended:
- Computer, Visualization, and History, Ch.4 (“Virtual History”)
- Joe Dempsey, et al., “Pudding Lane: Recreating Seventeenth-Century London,” Journal of Digital Humanities, 1 (2014) (optional)
Study Guide:
This week we will start wrapping up our course by reflecting on the relationship between digital technologies, the humanities, and public engagement and by planning for your final capstone project.
- Hitchcock expresses some concerns over the use of digital technologies in the humanities. What are their concerns? According to him, how should humanists address these concerns?
- Explore the websites and consider whether these websites successfully addressed Hitchcock’s concerns with digital technologies . Focus on the site assigned to you below and prepare to share your thoughts in class.
- History Engine: Alex, Raymond
- PhilaPlace: CJ
- History Pin: Irene, Quinn
- The Johnny Cash Project: Charlotte
- Streets of Paris photographed by Charles Marville in 19C and Martin Krieger today: Matt, Rade
- Google’s Street Art Project: Nozomi
- Digital Roman Forum and Rome Reborn: Olivia S.
- Virtual Morgantown: Tim
- the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair: Olivia L.
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Wednesday: Final Project Planning
- Those who have not presented on your Neatline Project will give your presentations today.
- We will also start discussing the final project today.
Friday: Peer Review Workshop
Writing Assignment 3: Second draft due before class.
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