About DH

Why are we blogging?

• transparency
• collaboration
• revisionism
• extensibility

Overview: In the 1950s, C.P. Snow described the emergence of two cultures, science/technology and the humanities, and he lamented the “polarization” between them as “sheer loss to us all” (12). Although the distinction described by Snow has in many ways persisted to the present day, humanities scholars across the globe have begun finding innovative ways to cross the cultural barriers and to apply computing technologies to traditional humanities inquiry.*

In this course we’ll explore some of the new ways humanists are bridging the cultural divide by applying technologically-driven methods within the humanities.

Course Topics:

1. Defining Our Terms: what is DH?
2. DH Deliverables (projects, archives, tools, editions, etc.)
3. Digital Ubiquity (are we really going all digital?)
4. Copyright and Privacy
5. Being ‘Born Digital’
6. Text Encoding
7. Crowdsourcing
8. Text Analysis
9. Visualizations
10. Language and Technology
11. Social Interactions in a Digital Era
12. Teaching and Learning in a Digital Era (is Mark Bauerlein right?)

*thanks to my colleague Patrick Juola (Duquesne) for providing the inspiration for this description while visiting BU as my invited DH guest lecturer; further acknowledgments: the source for the course’s banner image can be found at: Washington University Libraries