Arguments & Algorithms

October 22, 2024

In-Class Agenda

Schmidt, Benjamin M. “Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 546–55. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Use the JSTOR link for PDF & Hypothesis https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.51 or use the Manifold Platform link https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/557c453b-4abb-48ce-8c38-a77e24d3f0bd.
Mullen, Lincoln. “Isn’t it obvious?” lincolnmullen.com, January 10, 2018. https://lincolnmullen.com/blog/isnt-it-obvious/.
Lincoln, Matthew. “Confabulation in the humanities.” matthewlincoln.net, March 21, 2015. https://matthewlincoln.net/2015/03/21/confabulation-in-the-humanities.html.

Koeser, Rebecca Sutton. “Trusting Others to ‘Do the Math.’” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 40, no. 4 (2015): 376-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2016.1165454.
Weingart, Scott B. “Argument Clinic.” scottbot.net, July 26, 2017. https://scottbot.net/argument-clinic/.
Thomas, Amber. Shaping Ideas into Data Stories [Speaker Series w/ Amber Thomas from The Pudding], 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Awc4HxDK0.

The Syuzhet Package by Matthew Jockers https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/syuzhet/vignettes/syuzhet-vignette.html.
Annie Swafford “Problems with the Syuzhet Package.” Anglophile in Academia: Annie Swafford’s Blog (blog), March 2, 2015. https://annieswafford.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/syuzhet/.
Da, Nan Z. “The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies.” Critical Inquiry 45, no. 3 (March 2019): 601–39. https://doi.org/10.1086/702594.
Robertson, Stephen, and Lincoln Mullen. “Arguing with Digital History: Patterns of Historical Interpretation (Annotated Version).” Journal of Social History 54, no. 4 (2021): 1005–22. https://doi.org/10.31835/ma.2021.01.
“Arguing with Digital History Working Group.” Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, November 13, 2017. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.22532.
Mullen, Lincoln A. America’s Public Bible: A Commentary. Stanford University Press, 2023. https://americaspublicbible.supdigital.org.
Ramsay, Stephen. Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. University of Illinois Press, 2011. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcmrr.