Histories of Culture & Computing
How and when did we first start representing culture as data?
In-Class Agenda
Assigned Materials
- Kahle, Brewster. “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” The American Archivist 70, no. 1 (2007): 23–31. Available on Canvas.
- Hennessey, Amardeep Singh and Kate. “African American Periodical Poetry (1900-1928) – Responsible Datasets in Context.” Responsible Datasets in Context, July 1, 2024. https://www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/posts/african-american-periodical-poetry/aa-periodical-poetry.html?tab=data-essay.
- Ding, Jennifer, Jan Diehm, and Michelle McGhee. “Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image.” The Pudding, October 2021. https://pudding.cool/2021/10/lenna.
Additional Materials
- McPherson, Tara. “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?: Or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, 139–60. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv8hq.12.
- Besser, Howard. “The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries.” In A Companion to Digital Humanities. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470999875.ch36.
- Milic, Louis T. “The Next Step.” Computers and the Humanities 1, no. 1 (1966): 3–6. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30199191.