IS310 - Culture As Data Spring 2026
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January
Jan 20: Why Represent Culture As Data?
Schedule Overview
January
Jan 20: Why Represent Culture As Data?
Jan 22: How Will We Work in this Course?
Jan 27: What does it mean to work with culture as data responsibly?
Jan 29: How can we work collaboratively and computationally?
February
Feb 3: How and when did we first start representing culture as data?
Feb 5: What does it mean to work digitally?
Feb 10: What are the historic legacies and politics of representing culture as data?
Feb 12: How has the web changed culture as data?
Feb 17: Who decides what culture becomes data?
Feb 19: How can we represent culture computationally?
Feb 24: How do our choices shape whose culture becomes data?
Feb 26: How can we start creating culture as data?
March
Mar 3: How do we ethically and legally work with culture as data?
Mar 5: How do we start scaling culture as data?
Mar 10: What is infrastructure and how does it shape culture as data?
Mar 12: How do we get culture as data?
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January
Jan 20: Why Represent Culture As Data?
Introducing Computing in the Humanities & Culture As Data
Why Represent Culture As Data?
Published
January 20, 2026
In-Class Agenda
Introductions and goals for the course
Overview and review the syllabus, slides available
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Discuss and define “What is computing in the humanities?” versus “What is culture as data?”
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What is Digital Humanities?
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