Publics & Principles

How can we preserve culture as data?

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss readings, slides available here

Assigned Materials

• Explore and read the principles of The Colored Conventions Project https://coloredconventions.org/
• Ding, Jennifer, Jan Diehm, and Michelle McGhee. “Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image.” The Pudding, October 2021. https://pudding.cool/2021/10/lenna/.
• Christen, Kimberly. “Does Information Really Want to Be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness.” International Journal of Communication 6 (November 2012). https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2012-11/apo-nid265091.pdf.

Additional Materials

• Klein, Lauren F., and Sandeep Soni. “How Words Lead to Justice.” Public Books, August 17, 2021. https://www.publicbooks.org/how-words-lead-to-justice/.
• Nowviskie, Bethany. “Reconstitute the World.” Bethany Nowviskie, June 12, 2018. http://nowviskie.org/2018/reconstitute-the-world/.
• Tarnoff, Ben. “The Data Is Ours!” Logic(s) Magazine, April 1, 2018. https://logicmag.io/scale/the-data-is-ours/.
• Posner, Miriam. “What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 32–41. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.6.