English 495: The Digital Humanities

In this class, we will continue to examine the questions and challenges raised by attempts to define the Digital Humanities, in particular, by looking at the position of the Humanities in today’s intellectual climate and the impact of the increased …

We will look at cyborg culture and the prospects for creating a new library of Alexandria.

Readings:

Cyborg Culture

• “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (The text is available on Google Books, pp. 28-37)
• “Johnny Mnemnonic” (There is an alternative online

Computational approaches to textual analysis (distant reading, and all that jazz).

Reading (not due until next week):

• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, and Trees, ch. 1

For Class:

• Text Visualisation Tools
• Visualisation Strategies
• Divitext
• Treeview
• Doctor Faustus
• Frankenstein

Reading:

• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, and Trees, ch. 1

For Class:

• Text Tokeniser
• Divitext
• Treeview
• Topic Flower Tool (other tools are available on the same site)
• Doctor Faustus
• Frankenstein
• Voyeur Tools
• Wordle
• Many Eyes (requires creating an account)

In this class we will workshop final projects.

• Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)

More collaborative work.…

Party?…