(Readings have been selected on account of brevity and accessibility. List is subject to change based on group’s interests.) 

October 1

Group introductions. No readings for the meeting.

October 15

New possibilities and perils for the humanities

• Todd Presner et al., Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0:
  • Read the short introduction here: http://www.toddpresner.com/?p=7
  • Read the manifesto here: http://www.humanitiesblast.com/manifesto/Manifesto_V2.pdf
  • Take a look the collaborative platform, where it received public feedback:
    http://manifesto.humanities.ucla.edu/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/. Click, for example, on the comment icon to the right of paragraph 11 to see comments.
• Chris Gilliard, “Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms,” https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/7/pedagogy-and-the-logic-of-platforms

October 29

The humanities and the public

• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Working in Public,” from Generous Thinking: The University and The Public Good (forthcoming), https://generousthinking.hcommons.org/4-working-in-public/. Read online section 4, pages 17-21.

[Meeting activity: Check out the Modern Language Humanities Commons, HASTAC, and The Public Philosophy Journal.]

Suggested: 

• Zachary Kaiser video, Our Program, https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2017/10/05/our-program/
• Gary Hall, “Should This Be the Last Thing You Read on Academia.edu,”   https://www.academia.edu/16959788/Should_This_Be_the_Last_Thing_You_Read_on_Academia.edu
• Christopher Long, “Cultivating Communities of Learning with Digital Media,” https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:10403/
• —, “Practicing Public Scholarship”http://publications.publicphilosophyjournal.org/record/?kid=6-15-173282

November 19

Knowledge access and infrastructure

• Aaron Schwartz, “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto,”   https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
• Ian Graber-Stiehl, “Science’s Pirate Queen,” https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit 

Suggested:

• Video, “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Schwartz,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv6t21xXogY
• Joanna Drucker and Patrik Svensson, “The Why and How of Middleware,” http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/2/000248/000248.html

November 26

Surveillance

• Shoshana Zuboff, “Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization.”
• Audrey Watters, “The Weaponization of Education Data,” http://hackeducation.com/2017/12/11/top-ed-tech-trends-weaponized-data

[Meeting activity: download personal data and explore.]

 

December 10

Final meeting of Fall 2018 + pizza!

• Our last assignment is to come prepared to talk (informally for about five minutes) about a possible project that addresses the opportunities or challenges regarding technology and education that we’ve discussed this quarter. Let me know if you have any questions.
• We will also discuss plans for next quarter: the creation of a zine that addresses the hopes, fears, and possibilities regarding technology and the humanities! I am hoping to get local presses/zine organizers/artists involved, so I am looking forward to brainstorming the project with you all!

 

December 10

Computational analysis

• Kathryn Schluz, “What is Distant Reading,” https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-what-is-distant-reading.html 
• Lauren Klein, “Distant Reading After Moretti,” http://lklein.com/2018/01/distant-reading-after-moretti/
• Emily Dreyfuss, “ICE is Everywhere: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis,” https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-everywhere-using-library-science-to-map-child-separation/

[Meeting activity: text analysis of The UC San Diego student newspaper.]

Suggested: 

• Vernor Vinge, “Guardians of the Past, Handmaidens of the Future,” from Rainbows End, https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/vernor-vinge%5Erainbows-end.html#CHAPTER%2012
• Angel David Nieves, “Black Spatial Humanities,” https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/285/285.pdf

December 17

Software activism

• Richard Stallman, “Free Software is Even More Important Now,” https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.en.html
• Selection (TBD), Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism
• D.A. Banks, “Which Side Are They On,” https://thebaffler.com/latest/which-side-are-they-on-banks
• Nathan Schneider, “The Joy of Slow Computing,” https://newrepublic.com/article/121832/pleasure-do-it-yourself-slow-computing

[Meeting activity: discuss next steps/projects. Optional workshop for building a twitter bot.]