/ Lisa Spiro Digital Media Center, Rice University October 2010

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 Communicating  Representing knowledge  Producing knowledge  Teaching “Digital Humanities 2008 Book of Abstracts”

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“Digital humanities is a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology, and the exploration of how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods.” (Digital Humanities Quarterly)Digital Humanities Quarterly

Researcher Chats w/ colleagues Conferences Meeting with students Publications

Researcher Chats w/ colleagues Conferences Meeting with students Publications Multimedia publications Blogs Twitter

 Share information  Conduct conversations  Keep track of conferences  Reveal interests of community

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 Expand access to knowledge  Make scholarly work more visible  Enable information to be re-used and built upon

 12 million+ volumes in Google Books  Average American consumes 34 gigabytes per day (UCSD study)UCSD study  At least billion pages on the indexed web14.54 billion pages

 Primary texts cited in my dissertation: 150ish  Results for search of “bachelor” in Google Books: 181,000

 How do we study world literature and understand the literary system?  Close reading= small canon  “Distant reading: where distance… is a condition of knowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes—or genres and systems.”  Microscope vs. telescope  Elaborated in Franco Morretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005)

“a visualization of word frequencies.” (Many Eyes)

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 Visualize evolution of American presidential politics by transforming data into dynamic images “to reveal patterns across time”

An “experiment in multi-campus digital pedagogy”

 Getting data  Technology development  Copyright  Funding  Academic culture  Training  Publishing  Preservation & sustainability /

 Collaborative  Open, visible, public  Experimental  Bridges theory and practice  Cultural objects as “data”; interpret patterns  Engaged with the “now”  PS: It’s fun THATCamp Paris 54/

 Work at a place like the DMC  Develop your own digital humanities project  Take a wide variety of courses, e.g.  Caleb McDaniel’s HIST 246: The American Civil War Era  Programming  Design  Media studies, etc.  Experiment with multimedia tools such as video editing  Read widely  Be conscious of digital culture

 Contact me at the DMC (Herring 129) or at  Download these slides