1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/3605597056 / Lisa Spiro Digital Media Center, Rice University October 2010

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anony mouscollective/4263193267/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/n ashworld/4317522789/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/derb/ 456767/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/e arlhamcollege/4387460257/

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

5. http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/How_do_you_define_Humanities_Computing_/_Dig ital_Humanities%3F

6. “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

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nichollsphotos/2906834393/

8. Researcher Chats w/ colleagues Conferences Meeting with students Publications

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

10.  Share information  Conduct conversations  Keep track of conferences  Reveal interests of community http://twitter.com/#!/dancohen/digitalhumanities

11. http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/

12. http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2010/07/dh2010-plenary-present-not- voting.html

13. http://www.briancroxall.net/2010/03/08/on-going-viral-at-the-virtual-mla/

14. http://www.scottbot.net/blog/?page_id=2

16. http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/

17. http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/AHR/

18. http://hypercities.com/

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

20. http://hackingtheacademy.org/

21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bw/2516698553/

22.  12 million+ volumes in Google Books  Average American consumes 34 gigabytes per day (UCSD study)UCSD study  At least 14.54 billion pages on the indexed web14.54 billion pages

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

24.  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) http://www.newleftreview.org/A2094

25. http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/ “a visualization of word frequencies.” (Many Eyes)

26. http://americanpast.richmond.edu/dispatch/pages/home

27. http://www.youtube.com/user/Calit2ube#p/search/1/xtbzVuDqSas

28. http://shc.stanford.edu/intellectual-life/video-podcasts/detail/tracking-18th- century-social-network-through-letters

29. http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/emancipation/BlkPop/migration.html

30.  Visualize evolution of American presidential politics by transforming data into dynamic images “to reveal patterns across time” http://americanpast.richmond.edu/voting/

31. http://www.zotero.org/

32. http://lookingforwhitman.org/ An “experiment in multi-campus digital pedagogy”

33.  Getting data  Technology development  Copyright  Funding  Academic culture  Training  Publishing  Preservation & sustainability http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonlucas/20421 3403/

34.  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 http://www.flickr.com/photos/revuesorg/46265104 54/

35.  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

36.  Contact me at the DMC (Herring 129) or at lspiro@rice.edu lspiro@rice.edu  Download these slides