Tuesday: History of the Internet and the Digital Humanities
The class will discuss the history of the internet and the digital humanities. How have they changed? How have the changing capabilities of the internet and digital tools informed the questions we can ask?
Read:
- “Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It’s Taking Over the World” Wired Magazine (Aug. 6, 2016). {if Wired tries to block you from reading it, turn off JavaScript from the dev tools to read it (then reload page)…Google, YouTube or ChatGPT how to do that}
- “Internet history timeline: ARPANET to the World Wide Web,” LiveScience.com (2022).
- Max Roser, “The Internet’s History Has Just Begun,” Our World in Data (October 3, 2018).
examples:
The Valley of the Shadow: Guide to the Valley (virginia.edu) (One of the original major DH projects).
Thursday: Copyright, Open Source, open access, Metadata, data types
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