Given your interests in the various topics you have selected for your day to lead the group, I have compiled a variety of materials together for you. None of this is gospel; it represents merely a starting point. Many of these are a little bit older, which is a virtue: you can follow a citation thread to see how current thinking has evolved. One helpful thing to do when you are given a set of possibilities like this is to drop them into something like Google Scholar, Open Alex, or Research Rabbit (there are other options) to see who has cited a work, and how it has been used.

Keep track of what you’ve read using zotero.org. Use its built-in pdf reader to annotate and mark up what you’ve read. Use its citation management features when it comes time to write something developed from your reading notes!

Below I’ve gathered together resources that I think might help you, and I’ve tagged them with a broad theme they might speak to. Again, this is non-exhaustive. And you’ll also note that my citation style is all over the place. Yes. That’s because I piled these here as I worked on other things. The key thing is that you can follow through the links or otherwise quickly get to the piece. Some things might be paywalled. If you have any troubles, let me know.

Double-click a theme with your mouse, ctrol+v to copy it, ctrl+F to open the search in your browser, ctrl+v to paste it in and search!

Themes: #overview #playfulness #accessibility #games_simulation_ai #creativity #data_feminism #pedagogy #ai #minimal_computing #public_humanities #text_analysis #archives

  • The Data-Sitters Club explore several of the animating ideas, technologies, and approaches of DH through a sustained investigation of a large corpus of young-adult novels published in the 1990s. Strongly recommended.

  • Several openly available volumes in the ‘Debates in the Digital Humanities’ series have been published; you should really explore what is on offer. #overview

  • Reviews in DH is a publication that evaluates and shares current DH projects. Explore this publication for works that are of interest to you. Pay attention to the design and technology choices; pay attention to who is doing the work; pay attention to outcomes. #overview

  • Public. Open. Particpatory. On open scholarship, 5 volumes, several excellent pieces.

  • Digital Studies / Le champ numérique Journal of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Lots of fantastic stuff in here.

Other Overviews

Ford, Paul. ‘What is Code?’ Bloomberg #overview

Gold, Matthew K. & Lauren Klein “Introduction: The Digital Humanities, Moment to Moment” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, link #overview

Hockey, Susan. “The History of Humanities Computing” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. link #overview

Schmidt, Ben. 2016. ‘Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?’ Debates in the Digital Humanities #overview

Watters, Audrey. “Men (Still) Explain Technology to Me: Gender and Education Technology” Hack Education #overview

Other Resources

Appleton, Maggie. 2023. The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI link #ai

Appleton, Maggie. 2024. Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers link (See also Robin Sloan here) #ai #creativity

Basaraba, Nicole. Transmedia Narratives for Cultural Heritage: Remixing History. Routledge, 2022, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205630. #creativity

Bender, Emily M., et al. ‘On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜’. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 610–23. ACM Digital Library, https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922. #ai

Brown, Michelle Lee, Hēmi Whaanga, and Jason Edward Lewis. ‘Relation-Oriented AI: Why Indigenous Protocols Matter for the Digital Humanities’. in Debates in DH 2023 https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/98dc1c8f-8583-4428-ac84-17ff072bdcad#ch04 #ai

Chan, Tiffany. 2017. Author Function, ‘Context’ section. link #ai

Cox, Jordana, and Lauren Tilton. ‘The Digital Public Humanities: Giving New Arguments and New Ways to Argue’. Review of Communication, vol. 19, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 127–46. DOI.org (Crossref), [https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2019.1598569](https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2019.1598569. #public_humanities

Crompton, C., & Schwartz, M. (2016). Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: Representing the Dyke Dynamo. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numériques, 5(1). https://www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/7283/ #archives

Crompton, Constance, and Tristan Lamonica. ‘Who’s There? Developing a Toolkit to Model People, Places, and Concepts in the Rijeka in Flux Map’. Pop! Public. Open. Participatory, no. 1, Oct. 2019. popjournal.ca, https://popjournal.ca/issue01/Crompton_Lamonica. #archives

Croxall, Brian and D. Jakacki, editors. What We Teach When We Teach DH’ 2023, University of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/what-we-teach-when-we-teach-dh #pedagogy

Croxall, Brian and Quinn Warnick. ‘Failure’ Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities #playfulness

Darian, Shiva, et al. ‘Enacting Data Feminism in Advocacy Data Work’. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 7, no. CSCW1, Apr. 2023, pp. 1–28. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1145/3579480. #data_feminism

Dombrowski, Q. and P. Burns. ‘Launage Is Not a Default Setting: Countering DH’s English Problem’ in Debates in DH 2023 https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/704fd8ae-99f1-4bfc-a275-7f5ad88b48af#ch19 #text_analysis

D’Ignazio, Catherine and Lauren F. Klein, “What Gets Counted Counts” and “The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves,” Data Feminism (2020), https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/ #data_feminism

Fanning, Katie, et al. ‘Interactive Inspirations: The Case for Incorporating Joy and Play in Open Social Scholarship’. Pop! Public. Open. Participatory, no. 5, Oct. 2023. popjournal.ca, https://popjournal.ca/issue05/fanning. #playfulnes #archives

Gavin, Michael. ‘Agent-Based Modeling and Historical Simulation’. Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 008, no. 4, Dec. 2014. link #games_simulation_ai

Gil, Alex, Élika Ortega. 2016. ‘Global outlooks in digital humanities: multilingual practices and minimal computing’. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315707860-12/global-outlooks-digital-humanities-multilingual-practices-minimal-computing-alex-gil-%C3%A9lika-ortega #minimal_computing

Graham, Shawn. 2019. Failing Gloriously & Other Essays full text #playfulness

Kee, Kevin et al, “Towards a Theory of Good History Through Gaming”, Canadian Historical Review 90:2 (June 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/chr.90.2.303 #games_simulation_ai

Klein, Julie. ‘The Boundary Work of Making in Digital Humanities’ in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-aa1769f2-6c55-485a-81af-ea82cce86966/section/4f752a6d-e916-4dfa-b1d3-b873df744a17#ch01 #creativity

Klein, Lauren, and Catherine D’Ignazio. ‘Data Feminism for AI’. The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM, 2024, pp. 100–12. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3658543 #data_feminism

Knight, Kim Brillante. 2017. ‘Making Space: Feminist DH and a Room of One’s Own’ http://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/2017/02/18/knight-makingspace/ #minimal_computing

Lean, Marion. ‘Materialising Data Feminism – How Textile Designers Are Using Materials to Explore Data Experience’. Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, vol. 9, no. 2, May 2021, pp. 184–209. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2021.1928987. #data_feminism

Lee, TB. 2023. A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work. 31 July 2023. Available at https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/ #ai

Long, Karawynn. 2023. “Language is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence”. Nine Lives blog, June 26, 2023. link #ai

Mol, A. et al. 2017 The Interactive Past - Archaeology, Heritage, and Video Games Sidestone Press https://www.sidestone.com/books/the-interactive-past #games_simulation_ai

Parish, Allison. 2021 Language models can only write poetry. link #ai

Parrish, Allison. ‘Programming is Forgetting’ link #creativity

Parrish, Allison. ‘The Umbra of an Imago: Writing Under Control of Machine Learning’ link #creativity

Pichler, Axel, and Nils Reiter. ‘From Concepts to Texts and Back: Operationalization as a Core Activity of Digital Humanities’. Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 7, no. 4, Dec. 2022. culturalanalytics.org, https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.57195. #text_analysis

Radio, Erik. 2020. ‘Minimal Computing and Ontologies’ Minimal Computing http://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/2020/07/21/minimal-ontology/ #minimal_computing

Ramsay, Stephen. 2014 ‘The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books’ in K. Kee (ed) Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, p111-120 full text #playfulness

Ramsay, Stephen. 2016 ‘Humane Computation’ Debates in the Digital Humanities #playfulness

Salter, Anastasia, and B. Blodgett. Playing the Humanities: Feminist Game Studies and Public Discourse in Elixabeth Losh and Jacquline Wernimont, eidtors.Bodies of Information University of Minnesota Press, 2019. #games_simulation_ai

Salvaggio, Eryk. 2024. Challenging the Myths of Generative AI Tech Policy Press #games_simulation_ai

Salvaggio, Eryk. 2024. Slop Infrastructures 1 & 2. link #games_simulation_ai

Salvaggio, Eryk. 2024. Writing Noise into Noise, Revisited CyberneticForests. #creativity

Sample, Mark. ‘Play’ Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities #playfulness

Sayers, Jentery. ‘Minimal Definitions’ https://jntry.work/mindefinitions/. #minimal_computing

Sayers, Jentery. editor. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries](https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/making-things-and-drawing-boundaries). Contextualizes ‘making’ within the broader DH world. #creativity

Smith, Astrid and B. Whearty. ‘All the Work You Do Not See. Labor, Digitizers, and the Foundations of Digital Humanities’ in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-4e08b137-aec5-49a4-83c0-38258425f145/section/7920a6ee-baa9-4d31-a115-c962131dfcd6#ch25 #public_humanities

Smulyan, Susan, editor. Doing Public Humanities. Routledge, 2020, [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003058038](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003058038. A variety of chapters might be appropriate to your interests. If you have trouble getting access to any piece, let me know. #public_humanities

Storey, Grant, and David Mimno. ‘Like Two Pis in a Pod: Author Similarity Across Time in the Ancient Greek Corpus’. Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 5, no. 2, July 2020. culturalanalytics.org, https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.13680. #text_analysis

Sutherland, Tonia et al. ‘The Feminist Data Manifest-NO: An Introduction and Four Reflections’ in Debates in DH 2023. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/16184c7d-eee1-40b2-a168-960d4c4035c4#ch08 #data_feminism

Underwood, Ted. “Mapping the Latent Spaces of Culture” Startwords 3: Parrots. August 1, 2022. https://startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/issues/3/mapping-latent-spaces/ #ai

Walsh, Melanie. ‘The Challenges and Possibilities of Social Media Data: New Directions in Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities’ in Debates in DH 2023 https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2023/section/a57b98ab-0f10-45d0-b205-3e563aab7ea8#ch18 #text_analysis

WC3 Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities link #accessibility

Wickman, Matthew. ‘What Are the Public Humanities? No, Really, What Are They?’ University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 4, Nov. 2016, pp. 6–11. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.85.4.6. #public_humanities

Williams, G. 2012 ‘Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities’ Debates in the Digital Humanities #accessibility

Williams, G. ‘Access’ Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities #accessibility

Willison, Simon. Peruse his whole damned blog #ai