Welcome

You have found Critical Making in Digital History, HIST3812 Winter 2018 at Carleton University.

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Key Questions:

What happens to history as it gets digitized? That is, what does history look like, what happens to our materials, and the stories we tell or the questions we ask, as we abstract further and further away from ‘In Real Life’? What does ‘digital history’ really mean?

How will we explore this question?

You will choose a real world object/building/site here in Ottawa that you can access and:

progressively abstract it away from the real world with a series of technologies from photogrammetry to augmented reality
all the while attending lectures to learn the context of what we’re doing and why,
annotating the readings collaboratively on the open web
as you keep open notebooks reflecting on this progression
so that you can build a digital experience of your understanding of your results
for a public reveal to be held on campus at the end of term.

Shawn Graham

I’m an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

No one is more surprised by this than me.

Office Hours

By chance or appointment. PA406, shawn.graham@carleton.ca

Interests

Computational Creativity for History & Archaeology
Open Access Everything
Digital Public History & Archaeology

This is me

I’m currently working on things like machine learning, and the dodgy trade in human remains, and a textbook on digital archaeology with its own integrated computational environment. Recently I designed, built, and launched a journal for creativity in history and archaeology called Epoiesen. The journal went live in October 2017.

Education

PhD in Archaeology, 2002, University of Reading
MA City of Rome, 1998, University of Reading
BA Hons, Archaeology, 1997 Wilfrid Laurier University

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