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DSMS 700. Seminar in Digital Scholarship and Media Studies

 Fall semester 2010  Prof. Allen Tullos and Dr. Carole Meyers  Allen's office: Callaway S407  Thursdays 1-4  Woodruff Library 214  http://dsmsfall2010.wikispaces.com/

 This seminar offers an interdisciplinary introduction to digital technologies and their increasing presence in research and publication in the humanities and social sciences. The course will survey the digital humanities, internet history, network society, the production of knowledge in cyberspace, scholarly use of new media, intellectual property, and digital archives. Students will also develop digital skills appropriate to their areas of interest. No technical expertise is needed to take the seminar.

 DSMS 700 is the core seminar for the new graduate [|Certificate in Digital Scholarship and Media Studies].

 Contact Prof. Tullos for information about the certificate program: allenet@aol.com or 404-377-1170.

 In addition to presentations by Emory faculty and staff, as well as web-based readings, the seminar has the following required texts, available at Emory's Barnes and Noble bookstore:

 [|Manuel Castells], Communication Power  Katie Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late  S. Craig Watkins, The Young and the Digital  [|Tim Berners-Lee], Weaving the Web  [|Lawrence Lessig], Remix

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The required texts listed below are available electronically for free.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis. [|Blown to Bits] : Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Jonathan Zittrain. [|The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Kathleen Fitzpatrick, [|Planned Obsolescence]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Weekly assignments: write a page (no more than two) about the assigned readings to aid in class discussion. Post your writing to the[| LL conference] prior to the start of each seminar meeting. In addition, each week one student will present a website or digital project of scholarly interest (approx. fifteen minutes).

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Semester digital project. To be discussed with the instructors.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> September 2. Introduction to seminar

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guest: Wayne Morse, director, Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching -- [|ECIT]. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> A [|calendar] of upcoming ECIT tech instruction sessions.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> September 9. Origins of the Internet and Web

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|RFC 2468], [|Vint Cerf]'s tribute to [|Jon Postel]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Sen. Ted Stevens[| "Series of Tubes"]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read: Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read: Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Discussion on potential digital projects by seminar participants

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Website Presentation: Andy Ditzler

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> In the news: [|Google Unveils Tool to Speed Up Searches]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> September 16. Digital humanities

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read: Susan Hockey, [|"The History of Humanities Computing"]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Michael Greenbalgh, [|"Art History"]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Patrik Svensson, [|"The Landscape of Digital Humanities"]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Christine L. Borgman, [|"The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities"]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Matt Kirschenbaum, [|"Hello Worlds"]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guests: Miriam Posner and Stewart Varner, Emory Libraries DiSC Project

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Miriam here: Stewart and I visited some exemplary digital humanities centers, which we'll tell you about. Check out their websites: University of Nebraska's [|Center for Digital Research in the Humanities], the University of Virginia's [|Scholars' Lab], and George Mason's [|Center for History and New Media]. If you'd like, you can get a preview of our discussion by reading the reports Stewart and I prepared about our visits (PDF warning!): [|George Mason], [|U VA], [|University of Nebraska]. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Thanks for having us! A few follow-up links: [|DiSC's information page], [|Bethany Nowviskie's graceful degradation survey] (PDF), and [|our Prezi presentation], which contains many more links. Be sure to drop us a line if you have any questions or just want to talk.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Presenters: Scott Libson, Mael Vizcarra

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> September 23. Ownership of digital objects, copyright. Intro to open access.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read Lessig, Remix.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> View TedTalk by Margaret Gould Stewart, [|"How YouTube thinks about copyright."]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guest: Lisa Macklin, Director, Emory Intellectual Property Rights Office. Lisa suggests we read [|Battle of the Opens; a post by Dorothea Salo] in the blog “The Book of Trogool” on March 15, 2010

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Presenter: Hemangini Gupta

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> September 30. Regulation of cyberspace. Web 2.0

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis [|Blown to Bits] Chapter 6 and browse in Lessig's [|Code 2.]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read Tim O'Reilly, [|"What is Web 2.0"]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guest: Michael Page, GIS specialist, Emory Libraries [|Electronic Data Center] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read about [|Geographic (or Geospatial) Information Systems (GIS)]. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Examples of Michael's work: [|Dayvault Quarry fossil location map] ; maps that reconstruct the Ten Broeck Race Course in [|Unearthing the Weeping TIme]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Google sightseeing [|views] of Katrina's damage

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Residents of one of Africa's largest slums put their homes [|on the map]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Website Presentation: Steven Swarbrick

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> October 7. Development on the Internet -- Closed v Open Systems

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read Zittrain[|, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guest: [|Rick Luce], Director of Emory Libraries <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read: Luce, [|"A New Value Equation Challenge: The Emergence of eResearch and Roles for Research Libraries"] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> from No Brief Candle:Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century ([|CLIR Reports], Aug 2008)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Recommended: Marlo Welshons, ed. 2006. [|Our Cultural Commonwealth]: The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. New York, N.Y.: American Council of Learned Societies.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Presenter: Louis Fagnan

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> October 14. Social Network fieldtrip. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Meet at [|Midtown Art Cinema] by 1:15 for viewing of <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Social Network.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Readings (to be discussed on Oct 21).

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> (No writing assignment for today)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> October 21. Discuss social networking and [|The Social Network]. Write your commentary on some combination of the movie and the reading assignments.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jose Antonio Vargas, [|"The Face of Facebook"] (New Yorker) Joe Nocera, [|"Capturing the Facebook Obsession"] (NYT) David Denby, [|"Influencing People: David Fincher and 'The Social Network.'] (New Yorker) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Watch [|Mom's on Facebook] (SNL) Stuart Elliott,[| "Marketers Trade Tales About Getting to Know Facebook and Twitter."] (NYT) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read danah boyd's [|blog] Frank Rich, [|"Facebook Politicians Are Not Your Friends."] (NYT) Malcolm Gladwell, [|"Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted."] (New Yorker) Lawrence Lessig, [|"Sorkin vs. Zuckerberg."] (New Republic) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read current issue of Educause Review on [|Attention, Engagement, & the Next Generation]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guest: Erika Farr, director, Emory Libraries born-digital initiatives. Links from Erika: [| Tapor] [|Digital Humanities Summer Institute] [|Ed Finn]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Presenters: Colin Reynolds, Alan Pike

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> October 28. Communication Power, 1

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read Castells to p. 193

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Presenters: Jesse Karlsberg, Mark Smith

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> November 4. Communication Power, 2

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read remaining Castells.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Website Presentation: Michael V. Nguyen

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guest: Paul Petersen, Director of IT Infrastructure

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> November 11. Future of Academic Publishing

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read Kathleen Fitzpatrick, [|Planned Obsolescence.]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|Directory of Open Access Journals]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|Open Access discussion at Emory]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Guest: Michael Elliott, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, Emory College

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Presenters: Nicole Janes, Joey Orr

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> November 18. Social networks, video games

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Read: S. Craig Watkins, The Young and the Digital.

Guest: Steve Bransford, Education Analyst for Video, Emory University

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> December 2 Class presentations