Slides for a workshop to introduce undergraduates to the Digital Humanities. First given at Cabrini College, PA, October 2014. Talk is CC-BY-SA--feel free to use and remix, so long as you cite :)
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Digital Humanities for Undergraduates: Getting Started
1. DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Getting Started for Undergraduates
Prof.Adeline Koh @adelinekoh
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Thursday, October 3, 13
2. WHAT IS DH?
• Expanding
Traditional humanities
research through
digital methods
The humanities through the
digital as a humanistic
object of inquiry
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21. REWRITING WIKIPEDIA
• Average Wikipedia editor is
white, middle-class, English-
speaking male, college-
educated
• Knowledge produced on
Wikipedia mirrors print
knowledge; generally
conservative, limited
coverage on women +
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22. REWRITING WIKIPEDIA
• Rewriting Wikipedia Project
(Postcolonial Digital
Humanities)
• focusing on marginalized
groups around the world
• http://dhpoco.org/
rewriting-wikipedia
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28. WHY DH?
• Undergraduates as Public Scholars
• Make what you are studying relevant to the world at large
• Do you write differently when you know the world is
watching, rather than your professor alone?
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30. LET’S GET STARTED!
• Take an Index Card
• Write down three DH Projects that you think you could start
at your school, and undertake in your classes.
• What value would these add to your existing classes?
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31. NEXT STEPS
Join HASTAC scholars!
www.hastac.org
-blogging, tweeting,
networking
with others at diff. institutions
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