{"id":1590,"date":"2020-02-07T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikejonesonline.com\/contextjunky\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2020-07-16T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:43:48","slug":"digital-history-and-dh-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikejonesonline.com\/contextjunky\/2020\/02\/07\/digital-history-and-dh-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital history and DH resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday, 24 January 2020 I sent out a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DigitalHumanities?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DigitalHumanities<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Twitterstorians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Twitterstorians<\/a> hive mind: this semester I&#39;m delivering two classes to Honours and Masters students on digital history\u2014the final two weeks in an Advanced Historiography course. What are the key DH readings\/projects you think every historian should look at?<\/p>&mdash; Mike Jones (@MikeJonesPhD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeJonesPhD\/status\/1220534732183621632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a selection of responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some put forward key names, @datakid23 suggesting anything by Melissa Terras, @meredithcastles pointing me toward Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Paul Turnbull, and Mike Twidale, @roaminglibrary flagging the work of Tim Sherratt, @1n9r1d linking to the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/sarahkenderdine.info\">Sarah Kenderdine<\/a> and for @ErikEklund10: &#8220;Anything by the late great Roy Rosenzweig.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People recommended chapters from the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu\/\">Debates in the Digital Humanities<\/a> series: @DrJessC chose Stephen Robertson&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu\/read\/untitled\/section\/ed4a1145-7044-42e9-a898-5ff8691b6628#ch25\">The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History<\/a>&#8216; (a great suggestion for Honours and Masters history students); @KatherineBode selected Tara McPherson&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu\/read\/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e\/section\/20df8acd-9ab9-4f35-8a5d-e91aa5f4a0ea\">Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation<\/a>&#8216;; and @melissaterras flagged their chapter (with Julianne Nyhan) on &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu\/read\/untitled\/section\/1e57217b-f262-4f25-806b-4fcf1548beb5#ch06\">Father Busa&#8217;s Female Punchcard Operatives<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were key figures from the history of computing\u2014Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing (@tmtn), and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jasia_Reichardt\">Jaisa Reichardt<\/a> (@feraldata)\u2014and key moments, particularly Douglas Engelbart&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yJDv-zdhzMY\">Mother of all demos<\/a>&#8216; from 1968 (@gravitron)  which generated quite a bit of discussion. The digital humanities has its own history too, explored by Nyhan and and Andrew Flinn in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783319201696\">Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of the Digital Humanities<\/a> (recommended by @melissaterras).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@FCTweedie had their &#8220;mind bent (in good ways)&#8221; by the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?user=mstFmQ8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en#\">Natasha Maunther<\/a>, @Marnie_HW recommended Beatrice Fazi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowmaninternational.com\/book\/contingent_computation\/3-156-39ceb0a5-ed3a-489c-b0c7-97c9ce84730d\">Contingent Computation<\/a> and @gravitron suggested Judy Wajcman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-au\/Feminism+Confronts+Technology-p-9780745607788\">Feminism Confronts Technology<\/a>, further expanding my growing list of things I want to read. (The last of these was prompted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com.au\/e\/silicon-valleys-quest-for-temporal-optimization-tickets-92150459505\">next week&#8217;s talk by Wajcman<\/a> at ANU. For those in Canberra, I&#8217;ll see you there!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not surprisingly, given the circles I move in, there were some GLAM suggestions, including Nancy Proctor&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/j.2151-6952.2009.00006.x\">Museum as Platform, Curator as Champion<\/a>&#8216; (@trumpote) and the recent monster anthology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-New-Digital-Practices-in-Galleries\/Lewi-Smith-vom-Lehn-Cooke\/p\/book\/9781138581296\">The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites<\/a> (@drkeir).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the practical side there was @mharropesquire with the indispensable <a href=\"https:\/\/programminghistorian.org\/\">Programming Historian<\/a> and @datakid23 with <a href=\"https:\/\/melbourne.resbaz.edu.au\/post\/128761072309\/natural-language-toolkit-meets-mr-fraser\">Fiona Tweedie&#8217;s post<\/a> on Python and Natural Language ToolKit (NLTK) \u2014a clear and concise introduction for historians wondering how to take their first steps into text analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there were projects, @1n9r1d voting for <a href=\"https:\/\/teara.govt.nz\/en\">Te Ara<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turing.ac.uk\/research\/research-projects\/living-machines\">Living with machines<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourdigitalheritage.org\/archive\/playitagain\/\">Play It Again<\/a>, and Tim Sherratt&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/glam-workbench.github.io\/\">GLAM Workbench<\/a>; and @mishtory suggesting the powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\">Colonial Frontiers Massacres Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my part, there are so many others who could be listed alongside these, including anthologies for digital historians like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fulcrum.org\/concern\/monographs\/nz806057k\">Writing History in the Digital Age<\/a> and the work of Bethany Nowviskie, Thomas Padilla, Miriam Posner, Roopika Risam, and Deb Verhoeven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to everyone for their suggestions. And if you have more you would like to add, you can keep the conversation going in the comments here, or on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeJonesPhD\">@MikeJonesPhD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 24 January 2020 I sent out a tweet asking people what they thought were the key digital humanities readings and projects every historian should look at. 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