References

Pedagogy

How to find and assess useful tutorials for you and your students: example

What is DH?

Debates in the Digital Humanities Landing page. OA Editions from 2011, 2016,2019, as well as related texts

Alternative Histories of the Digital Humanities

Getting Started -Strategies for DH Professional Development

What is DH ?

Day in the life

Getting Started - Strategies for DH Professional Development

References for Community of Practice

Community of Practice Design Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing & Cultivating Communities of Practice in Higher Education

Teaching in a Digital Age: Communities of practice

Collaborative group set up

Based on A better way to teach technical skills to a group

DH/Library charters or values statements

• List of digital or experimental scholarship or profession, GLAM, and related charters, values statements, pledges, and codes

Data

• A Duke study recorded thousands of students’ faces. Now they’re being used all over the world

• Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities

• Data in DHQ

Data References

• Andrejevic Mark. (2014). “The Big Data divide.” International Journal of Communication 8: 1673–1689.

• Bauman, Z and Lyon, David. (2013). Liquid Surveillance. London: Polity Press.

• Birchall, Clare (2015). “‘Data.gov-in-a-box’: Delimiting transparency.” European Journal of Social Theory 18 (2015): 185–202.

• Bogost, Ian. 2015. “The cathedral of computation.” The Atlantic, January 15. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-cathedral-of-computation/384300/

• boyd, d. & Crawford, K. (2012). “Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon.” Information, Communication & Society 15(5): 662–679. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878

• Crawford, Kate, Miltner K, and Gray M. (2014). “Critiquing Big Data: Politics, ethics, epistemology.” International Journal of Communication 8: 1663–1672.

• D’Ignazio, Catherine & Klein, Lauren F. (2018). Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities. IEEE VIS 2016. Baltimore, MD.

• Dalton, Craig and Thatcher, Jim. (2014). “What does a critical data studies look like, and why do we care? Seven points for a critical approach to ‘big data.’” Society & Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/what-does-a-critical-data-studies-look-like-and-why-do-we-care

• Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA). Utrecht Data School https://dataschool.nl/deda/?lang=en

• Diamond, Larry. (2010). “Liberation technology,” Journal of Democracy 21(3): 69–83.

• Drucker, Johanna. 2011. “Humanities approaches to graphical display”, Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.1. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html

• Fuchs, Christian. (2010). “Labor in informational capitalism and on the internet.” The Information Society 26(3): 179–196.

• Guldi, Jo. (2019). “What can the humanities teach us about Big Data?” History News Network https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171186

• Hoffmann, Leah. (2012). “Data mining meets city hall.” Communications of the ACM 55(6), 19–21. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/6/149784-data-mining-meets-city-hall/fulltext

• Hooker, Sara (2018). “Why “sata for good” lacks precision,” Towards Data Science. https://towardsdatascience.com/why-data-for-good-lacks-precision-87fb48e341f1

• Jackson, Suzanne F. (2008). “A participatory group process to analyze qualitative data,” Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action 2(2): 161–170.

• Kaplan, Frédéric. (2015). “A map for big data research in digital humanities.” Frontiers in Digital Humanities https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2015.00001

• Kleinmann, Scott (2015). “Digital humanities projects with small and unusual data: Some experiences from the trenches,” Digital Humanities Now. https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2016/03/digital-humanities-projects-with-small-and-unusual-data-some-experiences-from-the-trenches/

• Kitchin, Rob and Lauriault, Tracey. (2014). “Small data, data infrastructure and big data.” The Programmable City Working Paper 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2376148

• Liu, Alan. (2012). “Where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities?” In: Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, 490–509. Minneapolis, Minn.: University Of Minnesota Press. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/20.

• McPherson, Tara. (2012). “Why are the digital humanities so white? or Thinking the histories of race and computation.” In: Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold, Minneapolis, Minn.: University Of Minnesota Press. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e/section/20df8acd-9ab9-4f35-8a5d-e91aa5f4a0ea.

• Milan, Stefania, and Lonneke Van Der Velden. (2016). “The alternative epistemologies of data activism.” Digital Culture & Society 2(2): 57–74.

• Plewe, Brandon. (2002). “The nature of uncertainty in historical geographic information.” Transactions in GIS 6(4): 431–456.

• Posner, Miriam. (2016). “What’s next: The radical, unrealized potential of digital humanities.” Keystone DH Conference, University of Pennsylvania, July 22, 2015. http://miriamposner.com/blog/whats-next-the-radical-unrealized-potential-of-digital-humanities.

• Redden, Joanna & Brand, Jessica. “Data harm record.” Data Justice Lab. https://datajusticelab.org/data-harm-record

• Risam, Roopika & Edwards, Susan. (2017). “Micro DH: Digital humanities at the small scale” Digital Humanities 2017. https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/196/196.pdf

• Schöch, Christof. (2013). “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the humanities,” Journal of Digital Humanities 2(3). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-3/big-smart-clean-messy-data-in-the-humanities/

• Sharon, Tamar, and Zandbergen, Dorien. (2017). “From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data.” New Media & Society 19(11): 1695–1709.

• Tactical Tech Collective. (2013). Visualising Information for Advocacy. https://visualisingadvocacy.org

• Burns, R., Thatcher, J. (2015) “Guest editorial: What’s so big about Big Data? Finding the spaces and perils of Big Data.” GeoJournal 80, 445–448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-014-9600-8

• Van Dijk, J. (2014). “Datafication, dataism, and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology.” Surveillance & Society 12(2): 197–208.

• “Where things have gone wrong,” DEON. http://deon.drivendata.org/examples

• Wing, Jeanette M. (2019). “The data life cycle.” Harvard Data Science Review 1. https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/577rq08d

Coding

Math for humanists

“This book is a primer for developing the skills to enable humanist scholars to address complicated technical material with confidence. This book, to put it plainly, is concerned with the things that the author of a technical article knows, but isn’t saying. Like any field, mathematics operates under a regime of shared assumptions, and it is our purpose to elucidate some of those assumptions for the newcomer.” - Six Septembers: Mathematics for the Humanist

Additional links on Digital Humanities and HPC

• High Performance Computing in the Arts & Humanities

• Enabling complex analysis of large-scale digital collections: Humanities research, high-performance computing, and transforming access to British Library digital collections

• Literate Computing: The relationship between computer-readable code and human-readable text gained visibility within computer science in the 1970’s, when Donald Knuth proposed the “literate programming” paradigm.

• Based on DHRI-CUNY-Curriculum Session on ethics for for digital projects and research.

Note that these resources are just a sampling of readings and projects that may be useful for thinking about or demonstrative of critically ethical approaches to digital projects and research, but there are many more resources out there! Also note that there is much overlap between the sub-topics below.

US government regulations and general IRB information

• Belmont Report

• Fiesler, Casey, Cliff Lampe, and Amy S. Bruckman, “Reality and Perception of Copyright Terms of Service for Online Content Creation,” 2016

• International Compilation of Human Research Standards (by country), compiled by the Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Investigator Responsibilities FAQs, compiled by Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Regulations and Policy in the US, compiled by the Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, note new changes - effective January 19, 2018

Key works (among many more!) on power, the politics of knowledge production, and forms of knowledge

• Collins, Patricia Hill, Black Feminist Thought, 1999

• Conquergood, Dwight, “Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research,” 2002

• Foucault, Michel, The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, 1969

• Foucault, Michel, “Panopticism,” 1977

• Gramsci, Antonio, various writings

• Hall, Stuart et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order, 1978

• Haraway, Donna, “Situated Knowledges,” 1988

• Shay-Akil, Decolonize ALL The Things (website)

• Simons, Helen, and Robin Usher, editors, Situated Ethics in Educational Research, 2000

• Taylor, Diana, The Archive and the Repertoire, 2003

• Wolfe, Patrick, “Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native,” 2006

General information on digital ethics beyond compliance

• Design Justice Network, “Design Justice Network Principles”

• Fiesler, Casey, table of Tech Ethics Curricula - including links to syllabi

• Markham, Annette, “OKCupid data release fiasco: It’s time to rethink ethics education,” 2016

• Nissenbaum, Helen, “Privacy as Contextual Integrity,” 2004

• Sayers, Jentery, “Before You Make a Thing,” a guide for Technology and Society 200 (Fall 2018) at the University of Victoria

• Skirpan, Michael Warren, Negotiating the Future: Leveraging Socio-technical Narratives to Engage Multiple Voices in the Ethics of Our Future, 2017

• Sacasas, L M. “The Questions Concerning Technology”

Critical technology, coding, and/or computation studies or practice groups

• Critical Code Studies Working Group

• Design Justice Network

• FemTechNet

• School for Poetic Computation

On internet, social media and “big data” research ethics

• Internet Research Ethics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Berendt, Bettina, Marco Büchler, and Geoffrey Rockwell, “Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences,” 2015)

• Markam, Annette, and Elizabeth Buchanon, “Ethical Concerns in Internet Research,” forthcoming

• Markam, Annette, Elizabeth Buchanon, the AoIR Ethics Committee, and AoIR general membership, “Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0),” 2012

• Metcalf, Jacob, “Computing Ethics, Big Data Analytics, and Revision of the Common Rule: Reconsidering traditional research ethics given the emergence of big data analytics,” 2016

• Metcalf, Jacob and Kate Crawford, “Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide,” 2016

• Noble, Safiya Umoja, The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online, 2016

• Sweeney, Patrick, “Images of Faces Gleaned from Social Media in Social Psychological Research on Sexual Orientation,” 2017

• Young, Jason, and Michael Gilmore, “Subaltern Empowerment in the Geoweb: Tensions between Publicity and Privacy,” 2014

• Zimmer, Michael, and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, editors, Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts, 2017

• Zook, Matthew, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale, “Ten simple rules for responsible big data research,” 2017

On ethics, algorithms and databases

• Abramson, Darren and Lee Pike, “When Formal Systems Kill: Computer Ethics and Formal Methods,” 2011

• Angwen, Julia and Jeff Larson, “Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say,” 2016

• Broussard, Meredith, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, 2018

• Caplan, Robyn, Joan Donovan, Lauren Hanson, and Jeanna Matthews, “Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer,” 2018

• Chammah, Maurice, with additional reporting by Mark Hansen, “Policing the Future: In the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis cops embrace crime-predicting software,” 2016

• Eubanks, Virginia, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, 2018

• Gillespie, Tarleton, and Nick Seaver, “Critical Algorithm Studies: a Reading List,” 2016

• Halsey, Eric David, “With AI and Data, it’s ‘Junk in, Junk Out,’” 2017

• Hoffmann, Anna Lauren, “Data Violence and How Bad Engineering Choices Can Damage Society,” 2018

• Joyner, April, “The hidden politics of digital catalogs,” 2016

• Noble, Safiya Umoja, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, 2018

• O’Neil, Cathy, Methods of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, 2016

• ProPublica’s series of articles on “Machine Bias: Investigating Algorithmic Injustice”

• Selbst, Andrew D., Danah Boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Janet Vertesi, “Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems,” 2018

• Selbst, Andrew D. and Julia Powles, “Meaningful information and the right to explanation,” 2017

• Selbst, Andrew D. and Solon Barocas, “Regulating Inscrutable Systems,” 2017

• The Brian Lehrer Show, “Getting Algorithms Right” (podcast), 2018

• The Policing in Chicago Research Group, “Tracked and Targeted: Early Findings on Chicago’s Gang Database,” 2018

On ethics and the command line

• Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, “On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge,” 2004

• Stephenson, Neal, “In the Beginning was the Command Line,” 1999

On ethics and mapping

• Bargués-Pedreny, Pol, David Chandler, and Elena Simon, Editors, Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age, 1st Edition, 2018

• Technology Salon NYC, “Ethics and Responsibilities of Participatory Digital Mapping: Links and Resources” Google Doc

• Winichakul, Thongchai, “Maps and the Formation of the Geo-Body of Siam,” in Asian Forms of Nations, 1996

On accessibility, openness, and digitization

• Boyd, Doug, “Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview,” 2015

• Chopra, Samir and Scott Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, 2007

• Creative Commons

• Henry, Shawn Lawton, Shadi Abou-Zahra, and Judy Brewer, “The role of accessibility in a universal web,” 2014

• Kheshti, Roshanak, interviewed by Kelsey Chatlosh, “Interview: Sound recording, oral positionality, and audio as ethnographic object,” 2018

• Miele, Joshua on digital accessibility - see a review of his GC talk by Nanyamkah Mars here

• Robertson, Tara, “digitization: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should,” 2016

• Robertson, Tara, “Not all information wants to be free: ethical considerations for digitization” (slides), 2016

• Robertson, Tara and Jenna Freedman, #critlib discussion on “ethics of digitization,” 2016

• Smyth, Patrick, “Materials for Open and Accessible: A Critical Distinction at Teach@CUNY Day”

• Watters, Audrey, “Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias,” 2018 * also listed below under ‘On divisions of labor…”

• Williams, George, “Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matt Gold, 2012

• Zoanni, Tyler, “Creating an Accessible Online Presentation,” 2017

On digital pedagogy

• Josephs, Kelly Baker, “Teaching the Digital Caribbean: The Ethics of a Public Pedagogical Experiment,” 2018

• The Teaching and Learning Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Educational Technology” teaching guides

• The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (various articles)

On data security and management, and surveillance

• Barnes, Susan, “A Privacy Paradox,” 2006

• Factor, interview with Richard Stallman, “The Vanishing State of Privacy,” 2017

• Lloyd-Smith, Lindsay, “Archaeology: Principles and Practices of Digital Data Management,” 2016

• Smyth, Patrick, GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI) Information Security Workshop

• Tufekci, Zeynep, “Facebook’s Surveillance Machine,” 2018

• Zweibel, Stephen, Data Management (presentation), 2017

On ethical and political debates within the field of digital humanities (DH)

• Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, Richard Grusin, Patrick Jagoda, and Rita Raley, “The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matt Gold, 2016

• Fiormonte, Domenico, “Digital Humanities and the Geopolitics of Knowledge,” 2017

• Humanidades Digitales Library Guide, prepared by The Graduate Center, CUNY, Library with the GC Digital Fellows

• Losh, Elizabeth, and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors, Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, 2018

• Losh, Elizabeth, “Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matt Gold, 2012

• McPherson, Tara, “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matt Gold, 2012

On divisions of labor on digital projects and “digital carework” (Risam 2018)

• Mirza, Rafia, Brett Currier and Peace Ossom Williamson, “Memorandum of Understanding Collection” - MOUs to apply for large scale collaborative projects

• Risam, Roopika, “Diversity work and digital carework in higher education,” 2018

• Watters, Audrey, “Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias,” 2018

On labor, political economy, and technology

• Biao, Xiang, Global Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry, 2007

• Davidson, Elsa, The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley, 2011

On post- / de- / anti- colonial digital humanities (DH)

• Koh, Adeline and Roopika Risam, Postcolonial Digital Humanities (website)

• Morford, Ashley and Arun Jacob, session leaders, “Let’s Plan a Course: Bringing the Anti-, De-, & Post-Colonial into Digital Space, Time, & Pedagogy” at DHSI 2017 (unconference session notes)

• Risam, Roopika, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, 2018

Some examples of anti-colonial digital projects and research

• Design for Diversity project

• Duarte, Marisa Elena, Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country, 2017

• Haas, Angela, “Wampum as Hypertext,” 2007

• Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World (mapping project)

• Native-Land.ca (mapping project)

• Senier, Siobhan, “Indigenizing Wikipedia,” 2015

• The #StandingRockSyllabus

On digital activism, its possibilities and its limitations

• Costanza-Chock, Sasha, Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement, 2014

• Cox, Aimee, “The Choreography of Survival,” 2015

• Checker, Melissa, “Stop FEMA Now: Social media, activism and the sacrificed citizen,” 2016

• Martineau, Jarret, “Rhythms of Change: Mobilizing Decolonial Consciousness, Indigenous Resurgence and the Idle No More Movement,” in More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence, ed. Elaine Coburn, 2015

• Tufekci, Zeynep, “After the Protests,” 2014

• Tufekci, Zeynep, Twitter and Teargas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, 2017