1. Doing DH in This Course: Practical First Steps

• Introduction to working on the Student Work site for this course

• Wiki membership (example of invitation to join "workspace")

• The nature of a wiki and "Editor" level user permissions (PBWorks permission levels)

• Basic editing, linking, and uploading procedures:

• Go to the Student Work branch of the course site.

• Log in

• Edit an existing page
• GUI vs. source-code view
• adding a link
• adding an image
• uploading content (images, docs, pdfs, etc.)
• Create a new page
• Through the Pages & Files menu
• By creating a link to still to be created page
• Putting a page in a folder
• Wiki editing help available in sidebar of site
• "Page history" (versioning) feature

• Practicum Assignment for Class 3 (Encoding) 

• Basic Twitter
• List of class members on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alanyliu/lists/english-238-ucsb-w2017/members
• Seed list of DH scholars: https://twitter.com/alanyliu/lists/seed-list-of-dh-scholars/members
• Twitter client= programs -- e.g.,
• Twitter
• Tweetdeck
• Twitterific (for iOS)
• Hootsuite
• Twitter tools & search -- e.g.,
• Twitter analytics
• Hootsuite (scheduled posting, analytics)
• TweetsMap (analyzes and maps geographical location of one's Twitter followers)
• Visible Tweets ("Visible Tweets is a visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public space")
• [For more tools, see "Big List of Twitter Tools"]
• Twitter Best Practices & Protocol:
• Content of tweets:
• Links and link-shortener services (e.g., Bitly)
• Photos, videos
• Following
• Subscribing to lists
• Retweeting
• Retweeting with comment (and quoted original tweet)
• Replying
• Threading posts (reply to yourself)
• Mentioning (vs. "subtweeting")
• Crediting "via @username" or "H/T @username")
• Favoriting
• Common abbreviations: +1, <3, ICYMI

• Blog / Content Management System Platforms (e.g., WordPress.com, WordPress.org)
• Some sites that suggest or compare blogging platforms: 1 | 2 | 3 
• Reclaim Hosting (e.g., alanyliu.org)

Materials for Discussion Today

      Materials from Class 1:

• Focal Readings ("focal readings" are chosen to prompt discussion in class)
• Plato, from Phaedrus (the myth of Theuth and the invention of writing) [PDF]
• Hippolyte Taine, "Introduction" to History of English Literature (1863) [online in sequential sections:  I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII
• Marshall McLuhan, excerpts from Understanding Media (1964) (read excerpts from "Introduction" and "The Medium is the Message")
• N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012), read pp. 27-31 on "Scale Matters" [PDF] (Google Books version)
• Alan Liu, "N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities" (2016)
• Other Readings ("other readings" support or expand on themes of a particular class; students are free to browse, skip, or read at will)
• Drew S. Burk, "Living Network Ecologies: A Triptych on the Universe of Fernand Deligny -- Part 1" (2013)
• See also on Deligny's "wander lines": Cartes et lignes d'erre 

      Materials from Class 2 (selected):

• Focal Readings Readings representing some of the key issues that have defined/are defining the digital humanities:
• Alan Liu, "Is Digital Humanities a Field? ‒ An Answer from the Point of View of Language" (2016) [PDF]
• Matthew Jockers, "Welcome to the Big Tent," DH 2011 conference, Stanford U., 19-22 June 2011.
• Stephen Ramsay, "On Building" (2011)
• Natalia Cecire, "Theory and the Virtues of Digital Humanities" (Introduction to section on "Conversations"), Journal of Digital Humanities 1.1 [PDF] (Winter 2011): 44-53.
• Alan Liu, "Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" (2012)
• Moya Bailey, Anne Cong-Huyen, Alexis Lothian, and Amanda Phillips, "Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, Growing Up" (2016)
• Miriam Posner, "What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities" (2016)
• Kim Gallon, "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities" (2016)
• Elizabeth Losh, Jacqueline Wernimont, Laura Wexler, and Hong-an Wu, "Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess" (2016)
• Domenico Fiormonte, "Toward a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities" (2016)
• GO::DH (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities) [browse site]
• Other Readings
• Early History of Field:
• From "Humanities Computing" to Digital Humanities":
• Susan Hockey, "The History of Humanities Computing" (2004)
• John Unsworth, "What’s 'Digital Humanities' and How Did It Get Here?" (2012)
• Meredith Hindley, "The Rise of the Machines--NEH and the Digital Humanities: The Early Years" (2013)
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "What is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?" [PDF] (2010)
• The early hypertext moment and hypertext literature:
• Robert Coover, "Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age" (1999)

2. Discussion (part 1)

• Class 2 diagram.pptx  
• Plato
• Taine: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII
• McLuhan, excerpts from Understanding Media
• N. Katherine Hayles,  pp. 27-31 on "Scale Matters" [PDF]
• Alan Liu, "N + 1"
• Drew S. Burk, "Living Network Ecologies: A Triptych on the Universe of Fernand Deligny -- Part 1" (2013)
• See also on Deligny's "wander lines": Cartes et lignes d'erre 
• Kim Gallon, "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities" (2016)
• Elizabeth Losh, Jacqueline Wernimont, Laura Wexler, and Hong-an Wu, "Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess" (2016)

3. Discussion (part 2)

• What is the shape of the field?
• What are defining issues in the field?
• What is the historical/future trajectory of the field?
• What is the relation of DH to the humanities?
• Class 2 diagram-b.pptx  

4. Preview of next class (Class 3)