Class 8 Notes
Preliminary Class Business
Visual epigraph for today's class
Our blogs
Preview of readings and practicum for
Class 9
Mock Project Proposal assignment
Guidelines and Examples
NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) Guidelines
(you can scale your project for a Level 1 or Level 2 version of this grant)
RoSE Project example
(submitted for earlier version of Level 2 DHAG grant, then called "Digital Humanities Start-up Grants")
Examples of student mock proposals from 2014 version of this course
Format of a grant proposal
(approximately)
Abstract
Narrative
"Environmental scan"
Methods & Technology
Work plan & schedule
Consider staged or modular work plans, starting with what you or a small group of you could do.
Budget
Cf.,
RoSE Proposal Budget
; cf.,
NEH Digital Advancement Grant sample budget
.
Funding request + "cost share"
Direct costs +
indirect costs
GSR's vs. RA's
Hours of work & kinds of work
Benefits
Method of project evaluation
Dissemination
Sustainability
Final Steps
Post in some format in
Project Prospectuses
folder
12-minute presentations (followed by discussion) during final class
If you wish, prepare separately from your prospectus a presentation version (or materials for your presentation) and upload them to another page in the Project Prospectuses folder.
1. Conceptual Framework: . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1
class8-powerpoint.pptx
2. Discussion
Materials for Discussion Today
Focal Readings
Timelines
Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton,
Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline
(2013)
Synopsis, quotations, and illustrations from the book
from a Williams College 2011 course, "THEA 228: The Cartographic Imagination".
Archives
Luciana Duranti,
"Archives as a Place"
(1996)
Kate Theimer,
"Archives in Context and as Context"
(2012)
Yuk Hui,
"Archivist Manifesto"
(2013)
Media Archaeology
Friedrich A. Kittler, from
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
(1986, trans. 1999),
"Preface" and "Introduction" [PDF]
Wolfgang Ernst, from
Digital Memory and the Archive
[PDF]
(ed. Jussi Parikka, 2013). Read the two following essays:
"Archives in Transition: Dynamic Media Memories"
"Experimenting with Media Temporality: Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing"
Jussi Parikka, from
What is Media Archaeology
(2012),
"Archive Dynamics: Software Culture and Digital Heritage"
(course password required)
Lisa Gitelman, from
Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture
(2006),
"Introduction: Media as Historical Subjects"
(course password required)
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, from
Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination
(2008),
"'Every Contact Leaves a Trace': Storage, Inscription, and Computer Forensics,"
pp. 36-50
(course password required)
Other Readings
Alan Liu,
"Imagining the New Media Encounter"
(2008)
class8-powerpoint.pptx
3. Our Temporality Practicums
Practicum for Class 8 - Temporality Exercises
Giorgina