April 17: Studio DH +++

This final class class in the Studio DH module will focus on hacking. From its initial pejorative associations with illicit computer activity, “hacking” (and its politicized nominal, hacktavism) have entered the collective lexicon as terms for a wide spectrum of behaviors, most having to do with disruption, circumvention, modification, and intervention. What does it mean to think about the role of “hacking” in the humanities? Does one have to be a hacker to be a digital humanist? What does hacking have to do with writing code? With building things? And with things?

READINGS

Presentation: Cliffie

http://boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/anonymous-ops.jpeg?w=942

Image: http://bgr.com/2012/04/19/time-accused-of-hacking-anonymous-hackers-position-on-time-100-list/

EXERCISE

Your Twine story (or game) is due. You may submit the HTML output file to me either via email or on a thumb drive (which I am happy to return). You may also place it on the Web and simply send me the URL. This portion of the exercise will receive a letter grade.

FIELDWORK AUDIT

Please send a brief accounting of your fieldwork activities to date (including points earned) to me by the time the class meets.

FIELDWORK

Digital Dialogues

 

04/16/13 Katie Shilton, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies | University of Maryland MITH Conference Room
Finding Values Levers: Building Ethics into Emerging Technologies
Time: 12:30pm. Admittance: Open to the Public. Address: 0301 Hornbake Library, University of Maryland.

Dean’s Lecture Series: Cathy Davidson in Conversation

 

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