# Select a Date for the Discussion Lead

**n.b. Each day can have up to 2 discussion leaders, but no more.**

24 Sept **What are Data?**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE:**

*Read*
*Data Feminism*: ["Introduction: Why Data Needs Feminism"](https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/frfa9szd/release/3) and [6. The Numbers Don't Speak for Themselves](https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/czq9dfs5/release/2)
Gitelman and Jackson, "Introduction" to *'Raw Data' is an Oxymoron* (Available online at NU Library site. Let me know if you need a PDF.)
Miriam Posner, ["How did they make that?"](http://miriamposner.com/blog/how-did-they-make-that/)

*Explore*
[Voyant](https://voyant-tools.org/)
[Palladio](http://hdlab.stanford.edu/projects/palladio/)
[RAWGraphs](https://rawgraphs.io/)
[For all of the above, use the sample datasets and explore the tools' *attitudes* toward data.]
[The Data-Sitters Club](https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/)

1 Oct **Histories and Archives**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE: Eliza Feero **

*Read*
Buurma and Heffernan, ["Josephine Miles and the Origins of Distant Reading"](https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/search-and-replace)
Hockey, ["The History of Humanities Computing"](http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405103213/9781405103213.xml&chunk.id=ss1-2-1) (Introduction and Beginnings only)
Selection from McGann, *Radiant Textuality* (I will distribute a PDF.)

*Explore*
[Wordhoard](http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu/userman/index.html)
[The Rosetti Archive](http://www.rossettiarchive.org/index.html)
[Sea and Spar Between](https://nickm.com/montfort_strickland/sea_and_spar_between/)

8 Oct **Describe, Analyze, Compute**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE: Min Li Chan, Eshan Rafi

*Read*
Alpert-Abrams, ["Machine Reading the *Primeros Libros*"](http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/4/000268/000268.html)
Benjamin, *Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code*, Introduction and Chapter 3, Coded Exposure: Is Visibility a Trap? (available online via NU Library)
Binder, ["Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, and the Humanities"](https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/4b276a04-c110-4cba-b93d-4ded8fcfafc9#ch18)

*Explore*
[The Princeton Prosody Archive](https://prosody.princeton.edu/)
[Digital Harlem](http://digitalharlem.org/)
[Viral Texts](https://viraltexts.org/)
[Colored Conventions](https://coloredconventions.org/)

15 Oct **Modeling**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE: Smith Yarberry, Sam English

*Read*
Underwood, *Distant Horizons*: Chapter 1, "Do We Understand the Outlines of Literary History?" and Chapter 3, "The Long Arc of Prestige"
Gavin, Jennings, Kersey, Pasanek, ["Spaces of Meaning: Conceptual History, Vector Semantics, and Close Readings"](https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/4ce82b33-120f-423f-ba4c-40620913b305)

*Explore*
[Cultural Analytics](https://culturalanalytics.org/) (browse articles)
[Open Syllabus](https://opensyllabus.org/)
Underwood, Chapter 4 "Metamorphoses of Gender"
McGrath, ["America's Next Top Novel"](https://post45.org/2020/04/americas-next-top-novel/)

22 Oct **Networks**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE:** Chris Lombardo, Avey Rips

*Read*
Ahnert & Ahnert, ‘Metadata, Surveillance, and the Tudor State’, History Workshop Journal 87 (2019) (I will distribute a PDF.)
Weingart, ["Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II"](http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/demystifying-networks-by-scott-weingart/)
Zer-Aviv, ["If Everything is a Network, Nothing is a Network"](https://visualisingadvocacy.org/node/739.html)

*Explore*
[Six Degrees of Francis Bacon](http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/)
[LinkedJazz](https://linkedjazz.org/)
[Mapping the Republic of Letters](http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/)

29 Oct **Visualization**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE:** Jessica Friedman, Maria Vieytez

*Read*
Drucker, ["Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display"](http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html)
D'Ignazio and Klein, *Data Feminism*, [Chapter 7: "Show Your Work"](https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/0vgzaln4/release/2)
Wickham, ["A Layered Grammar of Graphics"](http://byrneslab.net/classes/biol607/readings/wickham_layered-grammar.pdf)

*Explore*
revisit [RAWGraphs](https://rawgraphs.io/)
[StoryMap](https://storymap.knightlab.com/)
[TimelineJS](https://timeline.knightlab.com/) (especially the "Women in Computing" example)
[The Decolonial Atlas](https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/)
[Two Plantations](http://twoplantations.com/)

5 Nov **Pedagogy and Publics**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE:** Sreddy Yen, Rio Bergh

*Read*
Risam, *New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy*, Introduction, Chapter 4: "Postcolonial Digital Pedagogy," and Conclusion: A Call to Action
Nowviskie, ["Reconstitute the World"](http://nowviskie.org/2018/reconstitute-the-world/) and [Change Us, Too](http://nowviskie.org/2019/change-us-too/)

*Explore*
[Torn Apart/Separados](http://xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/volume/1/index) -- Make sure to look at Volumes 1 & 2
[Mapping Police Violence](https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/)
[Collections as Data](https://collectionsasdata.github.io/)
[DH Syllabi Collection](/dh2020/credits)

12 Nov **New Media Possibilities and Limitations**

**YOUR NAME(S) HERE:** Serena, Emily Kamm

*Read*
Noble, *Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism*, Chapter 1: A Society, Searching, Chapter 5: The Future of Knowledge in the Public, and Conclusion
Walsh, ["Tweets of a Native Son: The Quotation and Recirculation of James Baldwin from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter"](https://muse-jhu-edu.turing.library.northwestern.edu/article/704336)
Weingart, ["The Route of a Text Message, A Love Story"](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdn8n/the-route-of-a-text-message-a-love-story)

*Explore*
[Documenting the Now](https://www.docnow.io/)
[Tweets of a Native Son](https://tweetsofanativeson.com/)
[Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer](https://datasociety.net/library/algorithmic-accountability-a-primer/)