{"id":9,"date":"2015-01-17T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2015-04-16T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T16:32:28","slug":"calendar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of Data<\/h2>\n<h4>Tuesday, January 13 (Week 1)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to the class and its themes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shardcore.org\/shardpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/12\/machine-imagined-artworks-2013\/\">Machine Imagined Artworks<\/a>, based on data from The Tate<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaw.ca\/2011\/11\/17\/the-anatomy-of-a-tweet-metadata-on-twitter\/\">The Anatomy of a Tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, January 15<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Jorge Luis Borges, \u201cThe Library of Babel\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Fortune, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/vvvnt.com\/media\/history-of-databases\">A Brief History of Databases<\/a>\u201d (2014)<\/li>\n<li>John Durham Peters, \u201cInformation: Notes Toward a Critical History,\u201d <em>Journal of Communication Inquiry<\/em> 12 (1988): 9-23. (<a href=\"http:\/\/jci.sagepub.com.ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu\/content\/12\/2\/9\">e-journal<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, January 20 (Week 2)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Wright, \u201cNetworks and Hierarchies\u201d from <em>Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages<\/em> (2007) (e-book and Moodle)<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Rosenberg, \u201cData before the Fact\u201d from <em>\u201cRaw Data\u201d is an Oxymoron<\/em>, ed. Lisa Gitelman (2013)<\/li>\n<li>Jorge Luis Borges, \u201cThe Aleph\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, January 22<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Poster, \u201c<a title=\"Poster \u2013 Databases as Discourse\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/poster-databases-as-discourse.pdf\">Databases as Discourse<\/a>\u201d from <em>The Second Media Age<\/em> (1995)<\/li>\n<li>Lev Manovich, \u201c<a title=\"Manovich \u2013 Database and Narrative\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/manovich-database-and-narrative.pdf\">The Database<\/a>\u201d from <em>The Language of New Media<\/em> (2001)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Data and Power<\/h2>\n<h4>Tuesday, January 27 (Week 3)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 1 (Readers); Group 2 (N\/A); Group 3 (Responders); Group 4 (N\/A); Group 5 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li>David Lyon, &#8220;<a title=\"Lyon \u2013 From Big Brother to Electric Panopticon\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/lyon-from-big-brother-to-electric-panopticon.pdf\">From Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon<\/a>&#8221; from <em>The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society <\/em>(1994)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, January 29<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Finn, <a title=\"Jonathan Finn \u2013 Introduction and Chapter 4 from *The Criminal Image*\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/jonathan-finn-introduction-and-chapter-4-from-the-criminal-image.pdf\">Introduction and &#8220;Visible Criminality: Data Collection, Border Security, and Public Display&#8221;<\/a> from <em>Capturing the Criminal Image: From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society <\/em>(2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 3 (Week 4)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 2 (Readers); Group 3 (N\/A); Group 4 (Responders); Group 5 (N\/A); Group 1 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li>Lauren\u00a0Klein, <a title=\"Klein \u2013 The Image of Absence\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/klein-the-image-of-absence.pdf\">\u201cThe Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings.\u201d<\/a> <em>American Literature<\/em> 85, no. 4 (January 1, 2013): 661\u201388.<\/li>\n<li>Micki Kaufman, \u201c\u2018Everything on Paper Will be Used Against Me\u2019: Quantifying Kissinger\u201d (2014) [<em>Directions: <\/em>Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.quantifyingkissinger.com\/\">video<\/a>, then drill down to view different <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.quantifyingkissinger.com\/category\/methods\">methods<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.quantifyingkissinger.com\/category\/visualizations\">visualizations<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rotunda.upress.virginia.edu\/founders\/TSJN\">The Papers of Thomas Jefferson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 5<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Rita Raley, <a href=\"http:\/\/raley.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/DV-uncorrected-proofs.pdf\">\u201cDataveillance and Countervailance\u201d<\/a> from <em>\u201cRaw Data\u201d Is an Oxymoron<\/em>, ed. Lisa Gitelman (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 10 (Week 5)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 3 (Readers); Group 4 (N\/A); Group 5 (Responders); Group 1 (NA); Group 2 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/interactive\/2013\/nov\/01\/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded\">\u201cNSA Files Decoded: What the Revelations Mean for You\u201d<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 12<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss Data Critique datasets in class<\/li>\n<li>* Data Critique Due on Monday 2\/16 *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Big Data and Visualization<\/h2>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 17 (Week 6)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 4 (Readers); Group 5 (N\/A); Group 1 (Responders); Group 2 (NA); Group 3 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li>Lev Manovich, <a title=\"Manovich \u2013 Trending\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/manovich-trending.pdf\">\u201cTrending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data\u201d<\/a> from <em>Debates in the Digital Humanities<\/em> (2012)<\/li>\n<li>Alice Marwick, <a title=\"Deeply Mined Data \u2013 Marwick\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/deeply-mined-data-marwick.pdf\">\u201cHow Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined\u201d<\/a> from <em>The New York Review of Books <\/em>(2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 19<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>danah boyd and Kate Crawford,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/1369118X.2012.678878\">Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon,<\/a><em> Information, Communication, and Society\u00a0<\/em>15:5, 2012, 662-679<\/li>\n<li>Steven Salzberg, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/genome.fieldofscience.com\/2014\/03\/why-google-flu-is-failure-hubris-of-big.html?spref=tw\">Why Google Flu is a Failure: The Hubris of Big Data<\/a>\u201d (2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 24 (Week 7)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 5 (Readers); Group 1 (N\/A); Group 2 (Responders); Group 3 (NA); Group 4 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li>Lev Manovich, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/cmns\/courses\/2011\/325\/Readings\/What_is_Visualization.pdf\">\u201cWhat is Visualization?\u201d<\/a> from <em>Visual Studies <\/em>1 (2011)<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, selections from <a title=\"Excerpts from Cartographies of Time\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/excerpts-from-cartographies-of-time.pdf\"><em>Cartographies of Time: A History of\u00a0the Timeline<\/em><\/a> (2010)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Monmonier, selections from\u00a0<a title=\"Monmonier \u2013 How to Lie with Maps\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/monmonier-how-to-lie-with-maps.pdf\"><em>How to Lie with Maps <\/em><\/a>(1996)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 26<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Lev Manovich, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lab.softwarestudies.com\/2012\/10\/data-stream-database-timeline-new.html\">Data Stream, Database, Timeline<\/a>\u201d (2012)<\/li>\n<li>Edward Tufte, selections from <a title=\"Tufte \u2013 Envisioning Information\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/tufte-envisioning-information.pdf\"><em>Envisioning Information <\/em><\/a>(1990)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/world\/27powerpoint.html?_r=1\">&#8220;We Have Met the Enemy and He is Powerpoint&#8221;<\/a> from <em>The New York Times <\/em>(2010)<\/li>\n<li>In class: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Joseph_Minard#Work\">Charles Joseph Minard<\/a> and Example of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/449136\/Traffic.xlsx\">Bad Chart<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In Class: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1ZIgT1DFpuzkFTzDw-NW-8B9HS-nFJV8-kTwxtP0uFTI\/viewform?usp=send_form\">Network Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>March 3 &amp; 5 (Week 8)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring Break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Small Data<\/h2>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 10 (Week 9)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 1 (Readers); Group 2 (N\/A); Group 3 (Responders); Group 4 (N\/A); Group 5 (Observers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 12<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ulises Ali Mejias, <a title=\"Mejias \u2013 Computers as Socializing Tools\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/mejias-computers-as-socializing-tools.pdf\">&#8220;Computers as Socializing Tools&#8221;<\/a> from <em>Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World<\/em> (2013)<\/li>\n<li>David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/home\/kleinber\/networks-book\/networks-book-ch02.pdf\">&#8220;Graphs&#8221;<\/a> from <em>Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World<\/em> (2010)<\/li>\n<li>Whitney Erin Boesel, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/data-occupations\/\">Data Occupations<\/a>\u201d from <em>New Inquiry<\/em> (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 17 (Week 10)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 2 (Readers); Group 3 (N\/A); Group 4 (Responders); Group 5 (N\/A); Group 1 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li>Anne Helen Petersen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/annehelenpetersen\/the-track-everything-revolution-is-here-to-improve-you-wheth#.suZmeNNJ2\">\u201cBig Mother Is Watching You: The Track-Everything Revolution Is Here Whether You Want It Or Not\u201d<\/a> from <em>BuzzFeed<\/em> (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Isabel Pedersen, <a title=\"Isabel Pedersen \u2013 Augmented Memory\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/isabel-pedersen-augmented-memory.pdf\">&#8220;Augmented Memory, Digital Life, and Computers that Promise to Remember Everything&#8221;<\/a> from <em>Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media<\/em> (2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feltron.com\/\">Feltron Annual Reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stephen Wolfram, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stephenwolfram.com\/2012\/03\/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life\/\">The Personal Analytics of My Life<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 12<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Gephi and GraphViz workshops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Data, Art, and Memory<\/h2>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 26 (Week 11)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 3 (Readers); Group 4 (N\/A); Group 5 (Responders); Group 1 (N\/A); Group 2 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li>John Foreman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-foreman.com\/1\/post\/2014\/02\/data-privacy-machine-learning-and-the-destruction-of-mysterious-humanity.html\">\u201cData Privacy, Machine Learning, and the Destruction of Mysterious Humanity\u201d<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Sharon Daniel, <a title=\"Sharon Daniel \u2013 Database and Dignity\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/sharon-daniel-database-and-dignity.pdf\">\u201cThe Database: An Aesthetic of Dignity\u201d<\/a> from <em>Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow <\/em>(2007)<\/li>\n<li>In class: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111214004318\/http:\/\/janalange.de\/projects\/sumedicina\">Sumedicina<\/a> data fiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/everythingisgoingtobeok.net\/\">Everything is Going to be OK<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hirmes.com\/aleph\/\">The Aleph: Infinite Wonder<\/a> by David Hirmes, <a href=\"http:\/\/turbulence.org\/Works\/notime\/index2.html\">No Time Machine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 28<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/11\/25\/7276157\/nanogenmo-robot-author-novel\">The strange world of computer-generated novels<\/a> on <em>The Verge<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wgbh.org\/innovation-hub\/2015\/3\/18\/written-robot\/\">Robots Become Writers<\/a> on WGBH<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decontextualize.com\/2015\/01\/i-waded-in-clear-water\/\">I Waded In Clear Water<\/a> by Allison Parrish<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.safaribooksonline.com\/2014\/11\/08\/nanogenmo2014-procedurally-generated-mysterious-codex\/\">NaNoGenMo 2014: A procedurally generated mysterious codex<\/a> by Liza Daly<\/li>\n<li>Common Datasets for computer-generated writing: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/MorphologyOfTheFolkTale\/v2\">Propp&#8217;s Morphology of the Russian Folktale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/conceptnet5.media.mit.edu\/\">ConceptNet<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freebase.com\/\">Freebase<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dariusk\/corpora\">dariusk\/corpora<\/a>,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 31 (Week 12)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 4 (Readers); Group 5 (N\/A); Group 1 (Responders); Group 2 (N\/A); Group 3 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Harris, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thewhalehunt.org\/\">The Whale Hunt<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Joyce Walker, <a title=\"Walker \u2013 Narratives in the Database\" href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/walker-narratives-in-the-database.pdf\">\u201cNarratives in the Database: Memorializing September 11th Online.\u201d<\/a> <em>Computers and Composition <\/em>2 (2007): 121\u2013153.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 2<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>* Quantified Self Assignment Due *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, April 7 (Week 13)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>No Class on April 7 (Easter Break)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Data and Fiction<\/h2>\n<h4>Thursday, April 9<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dave Eggers, <em>The Circle <\/em>(2013), pages 1-101<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, April 14 (Week 14)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging: Group 5 (Readers); Group 1 (N\/A); Group 2 (Responders); Group 3 (N\/A); Group 4 (Observers)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Circle<\/em>, pages 102-205<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 16<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Circle<\/em>, pages 206-306<\/li>\n<li>Proposal for &#8220;data-based&#8221; final project due (250 words in which you identify the set of data you wish to work with and imagine what sort of arguments or claims you might wish to make about the data)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Circle<\/em> collaborative essays (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10PJWXKwSAGMB2mBmSJ_YfEMXXZGHOGqzldyRXNJrv6c\/edit\">A-K<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1HxbbBv0Su7RCu9D-OjJ8MuQVLeG1YxjhGuoctD42rB0\/edit\">L-Z<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, April 21 (Week 15)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Circle<\/em>, pages 307-402<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 22<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Circle<\/em>, pages 403-497<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, April 28 (Week 16)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>End of Semester Wrap-Up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 30<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Optional Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Final Exam Period<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>* Data-Based Project due by May 13 *<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of Data Tuesday, January 13 (Week 1) Introduction to the class and its themes Machine Imagined Artworks, based on data from The Tate The Anatomy of a Tweet Thursday, January 15 Jorge Luis Borges, \u201cThe Library of Babel\u201d Stephen Fortune, \u201cA Brief History of Databases\u201d (2014) John Durham Peters, \u201cInformation: Notes Toward a Critical &hellip; 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