Digital humanities (DH) is the study of culture using digital methods and also the study of digital culture. In digital humanities, we analyze cultural materials and tell stories using digital technologies while maintaining a critical lens.
In this course, students will explore a broad spectrum of perspectives on the digital humanities, analyze digital projects, experiment with practical tools for inquiry, and create a digital humanities research project of their own design. Students will become more thoughtful, critical, and reflective users of digital tools, technologies, and spaces by understanding that all technologies are complex, socially situated, and political tools through which humans make meaning.
This course is offered in Fall 2023 through Michigan State University as DH285: Introduction to Digital Humanities.
Background image: Words that remake the world. Version 1.01 (Vision of the Seeker 2016-2018) by Nye Thompson, in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. “The digital print charts a series of written descriptions detailing what The Seeker, an autonomous machine that identifies video streams across the globe, saw. The Seeker is a prototype AI system that looks through compromised surveillance cameras and uses machine learning algorithms to describe its visions. The digital print is a topographical map of these visions.”