{"id":2828,"date":"2024-09-25T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.iitgn.ac.in\/digitalstudies\/?page_id=2828"},"modified":"2024-09-25T16:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:25:05","slug":"hs-691-digital-humanities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.iitgn.ac.in\/digitalstudies\/hs-691-digital-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"HS 691 Introduction to Theories of Digital Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>HS 691 Introduction to Theories of Digital Humanities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This course is a part of special topics in HSS set, and is titled \u201cIntroduction to Theories of Digital Humanities\u201d. It primarily targets the doctoral students in Humanities and Social Sciences, who have an interest in developing their research in thematic areas that concern or are laterally connected to the Digital studies field. The course will attempt at developing a space in order to understand the conceptual threads related to the broad and emerging field of \u201cDigital Humanities\u201d. The attempt in this course is to understand the fundamental theoretical groundings of this field. We will intensively discuss theoretical and analytical texts that open various understandings of the field from the perspective of a humanities and social sciences collective. As a reading group, the plan is to \u201cread\u201d texts in detail and build a case for understanding the term \u201cDigital Humanities\u201d itself. We will begin by assessing the term techne, move into \u201ctechnology\u201d and further into \u201cDigital technology\u201d and its impact on human race. This course is also an attempt towards moving into a research cluster that creates a common primer for advanced studies in Digital Cultures and New Media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AIM\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The larger goal of the course is to provide a foundational understanding of cultural and media related theories. The course will attempt to prepare doctoral researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences to negotiate their own position in this growing framework of digital research in Humanities. It will also prepare them to handle the word \u201cdigital\u201d with responsibility and caution in their studies and provide them an insight into texts that are largely accepted in the DH study circles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>REFLECTIVE READINGS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Berry, David M. \u201cThe Computational Turn: Thinking about Digital Humanities\u201d, <em>Culture Machine<\/em>, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Burdick, Anne, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presener, Jeffery Schnapp. <em>Digital Humanities<\/em>, MIT Press, Open Access. (Selected Pieces)<\/li>\n<li>Krisch, Adams. \u201cTechnology Is Taking Over English Departments\u201d The false promise of the digital humanities\u201d, New Republic, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Liu, Alan. \u201cThe Meaning of Digital Humanities\u201d, PMLA, 128(2).<\/li>\n<li>Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. <em>A New Companion to Digital Humanities<\/em>, 2nd Edition, United States: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>G. Kirschenbaum, Matthew. \u201cWhat Is Digital Humanities and What\u2019s It Doing in English Departments?\u201d <em>ADE Bulletin<\/em> 150, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Hentschel, Klaus. Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cManaging an Established Digital Humanities Project: Principles and Practices from the Twentieth Year of the William Blake Archive\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wyver, John. The Moving Image: An International History of Film, Television &amp; Radio \u2013 Basil Blackwell Ltd in Association with the British Film Institute, 1989<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THEORETICAL TRAJECTORY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adorno, Theodore. <em>Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords<\/em>, New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.<\/li>\n<li>Bakhtin, Mikhail. \u201cDiscourse in the Novel\u201d, <em>Dialogic Imagination<\/em>, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1981.<\/li>\n<li>Bourdieu, Pierre. <em>The Field of Cultural Production<\/em>, United States: Columbia University Press, 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Castells, Manuel. <em>The Rise of the Network Society, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I.<\/em> Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1996.<\/li>\n<li>Eagleton, Terry. <em>Culture<\/em>, Yale: Yale University Press, 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cArt, Criticism and Laughter: Terry Eagleton on Aesthetics\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foucault, Michel. \u201cOf Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias\u201d, in Architecture \/Mouvement\/ Continuit\u00e9 October, 1984; (\u201cDes Espace Autres,\u201d March 1967 Translated from the French by Jay Miskowiec)<\/li>\n<li>Jameson, Fredric. <em>Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic<\/em>. London and New York: Verso. 1990.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS 691 Introduction to Theories of Digital Humanities This course is a part of special topics in HSS set, and is titled \u201cIntroduction to Theories of Digital Humanities\u201d. 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