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Understanding Digital Culture
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Course name

Understanding Digital Culture

Instructor

Dr. Anastasia Salter & Dr. Mel Stanfill, UCF

Faculty: Dr. Amy Larner Giroux, Dr. Stephanie Vie, Dr. Jennifer de Winter, Dr. Leonardo Flores, Dr. Bridget Blodgett, Dr. Catherine Knight Steele, and Dr. Louise Kane. Graduate Assistants: Rachel Winter and Lauren Rouse

Course Description

Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research, a transdisciplinary NEH-funded Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Institute hosted by the University of Central Florida, was held June 1-5, 2020 virtually due to COVID-19. Understanding Digital Culture provided resources, training, and a community of collaborators to engage both computational network and data analysis tools and the ethics and best practices of using the web as a site of research. This course is the open-access version of materials from the live institute.

Course Materials

    Modules

  • Module 1.1: Intro to Platforms
  • Module 1.2: Twitter and YouTube
  • Module 1.3: Reddit and GitHub
  • Module 2.1: Intro to Digital Ethics
  • Module 2.2: Platform Literacy
  • Module 2.3: Best Practices
  • Module 3.1: Intro to Data Tools
  • Module 3.2: Twitter and YouTube
  • Module 3.3: Reddit and GitHub
  • Module 3.4: Document-Driven Research
  • Module 4.1: Intro to Data Visualization
  • Module 4.2: Intro to Orange
  • Module 4.3: Intro to Gephi
  • Module 4.4: Data Analysis
  • Module 5.1: Intro and Making Bots

Institute Summary

There has been growing awareness of the need for humanist inquiry into the internet platforms and communities driving contemporary culture. From fan communities and discourse about works of literature to meme-makers skewering cultural objects, online spaces enable readership, creation, circulation, and transformation of humanist texts—and the active making and remaking of public history.

However, much internet research is driven by computational approaches without also being rigorously grounded in theories of culture and textual production. Navigating this space can be particularly daunting to early-career humanities scholars. This is where we seek to intervene.

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