New England American Studies Association presentation - October 13, 2012

Public Digital Humanities

Digital Public Humanities

Digital Public Humanities Steven Lubar Brown University NEASA Conference Providence, RI October 2012

Digital HumanitiesPublic Humanities

Digital Humanities Public HumanitiesHow much do they overlap?

Digital Humanities Public HumanitiesHow much do they overlap?How can they overlap more?

What if?We said that public humanities should be fifty percent digital?

What if?We said that digital humanities should be fifty percent public?

Venn Diagram!

Venn Diagram!The Humanities

Venn Diagram!The Humanities Open Humanities

Venn Diagram!The Humanities “The open humanities are those aspects of the humanities aimed at democratizing production and consumption of humanities research.” --Eric Johnson Open Humanities www.scholarslab.org

Venn Diagram!The Humanities “The open humanities are those Public aspects of the humanities Humanities aimed at democratizing production and consumption of humanities research.” --Eric Johnson Open Humanities www.scholarslab.org

Venn Diagram!The Humanities Digital Humanities “The open humanities are those Public aspects of the humanities Humanities aimed at democratizing production and consumption of humanities research.” --Eric Johnson Open Humanities www.scholarslab.org

Venn Diagram!The Humanities Digital Humanities Public Humanities Open Humanities

Topics • Museum Collections • Geospatial/ LandscapesThe Humanities • Oral histories • Public Digital Connections Humanities Public Humanities Open Humanities

Tools • Databases • Social Media • Visualization • Spatial AnalysisThe Humanities Digital Humanities Public Humanities Open Humanities

Style • Collaboration • Open Access • Open-sourceThe Humanities • Inclusivity • Interdisciplinary Digital • “Communities of Humanities Passion” Public Humanities Open Humanities

Many visions ofdigital humanities

digital humanities Many visions of • Humanities computing • Media literacies • Insurgency • Public Questions • Cultural Heritage • Digital public sphere • New modes of outreach

digital humanities Many visions of Digital humanities scholars use computational methods either to answer existing research questions or to challenge existing theoretical paradigms, generating new questions and pioneering new approaches. --Wikipedia

digital humanities Many visions of ...a visionary humanities program that addressed the critical needs of literacies for the twenty-first century. That would not have to be all we need to do, but why we arent making that our mission, staking that as our invaluable inestimable value in a radically changing world, is beyond my comprehension. --Cathy Davidson

digital humanities Many visions of “The digital humanities should not be about the digital at all. It’s all about innovation and disruption. The digital humanities is really an insurgent humanities” --Mark Sample

digital humanities Many visions of The problem is not the humanities as a discipline... the problem is its members. We are insufferable. We do not want change. We do not want centrality. We do not want to speak to nor interact with the world. We mistake the tiny pastures of private ideals with the megalopolis of real lives. [We dismiss the] ambitions of the public at large—religion, economy, family, craft, science. --Ian Bogost

digital humanities Many visions of We should place the world’s cultural heritage—its historical documentation, its literary and artistic achievements, its languages, beliefs, and practices— within the reach of every citizen. The value of building an infrastructure that gives all citizens access to the human record and the opportunity to participate in its creation and use is enormous. --John Unsworth

digital humanities The Digital Humanities seeks to Many visions of play an inaugural role with respect to a world in which, no longer the sole producers, stewards, and disseminators of knowledge or culture, universities are called upon to shape natively digital models of scholarly discourse for the newly emergent public spheres of the present era. --Digital Humanities Manifesto

digital humanities Many visions of New ways of representing our scholarship—integrating text, image, sound, and video—are emerging, as are new ways of disseminating it to ever broader publics. --Kathleen Woodward

digital humanities Many visions of • Humanities computing • Media literacies • Public Audience • Public Questions • Cultural Heritage • Digital public sphere • New modes of outreach

What if?We set out to teach it this way

Public Humanities Theory AMST2650: Introduction to Public Humanities

Culture Community Curation What groupings What toHow do groups make sense to preserve, how toand people enact themselves and interpret, foridentity? to us? whom? New groups New challengesNew forms of emerge; digital of preservation,culture online communities broader more fluid definitionMore fluidity, openness, but the categories still work.

Us Them YouPublic historians, The “other”, us in The audience,museum people, the past, the readers, historicinterpreters, “community”, the site and museumexperts object of display visitors, tourists New audiences;We need new New ways for audiencetools; expertise them to present becomes co-challenged themselves creatorsHow do relationship between categories change?Categories become fuzzier; are they still useful?New tools allow for disintermediation

Museum Memories HistoricArtifacts and Stories Landscapes

Museum Memories HistoricArtifacts and Stories Landscapes CuratorsMuseumVisitors

Museum Memories HistoricArtifacts and Stories Landscapes Curators Oral HistoriansMuseum ResearchersVisitors and the public

Museum Memories HistoricArtifacts and Stories Landscapes Curators Oral Historians PreservationistsMuseum Researchers CulturalVisitors and the public Heritage

Museum Memories HistoricArtifacts and Stories LandscapesDisintermediation Curators Oral Historians PreservationistsMuseum Researchers CulturalVisitors and the public Heritage

What new categories if the course were “born digital”?

What new categories if the course were “born digital”?• Texts / Connections / Visualizations

What new categories if the course were “born digital”?• Texts / Connections / Visualizations• Markup / Metadata / Modeling

What new categories if the course were “born digital”?• Texts / Connections / Visualizations• Markup / Metadata / Modeling• Database / Network / Interaction

Digital / Public Theory• Texts / • Culture / Connections / Community / Visualizations Curation• Markup / • Us / Metadata / Them / Modeling You• Database / Network / Interaction

Digital / Public Theory • Texts / Culture / Them • Us / Visualizations / Modeling / Curation • You / Interaction / Community / Connections

Public Humanities Practice AMST1550: Methods in Public Humanities

History and MemoryCulture and CommunityPreservation and RepresentationRemember and SaveClassify and ValuePreserve and Interpret

Topics• Museums: • Cultural Heritage: Collections, Property, Planning, Exhibitions, Tourism Education, Outreach • Civic Engagement• Historic • Public Art Preservation • Creative Economy• Oral History • Non-profit• Community Memory Organizations

Projects• Exhibitions - Labels, • Program proposal design, installation, public programs • Proposal to increase participation at a local• Exhibit review museum• Collecting proposal • Community outreach programs• National register nomination • Grant proposal• Memoranda to boss on • Plan to assess a public contentious topic, and program letter to the editor

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What if?We set out to teach it this way

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DH: Tools and Topics Key Concept: Data and More Terms I Expected to See & Technologies Taught in DH Interaction  Openness Key Concept: Network" " Copyright" Database" Of…" Courses" Term" Term" Frequency" # Uses" #Courses" argument" xml" 107" 54" 19" statistics" TEI" 59" 50" •  “Ability to assess digital data for preservability” (Salo, “Digital 15" programming" survey the •  curation”)  9832B is a studiodigital humanities, internet 16" •  “The course as Innovation: distributed cooperation (what47" “Openness will canʼt Omeka" •  “History 51" course on interactive exhibit "history, network society…”“IntroductionMyers, “Seminar in be coordinated?)” (Kelty, (Tullos and to Openness”" representation" •  “Our goal forthis course is to build a database-driven PHP"Scholarship historians.” Studies”) 38" design in public Digital and Media (Turkel)  32" 5" interpretation" " •  " “How does interactive, do-it-yourself open source remix28" website” (Quamen, “Technical Approaches & Concepts”)  11" Zotero" 35" • accessibility"INTERACTIVE FICTION (Sample, “textual 14" WEEK 4 // •  "“Tuesday, change what constitutes (Rheingold, property? 1" potential October 26 (Networks)” intellectual “Virtual Perl" 24" media”" •  “We believe that a systematic use of large-scale analysis sustainability" Community/Social Media”)   Literacies”)" “ (Davidson, “21st Century 9" " SQL/mySQL" and interactive visualization of cultural data will become a 3" 19" " “What is interaction design?” (Mazalek, “Principles of • algorithmic" humanities research in the coming •  majorRosenzweig, “Can History be Open Source?” (Price,7" •  Apr 22: Thein “R. trend Networked Book (Fitzpatrick, “digital media Interaction Design”)" decades.” (Manovich, “Theories of Media and New Media”)" theory”)" History”" “Hacking

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Public Digital Tools

Public Digital Tools Content Omeka,Collections Mangement Pinterest Systems Multimedia/Story-telling Digital Storify, iMovie StorytellingFund-raising Viral Marketing Kickstarter

Disability History Pinterest

National Heritage Day Storify

Everhart Museum Kickstarter

Tools Topics StyleThe Humanities Digital Humanities Public Humanities Open Humanities

Why go digital?

Why go digital?It’s therealworld!

Why go digital?Itdemandsrigor

Why go digital?It is openand public:“a utopiancore”

Why go digital?It allowsanddemands amorecomplexview ofcommunity

Why go digital?Sarah Morris, UT-Austin

Why go digital? It has a maker, collabor- ative mentalitySarah Morris, UT-Austin

Why go digital?

Why go digital?It’s wherethe jobsare.

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