Readings Due:
- Mandell, Laura. “Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes?” Debates in the Digital Humanities. Eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein. Minnesota: U of Minn Press, 2019.
- Salganik, Matthew J. “Chapter 1: Introduction” Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2018. pp 1-9. [PDF in the Commons]
- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. “ChapterTwo: On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints.” Data Feminism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/5evfe9yd/release/3?readingCollection=0cd867ef [This latter link is to a recorded webinar on the chapter assigned for reading]
- Ted Underwood. “Seven Ways Humanists are Using Computers to Understand Text.” The Stone and the Shell, 14 Aug. 2012, https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/
Optional
- Safiya Umoja Noble, “Searching for Black Girls” Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press, 2018 [PDF in Commons]
- You can also watch a lecture version of this portion of Noble’s book here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqelqdDIDSs.
Notebook Activity:
- UPDATE: You can download a zip file of the Week 5 assignment on our GitHub repository.
- Note: you will not need all the files in this repository. You will only be working with Week5_fall2020.ipynb.
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