Change over Time & Histories of Computing 🗂

Class Activities

• Read Daniel Rosenberg, “Data before the Fact” in Lisa Gitelman (ed.), “Raw Data” is an Oxymoron (2013) https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/eswg/files/rosenburg_-_rawdata.pdf or watch Rosenberg’s “Toward a Quantitative History of Data” https://youtu.be/1-DOUGbshg0
• Read “Introduction” in Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization by Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld (full book available for free through the UIUC library and also uploaded to Canvas)
• Explore Google Ngram Viewer (look for the terms Rosenberg uses like data and digital humanities, or any others that you think of!) and then read Ben Schmidt’s blog post http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

Additional Readings

• Louis T. Milic, “The Next Step,” Computers and the Humanities 1.1. (1966)
• Buurma, R. and L. Heffernan. “Search And Replace: Josephine Miles And The Origins Of Distant Reading.” Modernism/modernity 3 (2018) https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/search-and-replace
• Adam Crymble “Chapter 1 The Origin Myths of Computing in Historical Research” in Technology and the Historian