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Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts
Prof. AlvaradoMDST 3703
27 August 2013
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What about you?
• How many CS majors?• How many in Media Studies?• Other College majors?• Non-college majors?
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What are the “liberal arts”?
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artes liberales
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Francese
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The Seven Liberal Arts
• Trivium– Grammar– Rhetoric– Logic
• Quadrivium– Arithmetic– Geometry– Music– Astronomy
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The liberal arts is a curriculum
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How has the curriculum changed?Think of the what we mean by “arts and sciences”
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How is it different from the professional schools?(engineering, business, medicine, law)
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The humanities are at the centerMany departments fall within history, literature, or philosophy
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We often call a student of the humanities a scholarWhat do scholars do?
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Scholars interpret and reinterpret texts
(literature, historical records, law, religion)
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Scholars also make arguments
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essays, books, lectures
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All of these forms depend up writing
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What happens to scholarship when writing and communication become digital?
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What is the digital?
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THE DIGITAL
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Binary code
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Binary code can you be used to represent many things
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ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”
Like words
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Colors
and colors
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With digital representation, numbers are used like names
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What other kinds of things can be represented digitally?
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Music
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The Shape of Song
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/method/method.html
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Madonna, “Like a Prayer”
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Bach
Bach’s Goldberg Variations
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These examples work the same way
The object is mapped to a set of data and then transformed by algorithms
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String operations
• Once things are named by numbers, you can manipulate them …– Parse– Count– Sort– Delete– Repeat– Transform
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DNA
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What happens to books?
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The Bible
Visualizing the Bible
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Sentimant analysis
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TextArc
http://www.textarc.org/Alice2.
html
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Plan of the Course
• Seminar and studio tracks (Tues and Thurs)• Survey of ideas, projects, and technologies• Historical, Critical, and Practical• Focus on core theme of how rhetoric and
reasoning change with the new media– Are linear, verbal arguments side effects of literacy?– Do new media bring there new forms of reasoning?
• See WordPress site and syllabus
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Homework!
– Set up your home directories• http://its.virginia.edu/homedir/
– Install JEdit on your computer• http://www.jedit.org/
– Read Kirschenbaum, “Hello Worlds”• To be posted …