Studio 1: Digital Representation /Getting Started

Prof. AlvaradoMDST 3703/770330 August 2012

Business

• Everyone able to access the sites?– Collab– WordPress

• About next Tuesday’s assignment …

Review

• What are the liberal arts?– Education for “free” or empowered people– A curriculum with humanities scholarship at the

center– Focused on language(s) and writing

• The Liberal Arts teaches POWER / KNOWLEDGE through WRITING

How does digital media affect this order?

THE DIGITAL

Binary code

Binary code can you be used to represent many things

ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”

Like words

Colors

and colors

With digital representation, numbers are used like names

What other kinds of things can be represented digitally?

Music

The Shape of Song

http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/method/method.html

Madonna, “Like a Prayer”

Bach

Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Thoughts

See Tan Li’s demonstrationhttp://goo.gl/YTfxr

These examples work the same way

The object is mapped to a set of data and then transformed by algorithms

String operations

• Once things are named by numbers, you can manipulate them …– Parse– Count– Sort– Delete– Repeat– Transform

DNA

What happens to books?

The Bible

Visualizing the Bible

Sentimant analysis

TextArc

http://www.textarc.org/Alice2.

html

TOOLS

Browser and Accounts

• Use Firefox (because of the plugins)– Chrome is faster, Safari OK– IE has a history of non-compliance with standards

• Plugins– Get a Zotero account for bibliography

• Accounts– Zotero for bibliography– Diigo for bookmarks– Google for documents and spreadsheets

WordPress Exercise

• Create a post• Call it “Hello, World!”• Insert an image from the web• Embed a video from YouTube related to digital

humanities or something related to this course

• Classify with category for today’s class• Add tags