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Studio 1: Digital Representation /Getting Started Prof. Alvarado MDST 3703/7703 30 August 2012
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Page 1: UVA MDST 3703 Studio 01 2012-08-30

Studio 1: Digital Representation /Getting Started

Prof. AlvaradoMDST 3703/770330 August 2012

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Business

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

• About next Tuesday’s assignment …

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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

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How does digital media affect this order?

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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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Thoughts

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

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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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TOOLS

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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

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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


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