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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
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
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