UVA MDST 3703 2013 08-27 Introduction
- 1. Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts Prof. Alvarado MDST 3703 27 August 2013
- 3. What about you? • How many CS majors? • How many in Media Studies? • Other College majors? • Non-college majors?
- 4. What are the “liberal arts”?
- 6. Francese
- 7. The Seven Liberal Arts • Trivium – Grammar – Rhetoric – Logic • Quadrivium – Arithmetic – Geometry – Music – Astronomy
- 8. The liberal arts is a curriculum
- 9. How has the curriculum changed? Think of the what we mean by “arts and sciences”
- 11. How is it different from the professional schools? (engineering, business, medicine, law)
- 12. The humanities are at the center Many departments fall within history, literature, or philosophy
- 13. We often call a student of the humanities a scholar What do scholars do?
- 14. Scholars interpret and reinterpret texts (literature, historical records, law, religion)
- 15. Scholars also make arguments
- 17. All of these forms depend up writing
- 18. What happens to scholarship when writing and communication become digital?
- 19. What is the digital?
- 20. THE DIGITAL
- 21. Binary code
- 22. Binary code can you be used to represent many things
- 23. ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange” Like words
- 25. With digital representation, numbers are used like names
- 26. What other kinds of things can be represented digitally?
- 27. Music
- 28. The Shape of Song http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/method/method.html
- 29. Madonna, “Like a Prayer”
- 31. Thoughts See Tan Li’s demonstration http://goo.gl/YTfxr
- 32. These examples work the same way The object is mapped to a set of data and then transformed by algorithms
- 33. String operations • Once things are named by numbers, you can manipulate them … – Parse – Count – Sort – Delete – Repeat – Transform
- 34. DNA
- 35. What happens to books?
- 36. The Bible Visualizing the Bible
- 39. 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
- 40. 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 …
Editor's Notes
- #3: http://askthepast.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-to-treat-freshmen-1495.html?spref=fb
- #7: Francese, Rome in So Many Words
- #21: To understand this question, we need to understand the core idea of the digital … what does “digital” mean?
- #22: So, these are ZEROS and ONES. This is how things have to be represented in order for computers to “understand” them. Every computer, from you Android or iPhone to your car to your laptop to the information system that stores your grades and transcript – speaks this and only this language.
- #24: Like words … this I the ASCII code
- #29: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/method/method.htmlhttp://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/mono.htmlFor example, the picture above was built from the first line of a very simple piece: Mary Had a Little Lamb. Each arch connects two identical passages. To clarify the connection between the visualization and the song, in this diagram the score is displayed beneath the arches.
- #37: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/bibleviz/index.html