Introductions
8/23- Getting Started
Week 1 & 2: Going Public
8/28- Introduction to WordPress
We will meet in the Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC).
Register with Reclaim Hosting and install WordPress on your domain of choice before you come to class.
8/30- The Public Digital Scholar
Assignment
Find 3 blogs related to your subfield/religion/religious studies that you will read and follow throughout the semester. You will present a post from these blogs three times during the semester.
Readings
Crafting an Online Academic Persona
- “The academic online: Constructing persona through the World Wide Web,” Kim Barbour and David Marshall
- “Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics,” Miriam Posner
- “Digital Professionalism for Graduate Students: How to Use Twitter, Blogging, and the Rest of the Web as an Academic,” Amanda Visconti
- “How to Maintain Your Digital Identity as an Academic,” Kelli Marshall
Building an Academic Website
- “Personal academic websites for faculty & grad students: the why, what, and how,” Alex Bond
- “On Professional Websites,” Jonathan Sterne
Scholars in Public
- “The Absent Presence: A Conversation,” Brian Croxall and David Perry
- “Curating in the Open: Martians, Old News, and the Value of Sharing as you go,” Trevor Owens
- “For One Scholar, an Online Stoning Tests the Limits of Public Scholarship,” Chris Quintana
- “Threats for What She Didn’t Say,” Colleen Flaherty
- “Is Self-promotion Hurting Scholarship,” Brooke Erin Duffy
9/6 Academic Blogging
Project: WordPress Site
Readings
The Call to Blog
- “Professors, Start Your Blogs,” Dan Cohen
Blogging (as) Scholarship?
- “Only Typing? Informal Writing, Blogging, and the Academy,” Alex Says Cummings and Jonathan Jarrett
- “Voices: Blogging,” Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Mark Sample, Daniel J. Cohen
How to Blog
- “Blogging 101 for Academics,” Jonathan Sterne
- “3 Rules of Academic Blogging,” David Perry
- “So You Want to Blog (Academic Edition),” Liana Silva
Why Blog?
- “Becoming Tenured Radical: A Historian in the Blogosphere,” Claire Bond Potter
- “Silence Dogood Rides Again,” Ann M. Little
- “Scholars or Colleagues?” Russell McCutcheon
- “Why Do I Blog?” Russell McCutcheon
- “Why I Don’t Blog As Much Anymore,” Michael J. Altman
Week 3: Digital Public Religious Studies
9/11 Publc/Digital humanities
Reading
- Digital_Humanities, Anne Burdick, et. al
- “Getting Started in Digital Humanities,” Lisa Spiro
9/13 Public/Digital Religious Studies
Reading
- “Religion, Media, and the Digital Turn,” Christopher D. Cantwell and Hussein Rashid
- “Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion,” Tim Hutchings
- “Introducing @Preacher_Bot: An Experiment in Evangelical Speechmaking,” Chris Cantwell
- “DRAFT: AAR Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship”
- “A Modest Proposal for the AAR’s Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship,” Nathan Loewen
Assignment
Participate in “Religion in Museums” webinar on Thursday 9/14 from 11am-11:45am.
Week 4: The American Academy of Religion
9/18: The AAR, Its History, and its Place in the Field
Reading
- The Politics of Religious Studies, Donald Wiebe
- “An Eternal Return All Over Again: The Religious Conversation Endures, Donald Wiebe
Assignment
Write a 1000 word critical book review of Wiebe. For help with what goes into a critical book review see:
- Writing Academic Book Reviews
- How To Write an Academic Book Review
- Three Golden Rules for Book Reviewing: What Are They?
9/20: The AAR Today
Reading
- AAR “About” Page
- 2012 Presidential Address
- 2013 Presidential Address
- 2014 Presidential Address
- 2015 Presidential Address
Week 5: Digital Collections
9/25 Introduction to Omeka (ADHC)
Reading
Omeka
Digital Collections
- “Digital Historiography and the Archives”, Kate Theimer, et al.
- “Thoughts on feminism, digital humanities and women’s history”, Jennifer Redmond
- “In Ones Own Hand: Seeing Manuscripts in a Digital Age”, Anna Chen
- “Whence Feminism? Assessing Feminist Intervention in Digital Literary Archives”, Jacqueline Wernimont
9/27 Digital Collections in Religious Studies
Reading
Explore these collections:
- MAVCOR Material Objects Archive
- Church in the Southern Black Community
- The Joseph Smith Papters
- Religion in Kansas Project
- Religious Soundmap Project
Assignment
Write a 1000 word review of one of the digital collections above. For help on reviewing digital projects, see:
DH Commons Review Guidelines
Week 6 & 7: Omeka Workshop
10/2 Workshop
10/4 Workshop
10/9 Workshop
10/11 Workshop
Project: Omeka Exhibit
Week 8: Podcasting
10/16 Introduction to Audio Recording/Editing (Sanford Media Center)
Listening
- Whistlestop
- Invisibilia
- Reply All
- Radio Lab
10/18 Podcasting Religious Studies
Reading
- “Podcasting religious studies,” Michael J. Altman
Listening
- New Books in Religion
- Religious Studies Project
- Study Religion
Assignment
Write a 1000 word critical review of either New Books in Religion or the Religious Studies Project.
Week 9 & 10: Podcasting Workshop
10/23 Workshop
10/25 Workshop
10/30 Workshop
11/1 Workshop
Project: Podcast
Week 11: Data, Networks, and Visualization
11/6 Data and Networks
Reading
- Graphs, Maps, Trees, Franco Moretti
- Demystifying Networks, Scott Weingart
- “Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters”, Marc Smith, et al.
11/8 Data in Religious Studies
Readings
- Durkheim with Data: The Database of Religious History, Edward Slingerland and Brenton Sullivan
- Explore the Database of Religious History
Week 12, & 13: #aarsbl17 Tweets
11/13 Introduction to NVIVO
Reading
Explore the info, FAQ, and article about TAGS
11/15 No Class
Prepare your #aarsbl17 twitter capture
11/20 AAR Conference (No class)
Follow, engage, and capture #aarsbl17