MODL 472/872: Digital Humanities Practicum
ECODH: Computers and Environmental Crisis
Ted Dawson
TR 11:00-12:15
This course investigates the imbrication of digital technology and environmental crisis, mobilizing a range of tools and critical constructs that use digital methods to investigate environmental issues while also reflecting on the environmental implications of those same digital methods. Students will work with central thinkers at the nexus of the environmental and digital humanities, using the work of e.g. Tung-Hui Hu, Jennifer Gabrys, Nicole Starosielski, Stepahnie LeMenager, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen to probe questions of the materiality of data, the role of heat in computation, or the place of speed and slowness in digital work and environmental change. At the same time, students will review digital activism that has contributed to work on climate change (e.g. EDGI) and develop their own digital projects addressing environmental issues.