(Oops. Sorry for the double message. I hit send by accident!) Hi Amanda, You might also follow the history of the PC spreadsheet. In practice, the distinction between between the spreadsheet and the database can be very fuzzy. There was an excellent issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing all about spreadsheets (Vol 29, Issue 3): http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4338433 And here are two more articles that touch on the changing meaning of "database" over the history of computing (start with the first one, that other guy doesn't know how to use email properly): Dourish, Paul. “No SQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology : Computational Culture.” Computational Culture 1, no. 4 (November 9, 2014). http://computationalculture.net/article/no-sql-the-shifting-materialities-of... . Driscoll, Kevin. “From Punched Cards to ‘Big Data’: A Social History of Database Populism.” Communication +1, no. 1 (August 29, 2012). http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/4. Thanks for starting the thread and best of luck with your work. Please do let us know if you put together a Zotero group! Kevin On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Kevin Driscoll <driscollkevin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Amanda,
Dourish, Paul. “No SQL: The Shifting Materialities of Database Technology : Computational Culture.” Computational Culture 1, no. 4 (November 9, 2014). http://computationalculture.net/article/no-sql-the-shifting-materialities-of... .
Driscoll, Kevin. “From Punched Cards to ‘Big Data’: A Social History of Database Populism.” Communication +1, no. 1 (August 29, 2012). http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/4.
Kevin
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 09:53:47 -0400 From: Amanda Licastro <amanda.licastro@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Database reading list Message-ID: < CAMOm-_uh8EE38A2RuxFEmogoSh5PrBSHFs4buB7PyrfoUOWKSg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hello Air Followers,
I am looking to compile a list of readings on the database. I am specifically looking for information about how data is collected, organized, and manipulated in the humanities and social sciences, and even more specifically in terms of our teaching/assessment materials. Take, for example:
Drucker, Johanna. “Database Narratives in Book and Online.” *Journal of Electronic Publishing* 18.1 (2015): n. pag. Web. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0018.113?view=text;rgn=main
Price, Kenneth M. “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?” *Digital Humanities Quarterly* 3.3 (2009): n. pag. Print. http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/3/3/000053/000053.html
I will create a public Zotero group of these materials and invite anyone on the list who is interested once I collect your suggestions.
Thank you in advance, Amanda
Amanda Licastro, PhD Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Stevenson University in Maryland http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ @amandalicastro