[Air-L] Database reading list

[Amanda Licastro]

Cory, Tarleton, and Paul,

These are really fantastic. Thanks for your help. The more the merrier.

Amanda

Amanda Licastro, PhD
Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric,
Stevenson University in Maryland
http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
@amandalicastro



On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Cory Salveson <corysalveson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow *(Ed. by
> Victoria Vesna, University of Minnesota Press, 2007:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/database-aesthetics;
> http://victoriavesna.com/dataesthetics) "examines the database as
> cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in
> network culture by creating data art." In particular, I think Vesna's
> chapter, "Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: The Database Aesthetics of
> Everything," discusses an art project involving the storage, manipulation,
> presentation, etc. of medical data in a public art project.
>
> *Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and
> Humanities* (Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, MIT Press, 2015:
> https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/knowledge-machines) explores
> "e-research" and how data (including big data) practices and techniques are
> shaping/being shaped by scientific research generally.
>
> The chapters, "The Lockean view and databases" from *Information
> Management: An Informing Approach *(Fons Wijnhoven, Routledge, 2010:
> https://www.routledge.com/Information-Management-An-Informing-Approach/Wijnhoven/p/book/9780415552158)
> and "Foucault and Data Bases" from *The Mode of Information:
> Poststructuralism and Social Contexts* (Mark Poster, Wiley, 1991:
> http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745603270.html) might
> contribute to a discussion of the epistemological orientation, or
> assumptions and biases, of databases. E.g., even in a world of big data,
> you can only put so much of certain delineated facts/symbolic
> representations into the "universe of discourse" that databases represent.
>
> *The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire* (Thomas
> Richards, Verso Books, 1993) "analyzes the ways in which the Victorian
> organization of knowledge was enlisted into the service of the British
> Empire, as fields like biology, geography and geology began to function
> almost as extensions of British intelligence."
>
> Finally, something brief about "database" as a legal definition, for
> example in terms of the EU Database Directive vs. U.S.'s looser protections
> of databases under copyright law, might be beneficial in conjunction with
> these.
>
> Good luck! I'd be interested to see the list when you're done.
>
> Cory Salveson
> http://corysalveson.com
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Tarleton L. Gillespie <tlg28 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> This list focuses specifically on the metaphors used to describe data and
>> databases, but it may have references relevant to your needs too.
>>
>>
>> https://socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/metaphors-of-data-a-reading-list/
>>
>> Tarleton
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/25/16, 9:53 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Amanda Licastro" <
>> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of amanda.licastro at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >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
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