[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 142, Issue 29

[Kevin Driscoll]

(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-database-technology
.

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 at 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-database-technology
> .
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 09:53:47 -0400
>> From: Amanda Licastro <amanda.licastro at gmail.com>
>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Subject: [Air-L] Database reading list
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>> 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
>>
>
>