Debates in the digital humanities / Matthew K. Gold, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gold, Matthew K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--Data processing.

Humanities.

Humanities--Technological innovations.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

xvi, 516 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]

Summary:

" Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promises to transform the liberal arts--and perhaps the university itself. Indeed, at a time when many academic institutions are facing austerity budgets, digital humanities programs have been able to hire new faculty, establish new centers and initiatives, and attract multimillion-dollar grants. Clearly the digital humanities has reached a significant moment in its brief history. But what sort of moment is it? Debates in the Digital Humanities brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. From defining what a digital humanist is and determining whether the field has (or needs) theoretical grounding, to discussions of coding as scholarship and trends in data-driven research, this cutting-edge volume delineates the current state of the digital humanities and envisions potential futures and challenges. At the same time, several essays aim pointed critiques at the field for its lack of attention to race, gender, class, and sexuality; the inadequate level of diversity among its practitioners; its absence of political commitment; and its preference for research over teaching.Together, the essays in Debates in the Digital Humanities--which will be published both as a printed book and later as an ongoing, open-access website--suggest that the digital humanities is uniquely positioned to contribute to the revival of the humanities and academic life.Contributors: Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Jamie "Skye" Bianco, U of Pittsburgh; Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center; Daniel J. Cohen, George Mason U; Cathy N. Davidson, Duke U; Rebecca Frost Davis, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Johanna Drucker, U of California, Los Angeles; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Charlie Edwards; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College; Julia Flanders, Brown U; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Paul Fyfe, Florida State U; Michael Gavin, Rice U; David Greetham, CUNY Graduate Center; Jim Groom, U of Mary Washington; Gary Hall, Coventry U, UK; Mills Kelly, George Mason U; Matthew Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland; Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Losh, U of California, San Diego; Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego; Willard McCarty, King's College London; Tara McPherson, U of Southern California; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Trevor Owens, Library of Congress; William Pannapacker, Hope College; Dave Parry, U of Texas at Dallas; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska, Lincoln; Alexander Reid, SUNY at Buffalo; Geoffrey Rockwell, Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts; Mark L. Sample, George Mason U; Tom Scheinfeldt, George Mason U; Kathleen Marie Smith; Lisa Spiro, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Patrik Svensson, Umē U; Luke Waltzer, Baruch College; Matthew Wilkens, U of Notre Dame; George H. Williams, U of South Carolina Upstate; Michael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Digital humanities moment / Matthew K. Gold

What Is digital humanities and what's it doing in English departments? / Matthew Kirschenbaum

Humanities, done digitally / Kathleen Fitzpatrick

This is why we fight : defining the values of the digital humanities / Lisa Spiro

Beyond the big tent / Patrik Svensson

Digital humanities situation / Rafael Alvarado

Where's the beef? Does digital humanities have to answer questions? / Tom Scheinfeldt

Why digital humanities Is "nice" / Tom Scheinfeldt

Interview with Brett Bobley / Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith

Day of DH : defining the digital humanities

Developing things : notes toward an epistemology of building in the digital humanities / Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell

Humanistic theory and digital scholarship / Johanna Drucker

This digital humanities which Is not one / Jamie "Skye" Bianco

Telescope for the mind? / Willard McCarty

Sunset for ideology, sunrise for methodology? / Tom Scheinfeldt

Has critical theory run out of time for data-driven scholarship? / Gary Hall

There are no digital humanities / Gary Hall

Why are the digital humanities so white?, or, thinking the histories of race and computation / Tara McPherson

Hacktivism and the humanities : programming protest in the era of the digital university / Elizabeth Losh

Unseen and unremarked on : Don DeLillo and the failure of the digital humanities / Mark L. Sample

Disability, universal design, and the digital humanities / George H. Williams

Digital humanities and its users / Charlie Edwards

Digital humanities triumphant? / William Pannapacker

What do girls dig? / Bethany Nowviskie

Turtlenecked hairshirt / Ian Bogost

Eternal September of the digital humanities / Bethany Nowviskie

Canons, close reading, and the evolution of method / Matthew Wilkens

Electronic errata : digital publishing, open review, and the futures of correction / Paul Fyfe

Function of digital humanities centers at the present time / Neil Fraistat

Time, labor, and "alternate careers" in digital humanities knowledge work / Julia Flanders

Can information be unfettered? : Race and the new digital humanities canon / Amy E. Earhart

Social contract of scholarly publishing / Daniel J. Cohen

Introducing digital humanities now / Daniel J. Cohen

Text : a massively addressable object / Michael Witmore

Ancestral text / Michael Witmore

Digital humanities and the "ugly-stepchildren" of American higher education / Luke Waltzer

Graduate education and the ethics of the digital humanities / Alexander Reid

Should liberal arts campuses do digital humanities? : Process and products in the small college world / Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis

Where's the Pedagogy? : The role of teaching and learning in the digital humanities / Stephen Brier

Visualizing millions of words / Mills Kelly

What's wrong with writing essays / Mark L. Sample

Looking for Whitman : a grand, aggregated experiment / Matthew K. Gold and Jim Groom

Public course blog : the required reading we write ourselves for the course that never ends / Trevor Owens

Digital humanities as/is a tactical term / Matthew Kirschenbaum

Digital humanities or a digital humanism / Dave Parry

Resistance to digital humanities / David Greetham

Beyond metrics : community authorization and open peer review / Kathleen Fitzpatric

Trending : the promises and the challenges of big social data / Lev Manovich

Humanities 2.0 : promis, perils, predictions / Cathy N. Davidson

Where is cultural criticism in the digital humanities? / Alan Liu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780816677948

0816677948

9780816677955

0816677956

OCLC:

759909869