Debates in the digital humanities 2016 / Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gold, Matthew K., editor.

Klein, Lauren F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Humanities.

Humanities--Technological innovations.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

xv, 579 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Summary:

Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its identity, methods, and reach, offering a vision of DH as an expanded field. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Histories and Futures of the Digital Humanities

1 The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (as the Network Is Everting) / Steven E. Jones Jones, Steven E. 3

2 The "Whole Game": Digital Humanities at Community Colleges / Anne B. McGrail McGrail, Anne B. 16

3 What's Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities / Miriam Posner Posner, Miriam 32

4 Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities / Kim Gallon Gallon, Kim 42

5 QueerOS: A User's Manual / Fiona Burnett Burnett, Fiona, Zach Bias Bias, Zach, micha cárdenas cárdenas, micha, Jacob Gaboury Gaboury, Jacob, Jessica Marie Johnson Johnson, Jessica Marie, Margaret Rhee Rhee, Margaret 50

Blog Posts and Short Essays

6 Father Busa's Female Punch Card Operatives / Melissa Terras Terras, Melissa, Julianne Nyhan Nyhan, Julianne 60

7 On the Origin of "Hack" and "Yack" / Bethany Nowviskie Nowviskie, Bethany 66

8 Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, Growing Up / Moya Bailey Bailey, Moya, Anne Cong-Huyen Cong-Huyen, Anne, Alexis Lothian Lothian, Alexis, Amanda Phillips Phillips, Amanda 71

Part II Digital Humanities and Its Methods

9 Blunt Instrumentalism: On Tools and Methods / Dennis Tenen Tenen, Dennis 83

10 Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess / Elizabeth Losh Losh, Elizabeth, Jacqueline Wernimont Wernimont, Jacqueline, Laura Wexler Wexler, Laura, Hong-An Wu Wu, Hong-An 92

11 Mid-Sized Digital Pedagogy / Paul Fyfe Fyfe, Paul 104

12 Re: Search and Close Reading / Michael Hancher Hancher, Michael 118

13 Why We Must Read the Code: The Science Wars, Episode IV / Mark C. Marino Marino, Mark C. 139

14 Where Is Methodology in Digital Humanities? / Tanya E. Clement Clement, Tanya E. 153

15 Resistance in the Materials / Bethany Nowviskie Nowviskie, Bethany 176

16 Interview with Ernesto Oroza / Alex Gil Gil, Alex 184

17 Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate Syllabus / Scott Selisker Selisker, Scott 194

Part II Digital Humanities and Its Practices

18 Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, and the Humanities / Jeffrey M. Binder Binder, Jeffrey M. 201

19 My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future of the Print Record / Andrew Stauffer Stauffer, Andrew 218

20 Argument, Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Literary Studies / David L. Hoover Hoover, David L. 230

21 Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson / Amy E. Earhart Earhart, Amy E., Toniesha L. Taylor Taylor, Toniesha L. 251

22 Here and There: Creating DH Community / Miriam Posner Posner, Miriam 265

23 The Sympathetic Research Imagination: Digital Humanities and the Liberal Arts / Rachel Sagner Buurma Buurma, Rachel Sagner, Anna Tione Levine Levine, Anna Tione 274

24 Lessons on Public Humanities from the Civic Sphere / Wendy F. Hsu Hsu, Wendy F. 280

Part IV Digital Humanities and the Disciplines

25 The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History / Stephen Robertson Robertson, Stephen 289

26 Digital History's Perpetual Future Tense / Cameron Blevins Blevins, Cameron 308

27 Collections and/of Data: Art History and the Art Museum in the DH Mode / Matthew Battles Battles, Matthew, Michael Maizels Maizels, Michael 325

28 Archaeology, the Digital Humanities, and the "Big Tent" / Ethan Watrall Watrall, Ethan 345

29 Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism / Roopika Risam Risam, Roopika 359

30 Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies / Jonathan Senchyne Senchyne, Jonathan 368

31 "Black Printers" on White Cards: Information Architecture in the Data Structures of the Early American Book Trades / Molly O'Hagan Hardy Hardy, Molly O'Hagan 377

32 Public, First / Sheila A. Brennan Brennan, Sheila A. 384

Part V Digital Humanities and Its Critics

33 Are Digital Humanists Utopian? / Brian Greenspan Greenspan, Brian 393

34 Ecological Entanglements of DH / Margaret Linley Linley, Margaret 410

35 Toward a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities / Domenico Fiormonte Fiormonte, Domenico 438

36 How Not to Teach Digital Humanities / Ryan Cordell Cordell, Ryan 459

37 Dropping the Digital / Jentery Sayers Sayers, Jentery 475

38 The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, Richard Grusin Grusin, Richard, Patrick Jagoda Jagoda, Patrick, Rita Raley Raley, Rita 493

39 Difficult Thinking about the Digital Humanities / Mark Sample Sample, Mark 510

40 The Humane Digital / Timothy Burke Burke, Timothy 514

41 Hold on Loosely, or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft on the Web / Ted Underwood Underwood, Ted 519

Part VI Forum: Text Analysis at Scale

42 Introduction / Matthew K. Gold Gold, Matthew K., Lauren F. Klein Klein, Lauren F. 525

43 Humane Computation / Stephen Ramsay Ramsay, Stephen 527

44 Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History / Ted Underwood Underwood, Ted 530

45 The Ground Truth of DH Text Mining / Tanya E. Clement Clement, Tanya E. 534

46 Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches to Text Analysis / Lisa Marie Rhody Rhody, Lisa Marie 536

47 More Scale, More Questions: Observations from Sociology / Tressie McMillan Cottom Cottom, Tressie McMillan 540

48 Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms? / Benjamin M. Schmidt Schmidt, Benjamin M. 546

49 Messy Data and Faulty Tools / Joanna Swafford Swafford, Joanna 556

50 N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities / Alan Liu Liu, Alan 559.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780816699537

0816699534

9780816699544

0816699542

OCLC:

928613280