Big digital humanities : imagining a meeting place for the humanities and the digital / Patrik Svensson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svensson, Patrik, author.

Series:

Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Digital humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital humanities.

Big data.

Physical Description:

xx, 279 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Imagining a meeting place for the humanities and the digital

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Summary:

Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about what did or didn't "count" as Digital Humanities work. Svensson's articles provided a widely sought after omnibus of Digital Humanities history, practice, and theory. They were informative and knowledgeable and tended to foreground reportage and explanation rather than utopianism or territorial contentiousness. In revising his original work for book publication, Svensson has responded to both subsequent feedback and new developments. Svensson's own unique perspective and special stake in the Digital Humanities conversation comes from his role as director of the HUMlab at Umea University. HUMlab is a unique collaborative space and Digital Humanities center, which officially opened its doors in 2000. According to its own official description, the HUMlab is an open, creative studio environment where "students, researchers, artists, entrepreneurs and international guests come together to engage in dialogue, experiment with technology, take on challenges and move scholarship forward." It is this last element "moving scholarship forward" that Svensson argues is the real opportunity in what he terms the "big digital humanities," or digital humanities as practiced in collaborative spaces like the HUMlab, and he is uniquely positioned to take an account of this evolving dimension of Digital Humanities practice. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introducing the digital humanities

Digital humanities as a field

Three premises of big digital humanities

Humanities infrastructure

Making big digital humanities

Epilogue: Making December events.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472053063

047205306X

9780472073061

0472073060

OCLC:

913557177