Description

Book Synopsis

This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship.

  • A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline
  • Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization
  • Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities
  • Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities
  • Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understandin

    Table of Contents

    Notes on Contributors viii

    Preface xvii

    Part I Infrastructures 1

    1 Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities 3
    Jentery Sayers, Devon Elliott, Kari Kraus, Bethany Nowviskie, and William J. Turkel

    2 Embodiment, Entanglement, and Immersion in Digital Cultural Heritage 22
    Sarah Kenderdine

    3 The Internet of Things 42
    Finn Arne Jørgensen

    4 Collaboration and Infrastructure 54
    Jennifer Edmond

    Part II Creation 67

    5 Becoming Interdisciplinary 69
    Willard McCarty

    6 New Media and Modeling: Games and the Digital Humanities 84
    Steven E. Jones

    7 Exploratory Programming in Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Research 98
    Nick Montfort

    8 Making Virtual Worlds 110
    Christopher Johanson

    9 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities 127
    Scott Rettberg

    10 Social Scholarly Editing 137
    Kenneth M. Price

    11 Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines 150
    Lorna Hughes, Panos Constantopoulos, and Costis Dallas

    12 Tailoring Access to Content 171
    Séamus Lawless, Owen Conlan, and Cormac Hampson

    13 Ancient Evenings: Retrocomputing in the Digital Humanities 185
    Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

    Part III Analysis 199

    14 Mapping the Geospatial Turn 201
    Todd Presner and David Shepard

    15 Music Information Retrieval 213
    John Ashley Burgoyne, Ichiro Fujinaga, and J. Stephen Downie

    16 Data Modeling 229
    Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis

    17 Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities 238
    Johanna Drucker

    18 Zen and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge 251
    Dominic Oldman, Martin Doerr, and Stefan Gradmann

    19 Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count 274
    Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell

    20 Text‐Mining the Humanities 291
    Matthew L. Jockers and Ted Underwood

    21 Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding 307
    Elena Pierazzo

    22 Digital Materiality 322
    Sydney J. Shep

    23 Screwmeneutics and Hermenumericals: the Computationality of Hermeneutics 331
    Joris J. van Zundert

    24 When Texts of Study are Audio Files: Digital Tools for Sound Studies in Digital Humanities 348
    Tanya E. Clement

    25 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 358
    Jerome McGann

    26 Classification and its Structures 377
    C. M. Sperberg‐McQueen

    Part IV Dissemination 395

    27 Interface as Mediating Actor for Collection Access, Text Analysis, and Experimentation 397
    Stan Ruecker

    28 Saving the Bits: Digital Humanities Forever? 408
    William Kilbride

    29 Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities 420
    Melissa Terras

    30 Peer Review 439
    Kathleen Fitzpatrick

    31 Hard Constraints: Designing Software in the Digital Humanities 449
    Stephen Ramsay

    Part V Past, Present, Future of Digital Humanities 459

    32 Beyond the Digital Humanities Center: the Administrative Landscapes of the Digital Humanities 461
    Andrew Prescott

    33 Sorting Out the Digital Humanities 476
    Patrik Svensson

    34 Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities 493
    Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Katherine L. Walter, Alex Gil, and Neil Fraistat

    35 Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities 511
    Laura C. Mandell

    36 The Promise of the Digital Humanities and the Contested Nature of Digital Scholarship 524
    William G. Thomas III

    37 Building Theories or Theories of Building? A Tension at the Heart of Digital Humanities 538
    Claire Warwick

    Index 553

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      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/01/2016
      ISBN13: 9781118680599, 978-1118680599
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship.

      • A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline
      • Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization
      • Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities
      • Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities
      • Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understandin

        Table of Contents

        Notes on Contributors viii

        Preface xvii

        Part I Infrastructures 1

        1 Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities 3
        Jentery Sayers, Devon Elliott, Kari Kraus, Bethany Nowviskie, and William J. Turkel

        2 Embodiment, Entanglement, and Immersion in Digital Cultural Heritage 22
        Sarah Kenderdine

        3 The Internet of Things 42
        Finn Arne Jørgensen

        4 Collaboration and Infrastructure 54
        Jennifer Edmond

        Part II Creation 67

        5 Becoming Interdisciplinary 69
        Willard McCarty

        6 New Media and Modeling: Games and the Digital Humanities 84
        Steven E. Jones

        7 Exploratory Programming in Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Research 98
        Nick Montfort

        8 Making Virtual Worlds 110
        Christopher Johanson

        9 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities 127
        Scott Rettberg

        10 Social Scholarly Editing 137
        Kenneth M. Price

        11 Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines 150
        Lorna Hughes, Panos Constantopoulos, and Costis Dallas

        12 Tailoring Access to Content 171
        Séamus Lawless, Owen Conlan, and Cormac Hampson

        13 Ancient Evenings: Retrocomputing in the Digital Humanities 185
        Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

        Part III Analysis 199

        14 Mapping the Geospatial Turn 201
        Todd Presner and David Shepard

        15 Music Information Retrieval 213
        John Ashley Burgoyne, Ichiro Fujinaga, and J. Stephen Downie

        16 Data Modeling 229
        Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis

        17 Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities 238
        Johanna Drucker

        18 Zen and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge 251
        Dominic Oldman, Martin Doerr, and Stefan Gradmann

        19 Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count 274
        Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell

        20 Text‐Mining the Humanities 291
        Matthew L. Jockers and Ted Underwood

        21 Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding 307
        Elena Pierazzo

        22 Digital Materiality 322
        Sydney J. Shep

        23 Screwmeneutics and Hermenumericals: the Computationality of Hermeneutics 331
        Joris J. van Zundert

        24 When Texts of Study are Audio Files: Digital Tools for Sound Studies in Digital Humanities 348
        Tanya E. Clement

        25 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 358
        Jerome McGann

        26 Classification and its Structures 377
        C. M. Sperberg‐McQueen

        Part IV Dissemination 395

        27 Interface as Mediating Actor for Collection Access, Text Analysis, and Experimentation 397
        Stan Ruecker

        28 Saving the Bits: Digital Humanities Forever? 408
        William Kilbride

        29 Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities 420
        Melissa Terras

        30 Peer Review 439
        Kathleen Fitzpatrick

        31 Hard Constraints: Designing Software in the Digital Humanities 449
        Stephen Ramsay

        Part V Past, Present, Future of Digital Humanities 459

        32 Beyond the Digital Humanities Center: the Administrative Landscapes of the Digital Humanities 461
        Andrew Prescott

        33 Sorting Out the Digital Humanities 476
        Patrik Svensson

        34 Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities 493
        Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Katherine L. Walter, Alex Gil, and Neil Fraistat

        35 Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities 511
        Laura C. Mandell

        36 The Promise of the Digital Humanities and the Contested Nature of Digital Scholarship 524
        William G. Thomas III

        37 Building Theories or Theories of Building? A Tension at the Heart of Digital Humanities 538
        Claire Warwick

        Index 553

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