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Book SynopsisLeading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
Trade Review"Is there such a thing as ‘digital’ humanities? From statistical crunches of texts to new forms of online collaboration and peer review, it’s clear something is happening. This book is an excellent primer on the arguments over just how much is changing—and how much more ought to—in the way scholars study the humanities." —Clive Thompson, columnist for Wired and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine
"I look forward to the day when anxieties about the disruptive nature of ‘digital humanities’ fade into memory and the innovative methods, theories, and approaches championed by those who have contributed to this valuable volume are respected across academia for their rigor and utility. This book will go a long way toward clarifying the debates within and about digital humanities." —Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything—and Why We Should Worry
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Debates in the Digital Humanities is well over 500 pages in length, there is no fat in it; all essays contain important information and concepts relating to DH. Taken together, the book as a whole and every essay in it is a must-read for anyone who claims to be a digital humanist whether she or he works in theory, pedagogy, and/or practice." —
Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsContents
Introduction: The Digital Humanities Moment
Matthew K. Gold
Part I. Defining the Digital Humanities
1. What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?
Matthew Kirschenbaum
2. The Humanities, Done Digitally
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
3. This Is Why We Fight: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities
Lisa Spiro
4. Beyond the Big Tent
Patrik Svensson
Blog Posts
The 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
An Interview with Brett Bobley
Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith
Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities
Part II. Theorizing the Digital Humanities
5. Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities
Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell
6. Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship
Johanna Drucker
7. This Digital Humanities which Is Not One
Jamie “Skye” Bianco
8. A Telescope for the Mind?
Willard McCarty
Blog Posts
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
Part III. Critiquing the Digital Humanities
9. Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?, or, Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation
Tara McPherson
10. Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University
Elizabeth Losh
11. Unseen and Unremarked On: Don DeLillo and the Failure of the Digital Humanities
Mark L. Sample
12. Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities
George H. Williams
13. The Digital Humanities and Its Users
Charlie Edwards
Blog Posts
Digital Humanities Triumphant?
William Pannapacker
What Do Girls Dig?
Bethany Nowviskie
The Turtlenecked Hairshirt
Ian Bogost
Eternal September of the Digital Humanities
Bethany Nowviskie
Part IV. Practicing the Digital Humanities
14. Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method
Matthew Wilkens
15. Electronic Errata: Digital Publishing, Open Review, and the Futures of Correction
Paul Fyfe
16. The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time
Neil Fraistat
17. Time, Labor, and “Alternate Careers” in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work
Julia Flanders
18. Can Information Be Unfettered?: Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon
Amy E. Earhart
Blog Posts
The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing
Daniel J. Cohen
Introducing Digital Humanities Now
Daniel J. Cohen
Text: A Massively Addressable Object
Michael Witmore
The Ancestral Text
Michael Witmore
Part V. Teaching the Digital Humanities
19. Digital Humanities and the “Ugly-Stepchildren” of American Higher Education
Luke Waltzer
20. Graduate Education and the Ethics of the Digital Humanities
Alexander Reid
21. Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities?: Process and Products in the Small College World
Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis
22. Where’s the Pedagogy?: The Role of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Humanities
Stephen Brier
Blog Posts
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
