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A New Companion to Digital Humanities
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Overview
- 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 understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118680636 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 11/12/2015 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 592 |
File size: | 12 MB |
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About the Author
Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. In 2014 he received the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations’ Antonio Zampolli Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. Dr. Siemens has published numerous articles on the intersection of literary studies and computational methods and is the co-editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Susan Schreibman, Wiley Blackwell, 2007) and Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology (with Kenneth M. Price, 2013), the MLA's first born digital open access anthology. http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/.
John Unsworth is Professor of English, Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services, Chief Information Office, and University Librarian at Brandeis University. In August of 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Humanities Council. A co-founder of Postmodern Culture, the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, he organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium; co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions; served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations; as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards.
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viiiPreface 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 Jorgensen
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 Seamus 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 Stefan 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