Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University

by Jeff Rice (Editor), Brian McNely (Editor)

Overview

Of all the topics of interest in the digital humanities, the network has received comparatively little attention. We live in a networked society: texts, sounds, ideas, people, consumerism, protest movements, politics, entertainment, academia, and other items circulate in and through networks that come together and break apart at various moments. In these interactions, data sets of all sorts are formed, or at the least, are latent. Such data affect what the humanities is or might be. While there exist networked spaces of interaction for digital humanities work, considering in more detail how networks affect traditional and future goals of humanistic inquiry is a timely pursuit. Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University takes up this issue as a volume of collected work that asks these questions: Have the humanities sufficiently addressed the ways its various forms of work, as networks, affect other networks, within and outside of the university? What might a networked digital humanities be, or what is it currently if it does, indeed, exist? Can an understanding of the humanities as a series of networks affect--positively or negatively--the ways publics perceive humanities research, pedagogy, and mission? In addressing these questions, Networked Humanities offers both a critical and timely contribution to the spacious present and potential future of the digital humanities, both within academe and beyond.

Contributors include Neil Baird, Jenny Bay, Casey Boyle, James J. Brown, Jr., Levi R. Bryant, Naomi Clark, Bradley Dilger, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Paul Gestwicki, Tarez Samra Graban, Jeffrey T. Grabill, Laurie Gries, Byron Hawk, John Jones, Nate Kreuter, Devoney Looser, Rudy McDaniel, Derek Mueller, Liza Potts, Jeff Pruchnic, Jim Ridolfo, Nathaniel Rivers, Jillian J. Sayre, Lars Söderlund, Clay Spinuzzi, and Kathleen Blake Yancey.

About the Editors

Jeff Rice is the Martha B Reynolds Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of several books on writing, rhetoric, and new media. Brian McNely is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. He studies everyday genres, technologies, objects, and practices of communication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643170176
Publisher:	Parlor Press
Publication date:	08/11/2018
Series:	New Media Theory
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Networked Humanities by Jeff Rice and Brian McNely | Networked Disciplinarity | 2 Provocation: On the Question of What a Networked Humanities Might Be by Jeffrey T. Grabill | 3 A Natural History of Networks by Jeff Pruchnic | 4 Reading in Slow Motion: Thinking with the Network by Jillian J. Sayre and James J. Brown, Jr. | 5 Provocation: Networked History, Networked Humanities by Jim Ridolfo | 6 Networked Asymmetry and Survivability in the Digital Humanities by Nate Kreuter | 7 Provocation: Networked Humanities, Past and Present by Devoney Looser | Networked Materialisms | 8 New Materialisms, Networks, and Humanities Research by Laurie Gries, Jenny Bay, Derek Mueller, and Nathaniel Rivers | 9 Provocation: Teaching Networked Humanities through Interdisciplinary Projects by Paul Gestwicki | 10 Ripple Effects: Toward a Topos of Deployment for Feminist Historiography in Rhetoric and Composition by Tarez Samra Graban | 11 Provocation: “We have mult[i]ple nets to fit into”: Understanding Networked Claims by Clay Spinuzzi | 12 Homeless Infrastructure by Casey Boyle | 13 Provocation: Minding the Network: An Eco-logic for Networked Humanities by Kristie S. Fleckenstein | 14 Provocation: We Are the Network: Creating Gravity in the Digital Humanities by Liza Potts | 15 The Limitations of Choice: Toward A New Materialist Reading of “Mommy War” Rhetorics by Naomi Clark | 16 Provocation: “Even if it’s just Writing Letters”: Networking Japanese Americans in World War II by Kathleen Blake Yancey | Networked Processes | 17 Elaborating a Network: Rhetoric’s Relationship with Psychology’s Elaboration Likelihood Model and the Promise and Risks of Expanding It by Lars Söderlund | 18 Provocation: Networked Humanities as a Creative Collaboration by Rudy McDaniel | 19 Hacking the Humanities by John Jones | 20 Three Theses for an Ontology of Networks by Levi R. Bryant | 21 Provocation: Networked Research, Networked Ethics by Neil Baird and Bradley Dilger | 22 Afterword: Notes Toward a Liberated Network Language by Byron Hawk | Contributors | Index |