The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities

by Anne Schwan (Editor), Tara Thomson (Editor)

Overview

This handbook brings together recent international scholarship and developments in the interdisciplinary fields of digital and public humanities. Exploring key concepts, theories, practices and debates within both the digital and public humanities, the handbook also assesses how these two areas are increasingly intertwined. Key questions of access, ownership, authorship and representation link the individual sections and contributions. The handbook includes perspectives from the Global South and presents scholarship and practice that engage with a multiplicity of underrepresented ‘publics’, including LGBTQ+ communities, ethnic and linguistic minorities, the incarcerated and those affected by personal or collective trauma.

Chapter “The Role of Digital and Public Humanities in Confronting the Past: Survivors’ of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries Truth Telling’” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031118852
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/07/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	535
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anne Schwan is Professor in English at Edinburgh Napier University. She has published on the history and representation of crime and imprisonment. She set up an award-winning partnership with the Scottish Prison Service and was involved in public engagement activities to raise awareness of First World War Internment Camps.

Tara Thomson is Lecturer in English and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. She has published on literary and geospatial data, data visualization, and digital engagement with cultural heritage. She is a project partner with UNESCO City of Literature Trust, researching literary data, digital experiences and engagement for Edinburgh’s Literature House.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Anne Schwan and Tara Thomson

Part I: Scholarship, Creative Practice and Engaging with “Publics”

2. Hybrid Humanities and Hybrid Education: Higher Education in, with and for the Public

Rikke Toft Nørgård, Susan Schreibman and Marianne Ping Huang

3. Experiential Education as Public Humanities Practice

Ashley Bender and Gretchen Busl

4. Open-Data, Open-Source, Open-Knowledge: Towards Open-Access Research in Media Studies

Giulia Taurino

5. Adventures in Digital and Public Humanities: Co-Producing Trans History Through Creative Collaboration

Jason Barker, Kate Fisher, Jana Funke, Zed Gregory, Jen Grove, Rebecca Langlands, Ina Linge, Catherine McNamara, Ester McGeeney, Bon O’Hara, Jay Stewart and Kazuki Yamada

6. SémantiQueer: Making Linked Data Work for Public History

Constance Crompton

7. Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen

Paul Gray and Anne Schwan

Part II: Making Memory, Making Community

8. Publics, Memory, Affect (or, Rethinking Publicness with Peter Watkins and Hannah Arendt)

Marco de Waard

9. The Role of Digital and Public Humanities in Confronting the Past: Survivors’ of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries Truth Telling

Jennifer O’Mahoney

10. The Precarious Digital Micropublic of #MeToo: An Ethnographic Account of Facebook Public Groups and Pages

Christina Riley

11. Literature, Technology, Society: A Digital Reconstruction of Cultural Conflicts in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi)

12. Multilingual Handwritten Text Recognition (MultiHTR) or Reading Your Grandma’s Old Letters in German, Russian, Serbian and Ottoman Turkish with Artificial Intelligence

Aleksej Tikhonov, Lesley Loew, Milanka Matić-Chalkitis, Martin Meindl and Achim Rabus

Part III: Mobilizing the Archive 13. Open Pedagogy and the Archives: Engaging Students in Public Digital Humanities

Trey Conatser

14. Practices and Challenges of Popularizing Digital Public Humanities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

Nobuhiko Kikuchi

15. Breaking the “Class” Ceiling: The Challenges and Opportunities of Creating a Digital Archive of Edwardian Working-Class Book Inscriptions

Lauren Alex O’Hagan

16. Learning Seneca: A Case Study on Digital Presentations of North American Indigenous Languages

Francisco Delgado

Part IV: Digital Cultural Heritage

17. Acting on the Cultural Object: Digital Representation of Children’s Writing Cultures in Museum Collections

Lois Burke and Kathryn Simpson

18. A Data-Driven Approach to Public-Focused Digital Narratives for Cultural Heritage

Nicole Basaraba, Jennifer Edmond, Owen Conlan, and Peter Arnds

19. “People Inside”: Creating Digital Community Projects on the YARN Platform

Simon Popple and Jenna Ng

20. 3D Modelling of Heritage Objects: Representation, Engagement and Performativity of the Virtual Realm

Visa Immonen

21. Making Museum Global Impacts Visible: Advancing Digital Public Humanities from Data Aggregation to Data Intelligence

Natalia Grincheva

Part V: Engaging Space and Place

22. Maps, Music and Culture: Representing Historical Soundscapes through Digital Mapping

Sara Belotti and Angela Fiore

23. Civic Interaction, Urban Memory, and the Istanbul International Film Festival

Sarah Jilani

24. Look at the Graves!: Cemeteries as Guided Tourism Destinations in Latvia

Solvita Burr, Anna Elizabete Griķe, and Karīna Krieviņa

Part VI: Public Discourse, Public Art and Activism

25. Public Historians, Social Media, and Hate Speech: The French Case

Deborah Paci

26. The Public Artist as a Fringe Agent for Sustainability: Practices of Environmentalist Driven Art-Activism and their Digital Perspectives

Diego Mantoan

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This volume shows what’s possible when digital and public humanities meet, offering a truly exciting picture of the most cutting-edge scholarship in the humanities today. As a whole, it provides a rich exploration of the intersections between digital and public humanities that speaks to the breadth of the field—in method, discipline, topic. Individual contributions provide necessary depth through a global, interdisciplinary, and diverse range of voices. The volume will be an invaluable addition to syllabi. Additionally, it will appeal to a wide range of audiences: new and more experienced digital humanities practitioners, humanities scholars interested in integrating digital and public humanities into their research and teaching, practitioners in GLAM fields looking for insights and ideas for engaging audiences, and more.” (—Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College, USA)