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Debates in the Digital Humanities Series

by Jessica Marie JohnsonDavid MimnoLauren Tilton

Debates in the Digital Humanities are animated by questions about which practices, modes of inquiry, and ways of knowing should be acknowledged and engaged with. One area that continues to elicit equal measures of excitement and anxiety is work that is labeled as quantitative or as computational analysis. While text analysis has been the most prominent example, recent advances in technologies for images and sound have expanded computational approaches to other cultural forms. New forms of data from listservs and code repositories to tweets and other social media content have only enlivened debates about what counts as digital humanities scholarship, what kind of knowledge computational approaches can produce, who should be engaged in data inquiry, and what are its stakes. Theorizing the role of computation in humanities, it seems, is as much about power, prestige, and precarity as it is about p-values, and this volume aims to put all of these issues in conversation. Acknowledging the need for a space for reflexive and specialized debates about computation in DH, Debates in the Digital Humanities: Computational Humanities invites contributions that engage with computational and technical issues as well as about the role of computation itself.

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Table of Contents

  • The Future of DH Research: Alone you may go faster, but together you’ll get further | Marieke van Erp, Barbara McGillivray, and Tobias Blanke
  • Double and Triple Binds: The Barriers to Computational Ethnic Studies | Roopika Risam
  • Fugitivities and Futures: Black Studies in the Digital Era | Crystal Nicole Eddins
  • LitBank: Born-Literary Natural Language Processing | David Bamman
  • Computational Parallax as Humanistic Inquiry | Crystal Hall
  • Freedom on the Move and Ethical Challenges in the Digital History of Slavery | Vanessa Holden and Joshua D. Rothman
  • Why does digital history need diachronic semantic search? | Barbara McGillivray, Federico Nanni, and Kaspar Beelen
  • Generative Digital Humanities | Fabian Offert and Peter Bell
  • Computation and hermeneutics: Why we still need interpretation to be (digital) humanists | Hannah Ringler
  • Humanistic and Technological Endeavors: Re-centering Innovation within the Humanities | Lisa Tagliaferri
  • Of Coding and Quality: A Tale about Computational Humanities | Julia Damerow, Abraham Gibson, and Manfred Laubichler
  • Voices From The Server Room: Humanists In HPC | Quinn Dombroski, Tassie Gniady, David Kloster, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Jeffrey Tharsen, and Lee Zickel
  • Maps as Data: Computational Spatial History | Katherine McDonough
  • Discovering the politics within Adobe Stock and the AI infrastructure behind it | Angelica Martinez Ochoa
  • American digital history and the shadow of social science | Benjamin Schmidt
  • Computing Criticism: Humanities Concepts and Digital Methods | Mark Algee-Hewitt

Metadata

  • edition
    1
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • restrictions
    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
  • rights
    Copyright 2020 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • rights holder
    Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • rights territory
    World
  • series title
    Debates in the Digital Humanities
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