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Matthew K. Gold

Debates in the Digital Humanities brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. Together, the essays suggest that the digital humanities is uniquely positioned to contribute to the revival of the humanities and academic life.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Digital Humanities Moment | Matthew K. Gold
  • Part One: Defining the Digital Humanities
    • Chapter 1: What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? | Matthew Kirschenbaum
    • Chapter 2: The Humanities, Done Digitally | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
    • Chapter 3: “This Is Why We Fight”: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities | Lisa Spiro
    • Chapter 4: Beyond the Big Tent | Patrik Svensson
    • Blog Post: The Digital Humanities Situation | Rafael C. Alvarado
    • Blog Post: Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions? | Tom Scheinfeldt
    • Blog Post: Why Digital Humanities Is “Nice” | Tom Scheinfeldt
    • Blog Post: An Interview with Brett Bobley | Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith
    • Blog Post: Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities
  • Part Two: Theorizing the Digital Humanities
    • Chapter 5: Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities | Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell
    • Chapter 6: Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship | Johanna Drucker
    • Chapter 7: This Digital Humanities Which Is Not One | Jamie “Skye” Bianco
    • Chapter 8: A Telescope for the Mind? | Willard McCarty
    • Blog Post: Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology? | Tom Scheinfeldt
    • Blog Post: Has Critical Theory Run Out of Time for Data-Driven Scholarship? | Gary Hall
    • Blog Post: There Are No Digital Humanities | Gary Hall
  • Part Three: Critiquing the Digital Humanities
    • Chapter 9: Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation | Tara McPherson
    • Chapter 10: Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University | Elizabeth Losh
    • Chapter 11: Unseen and Unremarked On: Don DeLillo and the Failure of the Digital Humanities | Mark L. Sample
    • Chapter 12: Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities | George H. Williams
    • Chapter 13: The Digital Humanities and Its Users | Charlie Edwards
    • Blog Post: Digital Humanities Triumphant? | William Pannapacker
    • Blog Post: What Do Girls Dig? | Bethany Nowviskie
    • Blog Post: The Turtlenecked Hairshirt | Ian Bogost
    • Blog Post: Eternal September of the Digital Humanities | Bethany Nowviskie
  • Part Four: Practicing the Digital Humanities
    • Chapter 14: Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method | Matthew Wilkens
    • Chapter 15: Electronic Errata: Digital Publishing, Open Review, and the Futures of Correction | Paul Fyfe
    • Chapter 16: The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time | Neil Fraistat
    • Chapter 17: Time, Labor, and “Alternate Careers” in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work | Julia Flanders
    • Chapter 18: Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon | Amy E. Earhart
    • Blog Post: The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing | Daniel J. Cohen
    • Blog Post: Introducing Digital Humanities Now | Daniel J. Cohen
    • Blog Post: Text: A Massively Addressable Object | Michael Witmore
    • Blog Post: The Ancestral Text | Michael Witmore
  • Part Five: Teaching the Digital Humanities
    • Chapter 19: Digital Humanities and the “Ugly Stepchildren” of American Higher Education | Luke Waltzer
    • Chapter 20: Graduate Education and the Ethics of the Digital Humanities | Alexander Reid
    • Chapter 21: Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World | Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis
    • Chapter 22: Where’s the Pedagogy? The Role of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Humanities | Stephen Brier
    • Blog Post: Visualizing Millions of Words | Mills Kelly
    • Blog Post: What’s Wrong with Writing Essays | Mark L. Sample
    • Blog Post: Looking for Whitman: A Grand, Aggregated Experiment | Matthew K. Gold and Jim Groom
    • Blog Post: The Public Course Blog: The Required Reading We Write Ourselves for the Course That Never Ends | Trevor Owens
  • Part Six: Envisioning the Future of the Digital Humanities
    • Chapter 23: Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term | Matthew Kirschenbaum
    • Chapter 24: The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism | Dave Parry
    • Chapter 25: The Resistance to Digital Humanities | David Greetham
    • Chapter 26: Beyond Metrics: Community Authorization and Open Peer Review | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
    • Chapter 27: Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data | Lev Manovich
    • Chapter 28: Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions | Cathy N. Davidson
    • Chapter 29: Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities? | Alan Liu
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors

Metadata

  • rights
    Copyright 2012 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

    Chapter 1 was previously published as “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” ADE Bulletin, no. 150 (2010): 55–61. Chapter 2 was previously published as “The Humanities, Done Digitally,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 8, 2011. Chapter 17 was previously published as “You Work at Brown. What Do You Teach?” in #alt-academy, Bethany Nowviskie, ed. (New York: MediaCommons, 2011). Chapter 28 was previously published as “Humanities 2.0: Promises, Perils, Predictions,” PMLA 123, no. 3 (May 2008): 707–17.
  • edition
    1
  • issn
    2380-5927
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • 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 holder
    Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • rights territory
    World
  • series number
    1
  • series title
    Debates in the Digital Humanities
  • version
    2.0
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452963754
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