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Debates in the Digital Humanities: Contents

Debates in the Digital Humanities

Contents

Contents

INTRODUCTION

The Digital Humanities Moment | Matthew K. Gold

PART I

Defining the Digital Humanities

1: What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? | Matthew Kirschenbaum

2: The Humanities, Done Digitally | Kathleen Fitzpatrick

3: “This Is Why We Fight”: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities | Lisa Spiro

4: Beyond the Big Tent | Patrik Svensson

BLOG POSTS

The Digital Humanities Situation | Rafael C. Alvarado

Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions? | Tom Scheinfeldt

Why Digital Humanities Is “Nice” | Tom Scheinfeldt

An Interview with Brett Bobley | Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith

Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities

PART II

Theorizing the Digital Humanities

5: Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities | Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell

6: Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship | Johanna Drucker

7: This Digital Humanities Which Is Not One | Jamie “Skye” Bianco

8: A Telescope for the Mind? | Willard McCarty

BLOG POSTS

Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology? | Tom Scheinfeldt

Has Critical Theory Run Out of Time for Data-Driven Scholarship? | Gary Hall

There Are No Digital Humanities | Gary Hall

PART III

Critiquing the Digital Humanities

9: Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation | Tara McPherson

10: Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University | Elizabeth Losh

11: Unseen and Unremarked On: Don DeLillo and the Failure of the Digital Humanities | Mark L. Sample

12: Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities | George H. Williams

13: The Digital Humanities and Its Users | Charlie Edwards

BLOG POSTS

Digital Humanities Triumphant? | William Pannapacker

What Do Girls Dig? | Bethany Nowviskie

The Turtlenecked Hairshirt | Ian Bogost

Eternal September of the Digital Humanities | Bethany Nowviskie

PART IV

Practicing the Digital Humanities

14: Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method | Matthew Wilkens

15: Electronic Errata: Digital Publishing, Open Review, and the Futures of Correction | Paul Fyfe

16: The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time | Neil Fraistat

17: Time, Labor, and “Alternate Careers” in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work | Julia Flanders

18: Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon | Amy E. Earhart

BLOG POSTS

The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing | Daniel J. Cohen

Introducing Digital Humanities Now | Daniel J. Cohen

Text: A Massively Addressable Object | Michael Witmore

The Ancestral Text | Michael Witmore

PART V

Teaching the Digital Humanities

19: Digital Humanities and the “Ugly Stepchildren” of American Higher Education | Luke Waltzer

20: Graduate Education and the Ethics of the Digital Humanities | Alexander Reid

21: Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World | Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis

22: Where’s the Pedagogy? The Role of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Humanities | Stephen Brier

BLOG POSTS

Visualizing Millions of Words | Mills Kelly

What’s Wrong with Writing Essays | Mark L. Sample

Looking for Whitman: A Grand, Aggregated Experiment | Matthew K. Gold and Jim Groom

The Public Course Blog: The Required Reading We Write Ourselves for the Course That Never Ends | Trevor Owens

PART VI

Envisioning the Future of the Digital Humanities

23: Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term | Matthew Kirschenbaum

24: The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism | Dave Parry

25: The Resistance to Digital Humanities | David Greetham

26: Beyond Metrics: Community Authorization and Open Peer Review | Kathleen Fitzpatrick

27: Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data | Lev Manovich

28: Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions | Cathy N. Davidson

29: Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities? | Alan Liu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

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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.
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