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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Title Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction | Domenico Fiormonte, Paola Ricaurte, and Sukanta Chaudhuri
  9. Part I. Global Histories of Digital Humanities
    1. 1. Epistemically Produced Invisibility | Sayan Bhattacharyya
    2. 2. Alternative Histories of Digital Humanities: Tracing the Archival Turn | Puthiya Purayil Sneha
    3. 3. Can the Subaltern “Do” DH? A Reflection on the Challenges and Opportunities for the Digital Humanities | Ernesto Priego
    4. 4. Peering Beyond the Pink Tent: Queer of Color Critique across the Digital Indian Ocean | Rahul K. Gairola
    5. 5. The History and Context of the Digital Humanities in Russia | Inna Kizhner, Melissa Terras, Boris Orekhov, Lev Manovich, Igor Kim, Maxim Rumyantsev, and Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya
    6. 6. Debating and Developing Digital Humanities in China: New or Old? | Jing Chen and Lik Hang Tsui
    7. 7. How We Became Digital: The Recent History of Digital Humanities in Poland | Maciej Maryl
    8. 8. Digital Social Sciences and Digital Humanities of the South: Materials for a Critical Discussion | Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega
  10. Part II. Exploring and Practicing Global Digital Humanities
    1. 9. Mining Verbal Data from Early Bengali Newspapers and Magazines: Contemplating the Possibilities | Purbasha Auddy
    2. 10. Digital Brush Talk: Challenges and Potential Connections in East Asian Digital Research | Aliz Horvath
    3. 11. “It Functions, and That’s (Almost) All”: Tagging the Talmud | Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky
    4. 12. What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus? A Google Ngram Analysis of the Chinese Language Area (1950–2008) | Carlton Clark, Lei Zhang, and Steffen Roth
    5. 13. In Tlilli in Tlapalli / In Xochitl in Cuicatl: The Representation of Other Mexican Literatures through Digital Media | Ernesto Miranda Trigueros
    6. 14. No “Making,” Not Now: Decolonizing Digital Humanities in South Asia | Dibyadyuti Roy and Nirmala Menon
    7. 15. Digital Humanities and Memory Wars in Contemporary Russia | Sofia Gavrilova
    8. 16. Borderlands Archives Cartography: Bridging Personal, Political, and Geographical Borderlands | Maira E. Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla
    9. 17. Developing New Literacy Skills and Digital Scholarship Infrastructures in the Global South: A Case Study | María José Afanador-Llach and Andres Lombana-Bermudez
    10. 18. Manuscripts Written by Women in New Spain and the Challenge of Digitization: An Experiment in Academic Autoethnography | Diana Barreto Ávila
  11. Part III. Beyond Digital Humanities
    1. 19. Digital Humanities and Visible and Invisible Infrastructures | Gimena del Rio Riande
    2. 20. Site-Specific Cultural Infrastructure: Promoting Access and Conquering the Digital Divide | Juan Steyn and Andre Goodrich
    3. 21. On Gambiarras: Technical Improvisations à la Brazil | Carolina Dalla Chiesa and Leonardo Foletto
    4. 22. Messy Empowerment: Mapping Digital Encounters in the Margins | Anita Gurumurthy and Deepti Bharthur
    5. 23. On Language, Gender, and Digital Technologies | Tim Unwin
    6. 24. Africa’s Digitalization: From the Ecological Dilemma to the Decolonization of the Imaginary | Cédric Leterme
  12. Contributors
  13. Figure Descriptions

Contributors

MARÍA JOSÉ AFANADOR-LLACH is assistant professor of digital humanities in the School of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She is editor and project-manager-at-large of the journal The Programming Historian.

MAIRA E. ÁLVAREZ is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at Arizona State University, School of International Letters and Cultures, United States.

PURBASHA AUDDY is project fellow and coordinator of a course in digital humanities and cultural informatics at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, India.

DIANA BARRETO ÁVILA is SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, in the departments of history and women’s studies and gender studies.

DEEPTI BHARTHUR is a digital economy researcher and nonresident fellow with IT for Change, Bengaluru, India.

SAYAN BHATTACHARYYA is lecturer in humanities, arts, and social sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he codirects the program in digital humanities.

ANASTASIA BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA is associate professor at the School of Linguistics, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Russia.

SUKANTA CHAUDHURI is professor emeritus of English, Jadavpur University, India. His most recent monograph is The Metaphysics of Text. He was coordinator of “Bichitra,” the Tagore Online Variorum, and is coordinating a computer-based historical dictionary of the Bengali language.

JING CHEN is associate professor in the School of Arts, Nanjing University, China. She is executive editor of a digital humanities book series from Nanjing University Press and cofounder of 01Lab.

CARLTON CLARK is senior research fellow at Next Society Institute, Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. He is coeditor of Affect, Emotion, and Rhetorical Persuasion in Mass Communication.

CAROLINA DALLA CHIESA is lecturer in the Arts and Culture Department, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and postdoctoral researcher in digital culture at Leuphana University, Germany.

GIMENA DEL RIO RIANDE is president of the Argentine Association of Digital Humanities. She is associate researcher at the Institute of Bibliographic Research and Textual Criticism, CONICET, Argentina, and director of the Digital Humanities Laboratory HD CAICYT Lab.

DOMENICO FIORMONTE is lecturer in the sociology of communication and culture, Department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University. He is the author of Per una critica del testo digitale. Filologia, letteratura e rete (A critique of the digital text: Philology, literature, and the internet) and coauthor of The Digital Humanist: A Critical Inquiry.

LEONARDO FOLETTO is a postdoctoral researcher at LabCidade, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and publisher of BaixaCultura.org. He is the author of A Cultura é Livre: uma história da resistência antipropriedade (Culture is free: A history of anti-copyright resistance).

RAHUL K. GAIROLA is Krishna Somers Senior Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature at Murdoch University, Australia. He is coeditor of South Asian Digital Humanities and author of Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging.

SOFIA GAVRILOVA is postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany.

ANDRE GOODRICH is director of the School for Social Sciences, North-West University, South Africa.

ANITA GURUMURTHY is a founding member and executive director of IT for Change, Bengaluru, India. She is advisor and expert on various bodies, including the UN Secretary-General’s 10-Member Group in support of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism, the Paris Peace Forum’s working group on algorithmic governance, and the board of Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab.

ALIZ HORVATH is assistant professor of East Asian history and digital humanities at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. She has published on the mechanisms of transnational intellectual flows in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean history and on the role and significance of multilingualism in the digital humanities.

IGOR KIM is chief researcher at the Institute of Philology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian branch). He is the author (in Russian) of The Personal Sphere of a Person and coeditor of Power in the Russian Linguistic and Ethnic Picture of the World.

INNA KIZHNER is lecturer in the Department of Information Technology in creative and cultural industries, Siberian Federal University, Russia, and coeditor of the Russian edition of Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader.

CÉDRIC LETERME is research fellow at the Tricontinental Center (CETRI), Belgium, and at the Research Group for an Alternative Economic Strategy (GRESEA). He is author of L’avenir du travail vu du Sud: Critiques de la “quatrième révolution industrielle.”

ANDRES LOMBANA-BERMUDEZ is assistant professor of communication at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, and associate researcher at the Centro ISUR, Universidad del Rosario in Colombia. He is faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, United States.

LEV MANOVICH is Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include Cultural Analytics, AI Aesthetics, and Instagram and Contemporary Image.

ITAY MARIENBERG-MILIKOWSKY is senior lecturer in Hebrew literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author (in Hebrew) of An Introduction to Computational Literary Studies and Digital Humanities and “We Know Not What Has Become of Him”: Literature and Meaning in Talmudic Aggadah.

MACIEJ MARYL is assistant professor and founding director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

NIRMALA MENON is associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India, and research lead for digital humanities and publishing. She is the author of Re-Mapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon and Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitanisms.

BORIS OREKHOV is associate professor at the School of Linguistics, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Moscow. He is the author (in Russian) of Bashkir Verse in the Twentieth Century.

ERNESTO PRIEGO is senior lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Human–Computer Interaction Design at City, University of London, and cofounder and editor of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

SYLVIA FERNÁNDEZ QUINTANILLA is assistant professor with the Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University, United States.

PAOLA RICAURTE is associate professor in the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. She cofounded Tierra Común, a network of scholars, practitioners, and activists interested in decolonizing data regimes.

NURIA RODRÍGUEZ-ORTEGA is professor of digital art history, University of Málaga, Spain. She is president of the Sociedad Internacional de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas, editor of Catálogos Desencadenados, and coeditor of Airing the Past: Inquiry into Digital Memories and Digital Mellini’s Inventory Inverse.

STEFFEN ROTH is professor of management at the La Rochelle Business School, France, and adjunct professor of economic sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. He is a field editor for the journal Systems Research and Behavioral Science.

DIBYADYUTI ROY is assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India, and a founding member of the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI).

MAXIM RUMYANTSEV is associate professor in the Department of Information Technology in Creative and Cultural Industries, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. He is rector of Siberian Federal University.

PUTHIYA PURAYIL SNEHA is a researcher with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bengaluru, India. She is the author of Mapping Digital Humanities in India.

JUAN STEYN is project manager at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources. He is on the executive board of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa.

MELISSA TERRAS is professor of digital cultural heritage at the University of Edinburgh, director of the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture, and Society, and director of research at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her latest book is Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future.

ERNESTO MIRANDA TRIGUEROS is professor of digital humanities at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, Mexico, and a consultant and project developer in policy, creative industries, and digital strategies for cultural heritage and the arts.

LIK HANG TSUI is assistant professor, Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong. He convenes a research cluster on Digital Society in his university’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and is a cofounder of 01Lab.

TIM UNWIN is founding chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D and emeritus professor of geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His latest book is Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development. He is also author of Wine and the Vine and coeditor of Journal of Wine Research.

LEI ZHANG is associate professor of English and rhetorical studies at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. She is coeditor of Affect, Emotion, and Rhetorical Persuasion in Mass Communication.

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