Contents

Introduction

A DH That Matters | Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein

Part I. Possibilities and Constraints

1. Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes? | Laura Mandell

2. Toward a Critical Black Digital Humanities | Safiya Umoja Noble

3 Can Video Games Be Humanities Scholarship? | James Coltrain and Stephen Ramsay

4. “They Also Serve”: What DH Might Learn about Controversy and Service from Disciplinary Analogies | Claire Warwick

5. No Signal without Symbol: Decoding the Digital Humanities | David M. Berry, M. Beatrice Fazi, Ben Roberts, and Alban Webb

blog posts and short essays

6. Digital Humanities and the Great Project: Why We Should Operationalize Everything—and Study Those Who Are Doing So Now | R. C. Alvarado

7. Data First: Remodeling the Digital Humanities Center | Neil Fraistat

8. The DH Bubble: Startup Logic, Sustainability, and Performativity | David S. Roh

9. The Scandal of Digital Humanities | Brian Greenspan

10. Digital Humanities as a Semi-Normal Thing | Ted Underwood

Part II. Theories and Approaches

11. Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and Black Digitality | Marisa Parham

12. Unremembering the Forgotten | Tim Sherratt

13. Reading for Enactment: A Performative Approach to Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization | Kyle Parry

14. The Care of Enchanted Things | Kari Kraus

blog posts and short essays

15. Zonas de Contacto: A Digital Humanities Ecology of Knowledges | Élika Ortega

16. The Digital Humanities and “Critical Theory”: An Institutional Cautionary Tale | John Hunter

17. The Elusive Digital / Critical Synthesis | Seth Long and James Baker

18. The Archive after Theory | Megan Ward with Adrian S. Wisnicki

Part III. Methods and Practices

19. Teaching Quantitative Methods: What Makes It Hard (in Literary Studies) | Andrew Goldstone

20. Videographic Criticism as a Digital Humanities Method | Jason Mittell

21. Spaces of Meaning: Conceptual History, Vector Semantics, and Close Reading | Michael Gavin, Collin Jennings, Lauren Kersey, and Brad Pasanek

22. Paid to Do but Not to Think: Reevaluating the Role of Graduate Student Collaborators | Rachel Mann

blog posts and short essays

23. Against Cleaning | Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz

24. New Data? The Role of Statistics in DH | Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton

25. Making Time: Workflow and Learning Outcomes in DH Assignments | David “Jack” Norton

26. Not Just Guns but Bullets, Too: “Deconstructive” and “Constructive” Making within the Digital Humanities | Matt Ratto

Part IV. Disciplines and Institutions

27. A Conversation on Digital Art History | Johanna Drucker and Claire Bishop

28. Volumetric Cinema | Kevin L. Ferguson

29. Joyce and the Graveyard of Digital Empires | Elyse Graham

30. Educational Technology and the Humanities: A History of Control | Curtis Fletcher

blog posts and short essays

31. A Braided Narrative for Digital History | Lincoln Mullen

32. Are Para-Academic Career Paths about People or Places? Reflections on Infrastructure as the European Alt-ac | Jennifer Edmond

33. The Making of the Digital Working Class: Social History, Digital Humanities, and Its Sources | Andrew Gomez

34. Mixed Methodological Digital Humanities | Moacir P. de Sá Pereira

35. From Humanities to Scholarship: Librarians, Labor, and the Digital | Bobby L. Smiley

Part V. Forum: Ethics, Theories, and Practices of Care

36. Forum Introduction | Lauren F. Klein and Matthew K. Gold

37. Capacity through Care | Bethany Nowviskie

38. Material Care | Steven J. Jackson

39. Caring Archives of Subalternity? | Radhika Gajjala

40. A Pedagogical Search for Home and Care | Marta Effinger-Crichlow

41. DH Adjuncts: Social Justice and Care | Kathi Inman Berens

42. Self-Care Is Crunk | The Crunk Feminist Collective

43. The Black Box and Speculative Care | Mark Sample

44. A Care Worthy of Its Time | Jussi Parikka

Acknowledgments

Contributors