Digital_humanities

by Burdick, Anne; Drucker, Johanna; Lunenfeld, Peter; Presner, Todd; Schnapp, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780262018470
• ISBN10: 0262018470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-16
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry--including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation--to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Included are chapters on the basics, on emerging methods and genres, and on the social life of the digital humanities, along with "case studies," "provocations," and "advisories." These persuasively crafted interventions offer a descriptive toolkit for anyone involved in the design, production, oversight, and review of digital projects. The authors argue that the digital humanities offers a revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century.Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Humanities to Digital Humanities	p. 1
Emerging Methods and Genres	p. 27
A Portfolio of Case Studies
Mapping Differential Geographies	p. 62
Expanded Publication of a Textual Corpus	p. 64
Augmented Objects & Spaces	p. 66
Virtual Reconstruction	p. 68
Multi-Authored Locative Investigation	p. 70
The Social Life of the Digital Humanities	p. 73
Provocations	p. 99
A Short Guide to the Digital_Humanities
Questions & Answers
Digital Humanities Fundamentals	p. 122
The Project as Basic Unit	p. 124
Institutions and Pragmatics	p. 126
Specifications
How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship	p. 128
Project-Based Scholarship	p. 130
Core Competencies in Processes and Methods	p. 132
Learning Outcomes for the Digital Humanities	p. 134
Creating Advocacy	p. 135
Afterword: Notes on Production	p. 137
Reference Networks	p. 140
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