A New Companion to Digital Humanities

by Susan Schreibman (Editor), Ray Siemens (Editor), John Unsworth (Editor)

Overview

This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship.

• A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline
• Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization
• Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities
• Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities
• Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118680643
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/26/2016
Series:	Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Susan Schreibman is Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of An Foras Feasa, the Institute for Research in Irish Historical & Cultural Traditions at NUI Maynooth. Her research in the digital humanities ranges from text encoding and the creation of digital scholarly editions, to more recent interests in virtual worlds and data mining. She is the co-editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Ray Siemens, Wiley Blackwell, 2007), and the founding editor of several web-based projects, including Letters of 1916 (hhtp://letters1916.ie), The Thomas MacGreevy Archive (http://macgreevy.org), Irish Resources in the Humanities (hhtp://irith.org), and The Versioning Machine (http://v-machine.org), a tool to edit and visualize multiple versions of deeply-encoded text.

Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. In 2014 he received the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations’ Antonio Zampolli Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. Dr. Siemens has published numerous articles on the intersection of literary studies and computational methods and is the co-editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Susan Schreibman, Wiley Blackwell, 2007) and Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology (with Kenneth M. Price, 2013), the MLA's first born digital open access anthology. http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/.

John Unsworth is Professor of English, Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services, Chief Information Office, and University Librarian at Brandeis University. In August of 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Humanities Council. A co-founder of Postmodern Culture, the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, he organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium; co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions; served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations; as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

Preface xvii

Part I Infrastructures 1

1 Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities Jentery Saym Devon Elliott Kari Kraus Bethany Nowviskie William J. Turkel 3

2 Embodiment, Entanglement, and Immersion in Digital Cultural Heritage Sarah Kenderdine 22

3 The Internet of Things Finn Arne Jørgaisen 42

4 Collaboration and Infrastructure Jennifer Edmond 54

Part II Creation 67

5 Becoming Interdisciplinary Willard McCarty 69

6 New Media and Modeling: Games and the Digital Humanities Steven E. Jones 84

7 Exploratory Programming in Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Research Nick Montfort 98

8 Making Virtual Worlds Christopher Johanson 110

9 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities Scott Rettberg 127

10 Social Scholarly Editing Kenneth M. Price 137

11 Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines Lorna Hughes Panos Constantopoulos Costis Dallas 150

12 Tailoring Access to Content Séamus Lawless Owen Conlan Cormac Hampson 177

13 Ancient Evenings: Retrocomputing in the Digital Humanities Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 185

Part III Analysis 199

14 Mapping the Geospatial Turn Todd Presner David Shepard 201

15 Music Information Retrieval John Ashley Burgoyne Ichiro Fujinaga J. Stephen Downie 213

16 Dara Modeling Julia Flanders Fotis Jannidis 229

17 Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities Johanna Drucker 238

18 Zen and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge Dominic Oldman Martin Doerr Stefan Gradmann 251

19 Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count Stefan Sinclair Geoffrey Rockwell 274

20 Text-Mining the Humanities Matthew L. Jockers Ted Underwood 291

21 Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding Elena Pierazzo 307

22 Digital Matetiality Sydney J. Shep 322

23 Sctewmeneutics and Hermenumericals: The Computationality of Hermeneutics Joris J. van Zundert 331

24 When Texts of Study are Audio Files: Digital Tools for Sound Studies in Digital Humanities Tanya E. Clement 348

25 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions Jerome McGann 358

26 Classification and its Structures C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 377

Part IV Dissemination 395

27 Interface as Mediating Actor for Collection Access, Text Analysis, and Experimentation Stan Ruecker 397

28 Saving the Bits: Digital Humanities Forever? William Kilbride 408

29 Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities Melissa Terras 420

30 Peer Review Kathleen Fitzpatrick 439

31 Hard Constraints: Designing Software in the Digital Humanities Stephen Ramsay 449

Part V Past, Present, Future of Digital Humanities 459

32 Beyond the Digital Humanities Center: The Administrative Landscapes of the Digital Humanities Andrew Prescott 461

33 Sotting Out the Digital Humanities Patrik Svensson 476

34 Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities Daniel Paul O'Donnell Katherine L. Walter Alex Gil Neil Fraistat 493

35 Gendering Digital Litetaty History: What Counts for Digital Humanities Laura C. Mandell 511

36 The Promise of the Digital Humanities and the Contested Nature of Digital Scholarship William G. Thomas III 524

37 Building Theories or Theories of Building? A Tension at the Heart of Digital Humanities Claire Warwick 538

Index 553