"Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities.
Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities.
Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology as both a scholarly tool and a cultural object in need of analysis.
The contributors explore the state of the art in digital humanities from varied disciplinary perspectives, offer a sample of digitally inflected work that ranges from an analysis of computational literature to the collaborative development of a ""Global Middle Ages"" humanities platform, and examine new models for knowledge production and infrastructure. Their contributions show not only that the digital has prompted the humanities to move beyond traditional scholarly horizons, but also that the humanities have pushed the digital to become more than a narrowly technical application.
Contributors Ian Bogost, Anne Cong-Huyen, Mats Dahlstr m, Cathy N. Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Amy E. Earhart, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Maurizio Forte, Zephyr Frank, David Theo Goldberg, Jennifer Gonzalez, Jo Guldi, N. Katherine Hayles, Geraldine Heng, Larissa Hjorth, Tim Hutchings, Henry Jenkins, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Cecilia Lindhe, Alan Liu, Elizabeth Losh, Tara McPherson, Chandra Mukerji, Nick Montfort, Jenna Ng, Bethany Nowviskie, Jennie Olofsson, Lisa Parks, Natalie Phillips, Todd Presner, Stephen Rachman, Patricia Seed, Nishant Shah, Ray Siemens, Jentery Sayers, Jonathan Sterne, Patrik Svensson, William G. Thomas III, Whitney Anne Trettien, Michael Widner"
Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I THE FIELD OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 9 1 The Example: Some Historical Considerations 17 Jonathan Sterne 2 Humanities in the Digital Age 35 Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III 3 Me? A Digital Humanist? 41 Chandra Mukerji 4 Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities 55 Todd Presner 5 “ Does This Technology Serve Human Purposes? ” A “ Necessary Conversation ” with Sherry Turkle 69 Henry Jenkins 6 Humanist Computing at the End of the Individual Voice and the Authoritative Text 83 Johanna Drucker 7 Beyond Infrastructure: Re-humanizing Digital Humanities in India 95 Nishant Shah 8 Toward a Transnational Asian/American Digital Humanities: A #transformDH Invitation 109 Anne Cong-Huyen 9 Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground 121 Ian Bogost 10 Why Yack Needs Hack (and Vice versa): From Digital Humanities to Digital Literacy 131 Cathy N. Davidson 11 Toward Problem-Based Modeling in the Digital Humanities 145 Ray Siemens and Jentery Sayers 12 Deprovincializing Digital Humanities 163 David Theo Goldberg II INFLECTING FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES 173 13 Circuit-Bending History: Sketches toward a Digital Schematic 181 Whitney Anne Trettien 14 Medieval Materiality through the Digital Lens 193 Cecilia Lindh é 15 Computational Literature 205 Nick Montfort 16 The Cut between Us: Digital Remix and the Expression of Self 217 Jenna Ng 17 Locating the Mobile and Social: A Preliminary Discussion of Camera Phones and Locative Media 229 Larissa Hjorth 18 “ Did You Mean ‘ Why Are Women Cranky? ’ ” Google — A Means of Inscription, a Means of De-Inscription? 243 Jennie Olofsson 19 Time Wars of the Twentieth Century and the Twenty-first Century Toolkit: The History and Politics of Longue-duree Thinking as a Prelude to the Digital Analysis of the Past 253 Jo Guldi 20 An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities: Envisioning Globalities 500 – 1500 CE 267 Geraldine Heng and Michael Widner 21 Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion 283 Tim Hutchings 22 Cyber Archaeology: A Post-virtual Perspective 295 Maurizio Forte 23 Literature, Neuroscience, and Digital Humanities 311 Natalie Phillips and Stephen Rachman III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, LEARNING, AND INFRASTRUCTURE 329 24 The Humanistiscope — Exploring the Situatedness of Humanities Infrastructure 337 Patrik Svensson 25 “ Stuff You Can Kick ” : Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures 355 Lisa Parks 26 Distant Mirrors and the LAMP 375 Matthew Kirschenbaum 27 Resistance in the Materials 383 Bethany Nowviskie 28 The Digital Humanities as a Laboratory 391 Amy E. Earhart 29 A Map Is Not a Picture: How the Digital World Threatens the Validity of Printed Maps 401 Patricia Seed 30 Spatial History as Scholarly Practice 411 Zephyr Frank 31 Utopian Pedagogies: Teaching from the Margins of the Digital Humanities 429 Elizabeth Losh 32 The Face and the Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice 441 Jennifer Gonz á lez 33 Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age 457 Kathleen Fitzpatrick 34 Critical Transmission 467 Mats Dahlstr ö m 35 Post-Archive: The Humanities, the Archive, and the Database 483 Tara McPherson 36 Final Commentary: A Provocation 503 N. Katherine Hayles References 507 Index 565
Patrik Svensson is Professor of Digital Humanities and former Director of HUMlab (2000-2014) at Ume University, Sweden. David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine.
