Defining Digital Humanities

Editor/Author Terras, Melissa, Nyhan, Julianne and Vanhoutte, Edward
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Price: Core Collection Only This title is available on our Core subscription collections and is not available for individual purchase.
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6963-6
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count: 3
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. Chapters provide a historical overview of how the term 'Humanities Computing' developed into the term 'Digital Humanities', and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field.

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Julianne Nyhan, Melissa Terras and Edward Vanhoutte
SECTION I: HUMANITIES COMPUTING
1 Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline? - Geoffrey Rockwell
2 What is Humanities Computing and What is Not? - John Unsworth
3 Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities - Jerome McGann
4 Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse ‘Humanities Computing’ - Melissa Terras
5 Tree, Turf, Centre, Archipelago – or Wild Acre? Metaphors and Stories for Humanities Computing - Willard McCarty
6 The Gates of Hell: History and Definition of Digital | Humanities | Computing - Edward Vanhoutte
SECTION II: DIGITAL HUMANITIES
7 Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities - Patrik Svensson
8 Something Called Digital Humanities - Wendell Piez
9 What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments? - Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
10 The Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital ~ Scholarship - Julia Flanders
11 Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Digital Humanities - Paul Rosenbloom
SECTION III: FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE
12 Digital Humanities is a Spectrum, or “We're All Digital Humanists Now” - Lincoln Mullen
13 Who's In and Who's Out - Stephen Ramsay
14 On Building - Stephen Ramsay
15 Inclusion in the Digital Humanities - Geoffrey Rockwell
16 The Digital Humanities is not about Building, it's about Sharing - Mark Sample
17 I'm Chris, Where Am I Wrong? - Chris Forster
18 Peering Inside the Big Tent - Melissa Terras
19 ADHO, On Love and Money - Bethany Nowviskie
SECTION IV: VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY
20 Selected Definitions from the Day of Digital Humanities: 2009–2012
21 Digital Humanities Definitions by Type - Fred Gibbs
SECTION V: FURTHER MATERIALS
22 Selected Further Reading
23 Questions for Discussion