Defining Digital Humanities

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

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6963-6
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count: 3
Book Status: Available
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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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Table of Contents

    • 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