Full Description
This book explores the emergence of digital humanities in the Indian context. It looks at how online and digital resources have transformed classroom and research practices. It examines some fundamental questions: What is digital humanities? Who is a digital humanist? What is its place in the Indian context?
The chapters in the volume:
• study the varied practices and pedagogies involved in incorporating the 'digital' into traditional classrooms;
• showcase how researchers across disciplinary lines are expanding their scope of research, by adding a 'digital' component to update their curriculum to contemporary times;
• highlight how this has also created opportunities for researchers to push the boundaries of their pedagogy and encouraged students to create 'live projects' with the aid of digital platforms; and
• track changes in the language of research, documentation, archiving and reproduction as new conversations are opening up across Indian languages.
A major intervention in the social sciences and humanities, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of media studies, especially new and digital media, education, South Asian studies and cultural studies.
Contents
Introduction PART I: Digital Histories 1. Digital Infrastructures and Technoutopian Fantasies: The Colonial Roots of Technology Aid in the Global South 2. A Question of Digital Humanities in India 3. Historians and their Public 4. Mapping Change: The Possibilities for the Spatial Humanities in India PART II: Digital Institutions and Pedagogies 5. Museum Collections in India and the Digital Space 6. Processes of Pluralisation: Digital Databases and Art Writing in India 7. Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogy, Publishing and Practices 8. Digital Humanities, or What You Will: Bringing DH to Indian Classrooms 9. Decolonising Design: Making Critically in India PART III: Subaltern Digital Humanities 10. Ethics and Feminist Archiving in the Digital Age: An Interview with CS Lakshmi 11. Designing LGBT Archive Frameworks 12. Fieldwork with the Digital PART IV: Digital Practices 13. Digital Humanities Practices and Cultural Heritage: Indian Video Games 14. Notes from a Newsroom: Interrogating the Transformation of Hindustan Times in a "Digital" Space 15. Did Digital Kill The Radio Star? The Changing Landscape of the Audio Industry with the Advent of New Digital Media
