Full Description
Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term 'Digital Humanities' is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We 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. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline. This text will be required reading for scholars and students who want to discover the history of Digital Humanities through its core writings, and for those who wish to understand the many possibilities that exist when trying to define Digital Humanities.
Contents
Acknowledgements, Notes on Contributors, Introduction, Section I: Humanities Computing, 1. Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?, 2. What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?, 3. Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities, 4. Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse 'Humanities Computing', 5. Tree, Turf, Centre, Archipelago - or Wild Acre? Metaphors and Stories for Humanities Computing, 6. The Gates of Hell: History and Definition of Digital | Humanities | Computing, Section II: Digital Humanities, 7. Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities, 8. Something Called Digital Humanities, 9. What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?, 10. The Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital Scholarship, 11. Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Digital Humanities, Section III: From the Blogosphere, 12. Digital Humanities is a Spectrum, or "We're All Digital Humanists Now", 13. Who's In and Who's Out, 14. On Building, 15. Inclusion in the Digital Humanities, 16. The Digital Humanities is not about Building, it's about Sharing, 17. I'm Chris, Where Am I Wrong?, 18. Peering Inside the Big Tent, 19. ADHO, On Love and Money, Section IV: Voices from the Community, 20. Selected Definitions from the Day of Digital Humanities: 2009-2012, 21. Digital Humanities Definitions by Type, Section V: Further Materials, 22. Selected Further Reading, 23. Questions for Discussion, Index
