Digital humanities

Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry -- including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation -- to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship. Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry--including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation--to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Included are chapters on the basics, on emerging methods and genres, and on the social life of the digital humanities, along with "case studies," "provocations," and "advisories." These persuasively crafted interventions offer a descriptive toolkit for anyone involved in the design, production, oversight, and review of digital projects. The authors argue that the digital humanities offers a revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship Contents 6 Preface 8 1. HUMANITIES TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES 12 2. EMERGING METHODS AND GENRES 38 Enhanced Critical Curation 43 Augmented Editions and Fluid Textuality 46 Scale: The Law of Large Numbers 48 Distant/Close, Macro/Micro, Surface/Depth 50 Cultural Analytics, Aggregation, and Data-Mining 51 Visualization and Data Design 53 Locative Investigation and Thick Mapping 56 The Animated Archive 58 Distributed Knowledge Production and Performative Access 60 Humanities Gaming 62 Code, Software, and Platform Studies 64 Database Documentaries 65 Repurposable Content and Remix Culture 66 Pervasive Infrastructure 68 Ubiquitous Scholarship 69 A PORTFOLIO OF CASE STUDIES 72 Case Study 1: Mapping Differential Geographies in the New World Encounter 73 Case Study 2: Expanded Publication of a Textual Corpus of Papyrus Fragments from the Alexandria Library 75 Case Study 3: Augmented Objects & Spaces: Jewish Ritual Objects in Diaspora 77 Case Study 4: Virtual Reconstruction of an Afghan Refugee Camp as a Site for Cultural Memory 79 Case Study 5: Multi-Authored Locative Investigation of the Zenon Headquarters and Corporate Archives 81 3. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES 84 4. PROVOCATIONS 110 A SHORT GUIDE TO THE DIGITAL_HUMANITIES 132 Afterword: Notes on Production 148 Reference Networks 151 A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century. Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry-including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation-to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship "Included are chapters on the basics, on emerging methods and genres, and on the social life of the digital humanities, along with "case studies," "provocations," and "advisories." These persuasively crafted interventions offer a descriptive toolkit for anyone involved in the design, production, oversight, and review of digital projects. The authors argue that the digital humanities offers a revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship." [Taken from Overview] Humanities to digital humanities Emerging methods and genres The social life of digital humanities Provocations Afterword Index.