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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew K. GoldPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.916kg ISBN: 9780816677955ISBN 10: 0816677956 Pages: 504 Publication Date: 09 January 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: The Digital Humanities Moment Matthew K. Gold Part I. Defining the Digital Humanities 1. What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? Matthew Kirschenbaum 2. The Humanities, Done Digitally Kathleen Fitzpatrick 3. This Is Why We Fight: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities Lisa Spiro 4. Beyond the Big Tent Patrik Svensson Blog Posts The Digital Humanities Situation Rafael Alvarado Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions? Tom Scheinfeldt Why Digital Humanities Is “Nice” Tom Scheinfeldt An Interview with Brett Bobley Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith Day of DH: Defining the Digital Humanities Part II. Theorizing the Digital Humanities 5. Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities Stephen Ramsay and Geoffrey Rockwell 6. Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship Johanna Drucker 7. This Digital Humanities which Is Not One Jamie “Skye” Bianco 8. A Telescope for the Mind? Willard McCarty Blog Posts Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology? Tom Scheinfeldt Has Critical Theory Run Out of Time for Data-Driven Scholarship? Gary Hall There Are No Digital Humanities Gary Hall Part III. Critiquing the Digital Humanities 9. Why Are the Digital Humanities So White?, or, Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation Tara McPherson 10. Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University Elizabeth Losh 11. Unseen and Unremarked On: Don DeLillo and the Failure of the Digital Humanities Mark L. Sample 12. Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities George H. Williams 13. The Digital Humanities and Its Users Charlie Edwards Blog Posts Digital Humanities Triumphant? William Pannapacker What Do Girls Dig? Bethany Nowviskie The Turtlenecked Hairshirt Ian Bogost Eternal September of the Digital Humanities Bethany Nowviskie Part IV. Practicing the Digital Humanities 14. Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method Matthew Wilkens 15. Electronic Errata: Digital Publishing, Open Review, and the Futures of Correction Paul Fyfe 16. The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time Neil Fraistat 17. Time, Labor, and “Alternate Careers” in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work Julia Flanders 18. Can Information Be Unfettered?: Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon Amy E. Earhart Blog Posts The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing Daniel J. Cohen Introducing Digital Humanities Now Daniel J. Cohen Text: A Massively Addressable Object Michael Witmore The Ancestral Text Michael Witmore Part V. Teaching the Digital Humanities 19. Digital Humanities and the “Ugly-Stepchildren” of American Higher Education Luke Waltzer 20. Graduate Education and the Ethics of the Digital Humanities Alexander Reid 21. Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities?: Process and Products in the Small College World Bryan Alexander and Rebecca Frost Davis 22. Where’s the Pedagogy?: The Role of Teaching and Learning in the Digital Humanities Stephen Brier Blog Posts Visualizing Millions of Words Mills Kelly What’s Wrong with Writing Essays Mark L. Sample Looking for Whitman: A Grand, Aggregated Experiment Matthew K. Gold and JimReviewsA substantial collection . . . [whose] contributors include most of the scholars who have been most prominent in the emergence of digital humanities over the past few years. -- Times Literary Supplement <br> Is there such a thing as 'digital' humanities? From statistical crunches of texts to new forms of online collaboration and peer review, it's clear something is happening. This book is an excellent primer on the arguments over just how much is changing--and how much more ought to--in the way scholars study the humanities. --Clive Thompson, columnist for Wired and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine <br> Though Debates in the Digital Humanities is well over 500 pages in length, there is no fat in it; all essays contain important information and concepts relating to DH. Taken together, the book as a whole and every essay in it is a must-read for anyone who claims to be a digital humanist whether she or he works in theory, pedagogy, and/or practice. -Leonardo Reviews I look forward to the day when anxieties about the disruptive nature of 'digital humanities' fade into memory and the innovative methods, theories, and approaches championed by those who have contributed to this valuable volume are respected across academia for their rigor and utility. This book will go a long way toward clarifying the debates within and about digital humanities. -Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything-and Why We Should Worry Is there such a thing as 'digital' humanities? From statistical crunches of texts to new forms of online collaboration and peer review, it's clear something is happening. This book is an excellent primer on the arguments over just how much is changing-and how much more ought to-in the way scholars study the humanities. -Clive Thompson, columnist for Wired and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine <p> I look forward to the day when anxieties about the disruptive nature of 'digital humanities' fade into memory and the innovative methods, theories, and approaches championed by those who have contributed to this valuable volume are respected across academia for their rigor and utility. This book will go a long way toward clarifying the debates within and about digital humanities. --Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything--and Why We Should Worry Author InformationMatthew K. Gold is associate professor of English and digital humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is advisor to the Provost for digital initiatives and director of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab. 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