A new companion to digital humanities
by Schreibman, Susan Siemens, Raymond George Unsworth, John
This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving disciplineIncludes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro co…
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- Full title :A new companion to digital humanities / ed. by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth.
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This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving disciplineIncludes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalizationBrings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanitiesAccessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanitiesSurveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities.
Title Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I: Infrastructures; 1 Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities; Learning from Lego; What is Physical Computing?; What is Desktop Fabrication?; Design Agenda: Design-in-Use; Administrative and Communicative Agendas: Makerspaces; References and Further Reading; 2 Embodiment, Entanglement, and Immersion in Digital Cultural Heritage; Reframing Visualization; Immersive Applications in Cultural Heritage Visualization; Reformulation of Digital Cultural Archives; Panoramic Immersion.
Embodiment in Cultural Heritage VisualizationEmbodiment Theories; The Machine-Body Ensemble; Embodiment in The Pure Land; Evaluating the Embodied Experience; Conclusion; References and further reading; 3 The Internet of Things; What is the Internet of Things?; The Internet of Things as Design Fiction; Digital Humanities in a Programmable World; References and further reading; 4 Collaboration and Infrastructure; Collaboration and the Digital Humanities; Infrastructure; Challenges Ahead: Enduring Tensions in the Scholarly Research Ecosystem; References and further reading; Part II: Creation.
5 Becoming InterdisciplinaryBeing Curious; Recent History of Interest; Curiosity's Machine and the Individual; The Aim and the Difficulties; The Meta-Discipline of Interdisciplinary Explorations; The How; Digital Humanities; Coda; References and further reading; 6 New Media and Modeling: Games and the Digital Humanities; References and further reading; 7 Exploratory Programming in Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Research; How Humanists Benefit from Learning to Program; Cognitively: Programming Helps us Think; Culturally: Programming gives Insight into Systems of Communication and Art.
Socially: Computation can Help to Build a Better WorldProgramming is Creative and Fun; Exploratory Programming; References and further reading; 8 Making Virtual Worlds; Definitions; Interventions in History; Fast Making; Documentation; Annotation; Interpretation; Argumentation; Conclusions; References; Further reading; 9 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities; Creative Writing in Digital Media as Digital Humanities Research; Beyond Creative Production: Platforms, Scholarship, and Research Infrastructure in Electronic Literature; References and further reading; 10 Social Scholarly Editing.
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- Publication Date:2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016
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Description based upon print version of record.
The Physical Object
- Description:Online-Ressource (XVIII, 567 S.) : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1118680634, 9781118680636, 9781118680599, 1118680596, 9781118680643, 1118680642, 9781118680605, 111868060X
- DOI:10.1002/9781118680605
- oclc:on1030620462
- LC Classification:AZ105
- Dewey Decimal:001.30285
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