Debates in the digital humanities 2016

Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its identity, methods, and reach. Pieces in the book explore how DH can and must change in response to social justice movements and events like #Ferguson; how DH alters and is altered by community college classrooms; and how scholars applying DH approaches to feminist studies, queer studies, and black studies might reframe the commitments of DH analysts. Numerous contributors examine the movement of interdisciplinary DH work into areas such as history, art history, and archaeology, and a special forum on large-scale text mining brings together position statements on a fast-growing area of DH research. In the multivalent aspects of its arguments, progressing across a range of platforms and environments, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 offers a vision of DH as an expanded field--new possibilities, differently structured.

Part I. Histories and Futures of the Digital Humanities. The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (as the Network is Everting) / Steven E. Jones -- The "Whole Game": Digital Humanities at Community Colleges / Anne B. McGrail -- What Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities / Miriam Posner -- Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities / Kim Gallon -- QueerOS: A User Manual / Fiona Barnett, Zach Blas, micha cárdenas, Jacob Gaboury, Jessica Marie Johnson, and Margaret Rhee. Blog Posts and Short Essays. Father Busa Female Punch Card Operatives / Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan -- On the Origin of "Hack" and "Yack" / Bethany Nowviskie -- Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, Growing Up / Moya Bailey, Anne Cong-Huyen, Alexis Lothian, and Amanda Phillips.

Part II. Digital Humanities and its Methods. Blunt Instrumentalism: On Tools and Methods / Dennis Tenen -- Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess / Elizabeth Losh, Jacqueline Wernimont, Laura Wexler, and Hong-An Wu -- Mid-sized Digital Pedagogy / Paul Fyfe -- Re: Search and Close Reading / Michael Hancher -- Why We Must Read the Code: The Science Wars: Episode IV …