The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age.
Comprising 43 essays from some of the field’s leading scholars and practitioners, this comprehensive collection examines, among its many subjects, the emergence and ongoing development of DH, postcolonial digital humanities, feminist digital humanities, race and DH, multilingual digital humanities, media studies as DH, the failings of DH, critical digital humanities, the future of text encoding, cultural analytics, natural language processing, open access and digital publishing, digital cultural heritage, archiving and editing, sustainability, DH pedagogy, labour, artificial intelligence, the cultural economy, and the role of the digital humanities in climate change.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities:
Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability.
Reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of the digital humanities.
Features an intuitive structure which divides topics across five sections: “Perspectives & Polemics”, “Methods, Tools & Techniques”, “Public Digital Humanities”, “Institutional Contexts”, and “DH Futures”.
Comprehensive in scope and accessibility written, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities and wider arts and humanities.
Featuring contributions from pre-eminent scholars and radical thinkers both established and emerging, The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities should long serve as a roadmap through the myriad formulations, methodologies, opportunities, and limitations of DH. Comprehensive in its scope, pithy in style yet forensic in its scholarship, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities, whatever DH might be, and whatever DH might become.

James O’Sullivan is Lecturer in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland.

Reconsidering the Present and Future of the Digital Humanities
James O’SullivanI. Perspectives & PolemicsNormative Digital Humanities
Johanna Drucker The Peripheries and Epistemic Margins of Digital Humanities
Domenico Fiormonte & Gimena del Rio RiandeDigital Humanities Outlooks Beyond the West
Langa Khumalo & Titilola AiyegbusiPostcolonial Digital Humanities Reconsidered
Roopika RisamRace, Otherness, and the Digital Humanities
Rahul K. GairolaQueer Digital Humanities
Jason Boyd & Bo RubergFeminist Digital Humanities
Amy E. EarhartMultilingual Digital Humanities
Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez & Quinn DombrowskiDigital Humanities and/as Media Studies
Abigail Moreshead & Anastasia SalterAutoethnographies of Mediation
Julie M. Funk & Jentery SayersThe Dark Side of DH
James SmithiesII. Methods, Tools & Techniques Critical Digital Humanities
David M. BerryDoes Coding Matter for Doing Digital Humanities?
Quinn DombrowskiThe Present and Future of Encoding Text(s)
James CummingsOn Computers in Text Analysis
Joanna ByszukThe Possibilities and Limitations of Natural Language Processing for the Humanities
Alexandra SchofieldAnalysing Audio/Visual Data in the Digital Humanities
Taylor Arnold & Lauren TiltonSocial Media, Research, and the Digital Humanities
Naomi WellsSpatializing the Humanities
Stuart DunnVisualising Humanities Data
Shawn L. DayIII. Public Digital Humanities Open Access in the Humanities Disciplines
Martin Paul EveOld Books, New Books and Digital Publishing
Elena Pierazzo & Peter StokesDigital Humanities and the Academic Books of the Future
Jane WintersDigital Humanities and Digitised Cultural Heritage
Melissa TerrasSharing as CARE and FAIR in the Digital Humanities
Patrick Egan & Órla MurphyDigital Archives as Socially and Civically Just Public Resources
Kent GerberIV. Institutional ContextsTool Criticism through Playful Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Max KemmanThe Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy
Brian Croxall & Diane JakackiBuilding Digital Humanities Centres
Michael PiddEmbracing Decline in Digital Scholarship beyond Sustainability
Anna-Maria Sichani Libraries and the Problem of Digital Humanities Discovery
Roxanne ShiraziLabour, Alienation, and the Digital Humanities
Shawna Ross & Andrew PilschDigital Humanities at Work in the World
Sarah Ruth JacobsV. DH Futures Datawork and the Future of DH
Rafael AlvaradoThe Place of Computation in the Study of Culture
Daniel AllingtonThe Grand Challenges of Digital Humanities
Andrew PrescottDigital Humanities, Open Social Scholarship, and Engaged Publics
Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, and the INKE Partnership Digital Humanities and Cultural Economy
Tully BarnettBringing a Design Mindset (DM) to Digital Humanities (DH)
Mary GalvinReclaiming the Future with Old Media
Lori EmersonThe (literary) text and its futures
Anne KarhioAI, Ethics, and Digital Humanities
David M. BerryDigital Humanities in the Age of Extinction
Graham Allen & Jenni DeBie

“Presents contributions about a wide range of topics, showing how digital humanities has matured and how it still pushes the boundaries in academia. A lot of attention is given to the difficulties, discussions, and other aspects of its ‘dark side’. Greatly recommended!” —Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Professor of Computational Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands“This remarkably varied collection of provocations, orientations, and reflections will be as useful for teaching as it will for spurring dialogue among those already immersed in digital humanities. A landmark and a valuable resource.” —Julia Flanders, Professor of English and Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University, USA

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