Abstract
Research Methods for the Digital Humanities introduces a range of approaches, which use computing tools to understand cultural material and apply interpretive theories to explore digital technologies. This chapter surveys the field, including significant advances, debates, and competing definitions. We position the book among these debates and indicate some ways in which the book can be used by students and researchers. We end with an overview of the book’s chapters.
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Notes
- 1.
Willard McCarty, Humanities Computing (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 5.
- 2.
Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012), 5.
- 3.
Matthew K. Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), xi.
- 4.
Daniel Apollon, Claire Bélisle, and Philippe Régnier, Digital Critical Editions (Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014); Matthew Jockers, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014); Stephen Ramsay, Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism (Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011); Christian Vandendorpe, From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library (Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009).
- 5.
Daniel Allington, Sara Brouillette, and David Golumbia, “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 1, 2016. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/neoliberal-tools-archives-political-history-digital-humanities/.
- 6.
Ibid.
- 7.
Alexander R. Galloway, The Interface Effect (New York, NY: Polity Press, 2012), 27.
- 8.
Jagoda Macroanalysis, 359.
- 9.
Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011).
- 10.
Johanna Drucker, quoted in Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 86.
- 11.
Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator,” trans. Harry Zohn, in Selected Writings, ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, 253–263 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996 [1923]).
- 12.
Johanna Drucker, quoted in Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 86.
- 13.
Lisa Spiro, quoted in Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 16.
- 14.
David Staley, “On the ‘Maker Turn’ in the Humanities,” in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities, ed. Jentery Sayers (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2017).
- 15.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, quoted in Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 13–14.
- 16.
Stephen Ramsay, quoted in Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, x.
- 17.
Anne Balsamo, Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 177.
- 18.
Terry Flew, New Media: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), 41.
- 19.
McCarty, Humanities Computing, 4.
- 20.
Ibid., 119.
- 21.
Svensson in Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, 41.
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Neilson, T., levenberg, l., Rheams, D. (2018). Introduction: Research Methods for the Digital Humanities. In: levenberg, l., Neilson, T., Rheams, D. (eds) Research Methods for the Digital Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96713-4_1
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