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. Published simultaneously in print, e-book, and interactive webtext formats, each DH annual will be a book-length publication highlighting the particular debates that have shaped the discipline in a given year. By identifying key issues as they unfold, and by providing a hybrid model of open-access publication, these volumes and the Debates in the Digital Humanities series will articulate the present contours of the field and help forge its future. Contributors: Moya Bailey, Northeastern U; Fiona Barnett; Matthew Battles, Harvard U; Jeffrey M. Binder; Zach Blas, U of London; Cameron Blevins, Rutgers U; Sheila A. Brennan, George Mason U; Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College; Rachel Sagner Buurma, Swarthmore College; Micha Cárdenas, U of Washington–Bothell; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown U; Tanya E. Clement, U of Texas–Austin; Anne Cong-Huyen, Whittier College; Ryan Cordell, Northeastern U; Tressie McMillan Cottom, Virginia Commonwealth U; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Domenico Fiormonte, U of Roma Tre; Paul Fyfe, North Carolina State U; Jacob Gaboury, Stony Brook U; Kim Gallon, Purdue U; Alex Gil, Columbia U; Brian Greenspan, Carleton U; Richard Grusin, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Michael Hancher, U of Minnesota; Molly O'Hagan Hardy; David L. Hoover, New York U; Wendy F. Hsu; Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago; Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State U; Steven E. Jones, Loyola U; Margaret Linley, Simon Fraser U; Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Losh, U of California, San Diego; Alexis Lothian, U of Maryland; Michael Maizels, Wellesley College; Mark C. Marino, U of Southern California; Anne B. McGrail, Lane Community College; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Julianne Nyhan, U College London; Amanda Phillips, U of California, Davis; Miriam Posner, U of California, Los Angeles; Rita Raley, U of California, Santa Barbara; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Margaret Rhee, U of Oregon; Lisa Marie Rhody, Graduate Center, CUNY; Roopika Risam, Salem State U; Stephen Robertson, George Mason U; Mark Sample, Davidson College; Jentery Sayers, U of Victoria; Benjamin M. Schmidt, Northeastern U; Scott Selisker, U of Arizona; Jonathan Senchyne, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Stauffer, U of Virginia; Joanna Swafford, SUNY New Paltz; Toniesha L. Taylor, Prairie View A&M U; Dennis Tenen; Melissa Terras, U College London; Anna Tione; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign; Ethan Watrall, Michigan State U; Jacqueline Wernimont, Arizona State U; Laura Wexler, Yale U; Hong-An Wu, U of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. 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’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential Of Digital Humanities / Miriam Posner -- Making A Case For The Black Digital Humanities / Kim Gallon -- Queeros: A User’s Manual / Fiona Barnett, Zach Blas, Micha Cárdenas, Jacob Gaboury, Jessica Marie Johnson, And Margaret Rhee. Blog Posts And Short Essays. Father Busa’s 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 / Mark C. Marino -- Where Is Methodology In Digital Humanities? / Tanya E. Clement. Blog Posts And Short Essays. Resistance In The Materials / Bethany Nowviskie -- Interview With Ernesto Oroza / Alex Gil -- Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections On The Introductory Graduate Syllabus / Scott Selisker. Part Iii. Digital Humanities And Its Practices. Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, And The Humanities / Jeffrey M. Binder -- My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization And The Future Of The Print Record / Andrew Stauffer -- Argument, Evidence, And The Limits Of Digital Literary Studies / David L. Hoover -- Pedagogies Of Race: Digital Humanities In The Age Of Ferguson / Amy E. Earhart And Toniesha L. Taylor. Blog Posts And Short Essays. Here And There: Creating Dh Community / Miriam Posner -- The Sympathetic Research Imagination: The Digital Humanities And The Liberal Arts / Rachel Sagner Buurma And Anna Tione Levine -- Co-working With The Public: Lessons On Public Humanities From The Civic Sphere / Wendy F. Hsu. Part Iv. Digital Humanities And The Disciplines. The Differences Between Digital Humanities And Digital History / Stephen Robertson -- Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense / Cameron Blevins -- Collections And/of Data: Art History And The Art Museum In The Dh Mode / Matthew Battles And Michael Maizels -- Archaeology, The Digital Humanities, And The Big Tent / Ethan Watrall ; Navigating The Global Digital Humanities: Insights From Black Feminism / Roopika Risam. Blog Posts And Short Essays. Between Knowledge And Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders In Digital Humanities And Library And Information Studies / Jonathan Senchyne -- Black Printers On White Cards: Information Architecture In The Data Structures Of The Early American Book Trades / Molly O’hagan Hardy -- Public, First / Sheila A. Brennan. Part V. Digital Humanities And Its Critics. Are Digital Humanists Utopian? / Brian Greenspan -- The Ecological Entanglements Of Dh / Margaret Linley -- Towards A Cultural Critique Of Digital Humanities / Domenico Fiormonte -- How Not To Teach Digital Humanities / Ryan Cordell -- Dropping The Digital / Jentery Sayers. Blog Posts And Short Essays. The Dark Side Of The Digital Humanities / Wendy Chun, Richard Grusin, Patrick Jagoda, Rita Raley -- Difficult Thinking About The Digital Humanities / Mark Sample -- The Humane Digital / Timothy Burke -- Hold On Loosely; Or, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft On The Web / Ted Underwood. Part Vi. Forum: Text Analysis At Scale. Humane Computation / Stephen Ramsay -- Distant Reading And Recent Intellectual History / Ted Underwood -- The Ground Truth Of Dh Text Mining / Tanya E. Clement -- Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches To Text Analysis / Lisa Marie Rhody -- More Scale, More Questions: Observations From Sociology / Tressie Mcmillan Cottom -- Do Digital Humanists Need To Understand Algorithms? / Benjamin M. Schmidt -- Messy Data And Faulty Tools: Overcoming Obstacles In Large-scale Text Analysis / Joanna Swafford -- N + 1: A Plea For Cross-domain Data In The Digital Humanities / Alan Liu. Matthew K. Gold And Lauren F. Klein, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References. Cover Half Tile Title Copyright Contents INTRODUCTION: Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field PART I: Histories and Futures of the Digital Humanities 1 The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (as the Network Is Everting) 2 The “Whole Game”: Digital Humanities at Community Colleges 3 What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities 4 Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities 5 QueerOS: A User’s Manual BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS 6 Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives 7 On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack” 8 Reflections on a Movement: #transformDH, Growing Up PART II: Digital Humanities and Its Methods 9 Blunt Instrumentalism: On Tools and Methods 10 Putting the Human Back into the Digital Humanities: Feminism, Generosity, and Mess 11 Mid-Sized Digital Pedagogy 12 Re: Search and Close Reading 13 Why We Must Read the Code: The Science Wars, Episode IV 14 Where Is Methodology in Digital Humanities? BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS 15 Resistance in the Materials 16 Interview with Ernesto Oroza 17 Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate Syllabus PART III: Digital Humanities and Its Practices 18 Alien Reading: Text Mining, Language Standardization, and the Humanities 19 My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future of the Print Record 20 Argument, Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Literary Studies 21 Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS 22 Here and There: Creating DH Community 23 The Sympathetic Research Imagination: Digital Humanities and the Liberal Arts 24 Lessons on Public Humanities from the Civic Sphere PART IV: Digital Humanities and the Disciplines 25 The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History 26 Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense 27 Collections and/of Data: Art History and the Art Museum in the DH Mode 28 Archaeology, the Digital Humanities, and the “Big Tent” 29 Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS 30 Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies 31 “Black Printers” on White Cards: Information Architecture in the Data Structures of the Early American Book Trades 32 Public, First PART V: Digital Humanities and Its Critics 33 Are Digital Humanists Utopian? 34 Ecological Entanglements of DH 35 Toward a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities 36 How Not to Teach Digital Humanities 37 Dropping the Digital BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS 38 The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities 39 Difficult Thinking about the Digital Humanities 40 The Humane Digital 41 Hold on Loosely, or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft on the Web PART VI: Forum: Text Analysis at Scale 42 Introduction 43 Humane Computation 44 Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History 45 The Ground Truth of DH Text Mining 46 Why I Dig: Feminist Approaches to Text Analysis 47 More Scale, More Questions: Observations from Sociology 48 Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms? 49 Messy Data and Faulty Tools 50 N + 1: A Plea for Cross-Domain Data in the Digital Humanities SERIES INTRODUCTION AND EDITORS’ NOTE CONTRIBUTORS