Debates in the digital humanities. 2019

The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether Contending with recent developments like the shocking 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the radical transformation of the social web, and passionate debates about the future of data in higher education, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 brings together a broad array of important, thought-provoking perspectives on the field's many sides. With a wide range of subjects including gender-based assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, data-based methods for exhuming forgotten histories, video games, three-dimensional printing, and decolonial work, this book assembles a who's who of the field in more than thirty impactful essays. Contributors: Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Taylor Arnold, U of Richmond; James Baker, U of Sussex; Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State U; David M. Berry, U of Sussex; Claire Bishop, The Graduate Center, CUNY; James Coltrain, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Crunk Feminist Collective; Johanna Drucker, U of California–Los Angeles; Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College; Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City College of Technology–CUNY; M. Beatrice Fazi, U of Sussex; Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College–CUNY; Curtis Fletcher, U of Southern California; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State U; Michael Gavin, U of South Carolina; Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers U; Andrew Gomez, U of Puget Sound; Elyse Graham, Stony Brook U; Brian Greenspan, Carleton U; John Hunter, Bucknell U; Steven J. Jackson, Cornell U; Collin Jennings, Miami U; Lauren Kersey, Saint Louis U; Kari Kraus, U of Maryland; Seth Long, U of Nebraska, Kearney; Laura Mandell, Texas A&M U; Rachel Mann, U of South Carolina; Jason Mittell, Middlebury College; Lincoln A. Mullen, George Mason U; Trevor Muñoz, U of Maryland; Safiya Umoja Noble, U of Southern California; Jack Norton, Normandale Community College; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Élika Ortega, Northeastern U; Marisa Parham, Amherst College; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Kyle Parry, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brad Pasanek, U of Virginia; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Matt Ratto, U of Toronto; Katie Rawson, U of Pennsylvania; Ben Roberts, U of Sussex; David S. Roh, U of Utah; Mark Sample, Davidson College; Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, New York U; Tim Sherratt, U of Canberra; Bobby L. Smiley, Vanderbilt U; Lauren Tilton, U of Richmond; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Ward, Oregon State U; Claire Warwick, Durham U; Alban Webb, U of Sussex; Adrian S. Wisnicki, U of Nebraska–Lincoln. A Dh That Matters / Matthew K. Gold And Lauren F. Klein -- Gender And Cultural Analytics: Finding Or Making Stereotypes? / Laura Mandell -- Toward A Critical Black Digital Humanities / Safiya Umoja Noble -- Can Video Games Be Humanities Scholarship? / James Coltrain And Stephen Ramsay -- They Also Serve: What Dh Might Learn About Controversy And Service From Disciplinary Analogies / Claire Warwick -- No Signal Without Symbol: Decoding The Digital Humanities / David M. Berry, M. Beatrice Fazi, Ben Roberts, And Alban Webb -- Digital Humanities And The Great Project: Why We Should Operationalize Everything--and Study Those Who Are Doing So Now / R. C. Alvarado -- Data First: Remodeling The Digital Humanities Center / Neil Fraistat -- The Dh Bubble: Startup Logic, Sustainability, And Performativity / David S. Roh -- The Scandal Of Digital Humanities / Brian Greenspan -- Digital Humanities As A Semi-normal Thing / Ted Underwood -- Sample:signal:strobe: Haunting, Social Media, And Black Digitality / Marisa Parham -- Unremembering The Forgotten / Tim Sherratt -- Reading For Enactment: A Performative Approach To Digital Scholarship And Data Visualization / Kyle Parry -- The Care Of Enchanted Things / Kari Kraus -- Zonas De Contacto: A Digital Humanities Ecology Of Knowledges / Élika Ortega -- The Digital Humanities And Critical Theory: An Institutional Cautionary Tale / John Hunter -- The Elusive Digital/critical Synthesis / Seth Long And James Baker -- The Archive After Theory / Megan Ward With Adrian S. Wisnicki -- Teaching Quantitative Methods: What Makes It Hard (in Literary Studies) / Andrew Goldstone -- Videographic Criticism As A Digital Humanities Method / Jason Mittell -- Spaces Of Meaning: Conceptual History, Vector Semantics, And Close Reading / Michael Gavin, Collin Jennings, Lauren Kersey, And Brad Pasanek -- Paid To Do But Not To Think: Reevaluating The Role Of Graduate Student Collaborators / Rachel Mann -- Against Cleaning / Katie Rawson And Trevor Muñoz -- New Data? The Role Of Statistics In Dh / Taylor Arnold And Lauren Tilton -- Making Time: Workflow And Learning Outcomes In Dh Assignments / David Jack Norton -- Not Just Guns But Bullets, Too: Deconstructive And Constructive Making Within The Digital Humanities / Matt Ratto -- A Conversation On Digital Art History / Johanna Drucker And Claire Bishop -- Volumetric Cinema / Kevin L. Ferguson -- Joyce And The Graveyard Of Digital Empires / Elyse Graham -- Educational Technology And The Humanities: A History Of Control / Curtis Fletcher -- A Braided Narrative For Digital History / Lincoln Mullen -- Are Para-academic Career Paths About People Or Places? Reflections On Infrastructure As The European Alt-ac / Jennifer Edmond -- The Making Of The Digital Working Class: Social History, Digital Humanities, And Its Sources / Andrew Gomez -- Mixed Methodological Digital Humanities / Moacir P. De Sá Pereira -- From Humanities To Scholarship: Librarians, Labor, And The Digital / Bobby L. Smiley -- Forum Introduction / Lauren F. Klein And Matthew K. Gold -- Capacity Through Care / Bethany Nowviskie -- Material Care / Steven J. Jackson -- Caring Archives Of Subalternity? / Radhika Gajjala -- A Pedagogical Search For Home And Care / Marta Effinger-crichlow -- Dh Adjuncts: Social Justice And Care / Kathi Inman Berens -- Self-care Is Crunk / The Crunk Feminist Collectiive -- The Black Box And Speculative Care / Mark Semple -- A Care Worthy Of Its Time / Jussi Parikka. Matthew K. Gold And Lauren F. Klein, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents INTRODUCTION: A DH That Matters PART I: Possibilities and Constraints 1 Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes? 2 Toward a Critical Black Digital Humanities 3 Can Video Games Be Humanities Scholarship? 4 “They Also Serve”: What DH Might Learn about Controversyand Service from Disciplinary Analogies 5 No Signal without Symbol: Decoding the Digital Humanities Blog Posts and Short Essays 6 Digital Humanities and the Great Project: Why We Should Operationalize Everything—and Study Those Who Are Doing So Now 7 Data First: Remodeling the Digital Humanities Center 8 The DH Bubble: Startup Logic, Sustainability, and Performativity 9 The Scandal of Digital Humanities 10 Digital Humanities as a Semi-Normal Thing PART II: Theories and Approaches 11 Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and Black Digitality 12 Unremembering the Forgotten 13 Reading for Enactment: A Performative Approach to Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization 14 The Care of Enchanted Things BLOG POSTS AND SHORT ESSAYS 15 Zonas de Contacto: A Digital Humanities Ecology of Knowledges 16 The Digital Humanities and “Critical Theory”: An Institutional Cautionary Tale 17 The Elusive Digital / Critical Synthesis 18 The Archive after Theory PART: III Methods and Practices 19 Teaching Quantitative Methods: What Makes It Hard (in Literary Studies) 20 Videographic Criticism as a Digital Humanities Method 21 Spaces of Meaning: Conceptual History, Vector Semantics, and Close Reading 22 Paid to Do but Not to Think: Reevaluating the Role of Graduate Student Collaborators Blog Posts and Short Essays 23 Against Cleaning 24 New Data? The Role of Statistics in DH 25 Making Time: Workflow and Learning Outcomes in DH Assignments 26 Not Just Guns but Bullets, Too: “Deconstructive” and “Constructive”Making within the Digital Humanities PART IV: Disciplines and Institutions 27 A Conversation on Digital Art History 28 Volumetric Cinema 29 Joyce and the Graveyard of Digital Empires 30 Educational Technology and the Humanities: A History of Contro Blog Posts and Short Essays 31 A Braided Narrative for Digital History 32 Are Para-Academic Career Paths about People or Places? Reflections on Infrastructure as the European Alt-ac 33 The Making of the Digital Working Class: Social History, Digital Humanities, and Its Sources 34 Mixed Methodological Digital Humanities 35 From Humanities to Scholarship: Librarians, Labor, and the Digital PART V: Forum: Ethics, Theories, and Practices of Care 36 Forum Introduction 37 Capacity through Care 38 Material Care 39 Caring Archives of Subalternity? 40 A Pedagogical Search for Home and Care 41 DH Adjuncts: Social Justice and Care 42 Self-Care Is Crunk 43 The Black Box and Speculative Care 44 A Care Worthy of Its Time ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTRIBUTORS