Between Humanities and the Digital (Paperback)

Contributors ix
 Acknowledgments xiii
 Introduction 1
 I THE FIELD OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES 9
 1 The Example: Some Historical Considerations 17
 Jonathan Sterne
 2 Humanities in the Digital Age 35
 Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III
 3 Me? A Digital Humanist? 41
 Chandra Mukerji
 4 Critical Theory and the Mangle of Digital Humanities 55
 Todd Presner
 5 “ Does This Technology Serve Human Purposes? ” A “ Necessary Conversation ” with Sherry Turkle 69
 Henry Jenkins
 6 Humanist Computing at the End of the Individual Voice and the Authoritative Text 83
 Johanna Drucker
7 Beyond Infrastructure: Re-humanizing Digital Humanities in India 95
 Nishant Shah
 8 Toward a Transnational Asian/American Digital Humanities: A #transformDH Invitation 109
 Anne Cong-Huyen
 9 Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground 121
 Ian Bogost
 10 Why Yack Needs Hack (and Vice versa): From Digital Humanities to Digital Literacy 131
 Cathy N. Davidson
 11 Toward Problem-Based Modeling in the Digital Humanities 145
 Ray Siemens and Jentery Sayers
 12 Deprovincializing Digital Humanities 163
 David Theo Goldberg
 II INFLECTING FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES 173
 13 Circuit-Bending History: Sketches toward a Digital Schematic 181
 Whitney Anne Trettien
 14 Medieval Materiality through the Digital Lens 193
 Cecilia Lindh é
 15 Computational Literature 205
 Nick Montfort
 16 The Cut between Us: Digital Remix and the Expression of Self 217
 Jenna Ng
 17 Locating the Mobile and Social: A Preliminary Discussion of Camera Phones and Locative Media 229
 Larissa Hjorth
18 “ Did You Mean ‘ Why Are Women Cranky? ’ ” Google — A Means of Inscription, a Means of De-Inscription? 243
 Jennie Olofsson
 19 Time Wars of the Twentieth Century and the Twenty-first Century Toolkit: The History and Politics of Longue-duree Thinking as a Prelude to the Digital Analysis of the Past 253
 Jo Guldi
 20 An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities: Envisioning Globalities 500 – 1500 CE 267
 Geraldine Heng and Michael Widner
 21 Digital Humanities and the Study of Religion 283
 Tim Hutchings
 22 Cyber Archaeology: A Post-virtual Perspective 295
 Maurizio Forte
 23 Literature, Neuroscience, and Digital Humanities 311
 Natalie Phillips and Stephen Rachman
 III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, LEARNING, AND INFRASTRUCTURE 329
 24 The Humanistiscope — Exploring the Situatedness of Humanities Infrastructure 337
 Patrik Svensson
 25 “ Stuff You Can Kick ” : Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures 355
 Lisa Parks
 26 Distant Mirrors and the LAMP 375
 Matthew Kirschenbaum
 27 Resistance in the Materials 383
 Bethany Nowviskie
28 The Digital Humanities as a Laboratory 391
 Amy E. Earhart
 29 A Map Is Not a Picture: How the Digital World Threatens the Validity of Printed Maps 401
 Patricia Seed
 30 Spatial History as Scholarly Practice 411
 Zephyr Frank
 31 Utopian Pedagogies: Teaching from the Margins of the Digital Humanities 429
 Elizabeth Losh
 32 The Face and the Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice 441
 Jennifer Gonz á lez
 33 Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age 457
 Kathleen Fitzpatrick
 34 Critical Transmission 467
 Mats Dahlstr ö m
 35 Post-Archive: The Humanities, the Archive, and the Database 483
 Tara McPherson
 36 Final Commentary: A Provocation 503
 N. Katherine Hayles
 References 507
 Index 565