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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462978003321

Titolo

Defining digital humanities : a reader / / edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey : , : Ashgate, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-317-15358-8

1-317-15357-X

1-4094-6965-4

1-4094-6962-X

1-78402-935-1

1-4094-6964-6

Edizione

[[Enhanced Credo edition]]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TerrasMelissa M

NyhanJulianne

VanhoutteEdward

Disciplina

001.30285

Soggetti

Humanities - Data processing

Humanities - Research - Data processing

Information storage and retrieval systems - Humanities

Humanities - Electronic information resources

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Is humanities computing an academic discipline? / Geoffrey Rockwell -- What is humanities computing and what is not? / John Unsworth -- Information technology and the troubled humanities / Jerome McGann -- Disciplined : using educational studies to analyse "humanities computing" / Melissa Terras -- Tree, turf, centre, archipelago, or, Wild acre? : metaphors and stories for humanities computing / Willard McCarty -- The history and definition of digital humanities computing / Edward Vanhoutte -- Humanities computing as digital humanities / Patrick Svensson -- Something called digital humanities / Wendell Piez -- What is digital humanities and what's it doing in English



departments? / Matthew Kirschenbaum -- The productive unease of 21st century digital scholarship / Julia Flanders -- Towards a conceptual framework for the digital humanities / Paul Rosenbloom -- Digital humanities is a spectrum, or, We're all digital humanists now / Lincoln Mullen -- Who's in and who's out / Stephen Ramsay -- On building / Stephen Ramsay -- Inclusion in the digital humanities / Geoffrey Rockwell -- The digital humanities is not about building, it's about sharing / Mark Sample -- I'm Chris where am I wrong / Chris Forster -- Peering inside the big tent / Melissa Terras -- ADHO, on love and money / Bethany Nowviskie -- Selected definitions from the day of digital humanities -- Digital humanities definitions by type / Fred Gibbs.

Sommario/riassunto

This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. Chapters provide a historical overview of how the term 'Humanities Computing' developed into the term 'Digital Humanities', and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field.