Digital_humanities - 9780262018470

Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on thestate of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What isdigital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. Thiscollaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniquesunfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry--including geospatial analysis, data mining,corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation--to show their relevance for contemporaryculture.

Included are chapters on the basics, on emerging methods and genres, andon the social life of the digital humanities, along with "case studies,""provocations," and "advisories." These persuasively crafted interventions offera descriptive toolkit for anyone involved in the design, production, oversight, and review ofdigital projects. The authors argue that the digital humanities offers a revitalization of theliberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of thetwenty-first century.Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embodythe intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is avision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding theshape of new scholarship.