A New Companion to Digital Humanities - 9781118680643

A New Companion To Digital Humanities

"Offers the best general introduction to this amorphous field."

Literary Research Guide (praise for A Companion to Digital Humanities)

"Expertly edited by the same outstanding team that made the first Companion a standard reference work, the New Companion shows how far this viral and still-emerging field has come in the last seven years. Anyone interested in a report from the field by the foremost practitioners in digital humanities should turn to this Volume, whose authors comprise a veritable who's who of digital humanities."

Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles

Revised and updated to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the evaluation and publication of digital scholarship, A New Companion to Digital Humanities offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this dynamic and burgeoning field.

The volume brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities. In five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities, it includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization, 'fit is highly anticipated revision of a respected collection oilers an authoritative survey of the past, present, and future of the field, and will be an essential tool for anyone interested in better understanding this rapidly evolving discipline.