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1. A Companion to Digital Humanities

   This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. 

   • Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. 
   • Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. 
   • Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. 
   • Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.

     (Source: publisher's website) 

    

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.03.2011 - 10:45

2. New Media in the Academy: Labor and the Production of Knowledge in Scholarly Multimedia

   Despite a general interest in exploring the possibilities of multimedia and web-based research, the humanities profession has been slow to accept digital scholarship as a valid form of intellectual endeavor. Questions about labor, peer-review, and co-authorship often arise in academic departments’ attempts to evaluate digital research in the tenure and promotion process. In this essay, we argue that these tensions stem from a general misunderstanding of the kinds of "work" that goes into producing scholarship in multimedia form. Multimedia work, we suggest, places scholars in an extended network that combines minds, bodies, machines, and institutional practices, and lays bare the fiction that scholars are disembodied intellectuals who labor only with the mind. We argue that while traditional ideas of what "counts" as scholarship continue to privilege content over form, intellectual labor over physical labor, and print over digital media, new media’s functional (and in some cases even biological) difference from old media contributes to a double erasure, for scholars working in multimedia, of both their intellectual contributions and their material labor.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.09.2011 - 08:31

3. Understanding Knowledge Work

   Alan Liu responds to reviews of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information by N. Katherine Hayles and Johanna Drucker, both of whom admire Liu's book but believe that it exaggerates the influence of corporate knowledge work while providing an inadequate response to its destructive ahistoricism. Liu proposes that the digital age needs "new-media platforms of humanistic instruction" to supplement critical and theoretical humanistic approaches to help students understand how the human concerns and impulses that give rise to new media productions relate to knoweldge work.

    

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.10.2011 - 14:38

4. A New Companion to Digital Humanities

   This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. 

   • A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline 
   • Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization 
   • Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities 
   • Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities
   • Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities

     (Source: Publisher's website) 

    

   Alvaro Seica - 01.06.2016 - 11:35