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Research Methods for the Digital Humanities

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Editors:
  1. lewis levenberg

    1. Levenberg Services, Inc., Bloomingburg, USA

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  2. Tai Neilson

    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  3. David Rheams

    1. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

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  • Introduces student readers to methods that are being developed and used by digital humanities scholars around the world
  • Each chapter provides a step-by-step guide to cutting-edge methodologies so that students can make informed decisions about the methods they use, consider ethical practices, follow practical procedures, and present their work effectively
  • Takes a very practical approach to the subject, allowing students to get to grips with it quickly and develop their own approaches

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Research Methods for the Digital Humanities

    • Tai Neilson, lewis levenberg, David Rheams
    Pages 1-14

  3. On Interdisciplinary Studies of Physical Information Infrastructure

    • lewis levenberg
    Pages 15-30

  4. Archives for the Dark Web: A Field Guide for Study

    • Robert W. Gehl
    Pages 31-51

  5. MusicDetour: Building a Digital Humanities Archive

    • David Arditi
    Pages 53-61

  6. Creating an Influencer-Relationship Model to Locate Actors in Environmental Communications

    • David Rheams
    Pages 63-83

  7. Digital Humanities for History of Philosophy: A Case Study on Nietzsche

    • Mark Alfano
    Pages 85-101

  8. Researching Online Museums: Digital Methods to Study Virtual Visitors

    • Natalia Grincheva
    Pages 103-128

  9. Smart Phones and Photovoice : Exploring Participant Lives with Photos of the Everyday

    • Erin Brock Carlson, Trinity Overmyer
    Pages 129-150

  10. Digital Media, Conventional Methods: Using Video Interviews to Study the Labor of Digital Journalism

    • Tai Neilson
    Pages 151-171

  11. Building Video Game Adaptations of Dramatic and Literary Texts

    • E. B. Hunter
    Pages 173-194

  12. Virtual Bethel: Preservation of Indianapolis’s Oldest Black Church

    • Zebulun M. Wood, Albert William, Ayoung Yoon, Andrea Copeland
    Pages 195-210

  13. Code/Art Approaches to Data Visualization

    • J. J. Sylvia IV
    Pages 211-231

  14. Research Methods in Recording Oral Tradition: Choosing Between the Evanescence of the Digital or the Senescence of the Analog

    • Nick Thieberger
    Pages 233-241

  15. A Philological Approach to Sound Preservation

    • Federica Bressan
    Pages 243-261

  16. User Interfaces for Creating Digital Research

    • Tarrin Wills
    Pages 263-286

  17. Developing Sustainable Open Heritage Datasets

    • Henriette Roued-Cunliffe
    Pages 287-307

  18. Telling Untold Stories: Digital Textual Recovery Methods

    • Roopika Risam
    Pages 309-318

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 319-325
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About this book

This volume introduces the reader to the wide range of methods that digital humanities employ, and offers a practical guide to the study, interpretation, and presentation of cultural material and practices. In this instance, the editors consider digital humanities to include both the use of computing to understand cultural material in new ways, and the application of theories and methods from the humanities to interpret new technologies. Each chapter provides a step-by-step guide to cutting-edge methodologies so that students can make informed decisions about the methods they use, consider ethical practices, follow practical procedures, and present their work effectively. Readers will develop practical and reflexive understandings of the software and digital devices that they study and use for research, and the book will help new researchers collaborate and contribute to their scholarly communities, and to public discourse. As contemporary humanities work becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, and increasingly permeated by and with digital technologies, this volume helps new researchers navigate an evolving academic environment. Humanities and social sciences students will find this textbook an invaluable resource for assessing and creating digital projects.

Reviews

“This book will help readers to navigate practical applications and to have critical understandings of DH methods. It would be of interest to some DH students and researchers, social scientists, humanists, and computer and data scientists because of its broad scope of projects.” (Huayong Li, DSH Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 34 (3), September, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Levenberg Services, Inc., Bloomingburg, USA

    lewis levenberg

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Tai Neilson

  • The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

    David Rheams

About the editors

lewis levenberg has a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. He manages an information-technology research consultancy in New York.
 
Tai Neilson is a lecturer in Media at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published work in Journalism, Fast Capitalism, and Global Media Journal. 
 
David Rheams has a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. He has been in the software industry for over 15 years leading support and product teams.


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