Digital Humanities: Books & Resources
This guide provides general and specialized information on the theory, tools, methodologies, and communities of practice in the digital humanities.
Last Updated: Feb 23, 2024 4:22 PM
DH Books
A New Companion to Digital Humanities by
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
ISBN: 9781118680643Publication Date: 2016-01-26
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 by
The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether Contending with recent developments like the shocking 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the radical transformation of the social web, and passionate debates about the future of data in higher education, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 brings together a broad array of important, thought-provoking perspectives on the field's many sides. With a wide range of subjects including gender-based assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, data-based methods for exhuming forgotten histories, video games, three-dimensional printing, and decolonial work, this book assembles a who's who of the field in more than thirty impactful essays. Contributors: Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Taylor Arnold, U of Richmond; James Baker, U of Sussex; Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State U; David M. Berry, U of Sussex; Claire Bishop, The Graduate Center, CUNY; James Coltrain, U of Nebraska-Lincoln; Crunk Feminist Collective; Johanna Drucker, U of California-Los Angeles; Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College; Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City College of Technology-CUNY; M. Beatrice Fazi, U of Sussex; Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College-CUNY; Curtis Fletcher, U of Southern California; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State U; Michael Gavin, U of South Carolina; Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers U; Andrew Gomez, U of Puget Sound; Elyse Graham, Stony Brook U; Brian Greenspan, Carleton U; John Hunter, Bucknell U; Steven J. Jackson, Cornell U; Collin Jennings, Miami U; Lauren Kersey, Saint Louis U; Kari Kraus, U of Maryland; Seth Long, U of Nebraska, Kearney; Laura Mandell, Texas A&M U; Rachel Mann, U of South Carolina; Jason Mittell, Middlebury College; Lincoln A. Mullen, George Mason U; Trevor Muñoz, U of Maryland; Safiya Umoja Noble, U of Southern California; Jack Norton, Normandale Community College; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Élika Ortega, Northeastern U; Marisa Parham, Amherst College; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Kyle Parry, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brad Pasanek, U of Virginia; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska-Lincoln; Matt Ratto, U of Toronto; Katie Rawson, U of Pennsylvania; Ben Roberts, U of Sussex; David S. Roh, U of Utah; Mark Sample, Davidson College; Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, New York U; Tim Sherratt, U of Canberra; Bobby L. Smiley, Vanderbilt U; Lauren Tilton, U of Richmond; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Ward, Oregon State U; Claire Warwick, Durham U; Alban Webb, U of Sussex; Adrian S. Wisnicki, U of Nebraska-Lincoln.
ISBN: 9781517906931Publication Date: 2019-04-30
The Digital Humanities by
The Digital Humanities is a comprehensive introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to conduct research, organize materials, analyze, and publish findings. It summarizes the turn toward the digital that is reinventing every aspect of the humanities among scholars, libraries, publishers, administrators, and the public. Beginning with some definitions and a brief historical survey of the humanities, the book examines how humanists work, what they study, and how humanists and their research have been impacted by the digital and how, in turn, they shape it. It surveys digital humanities tools and their functions, the digital humanists' environments, and the outcomes and reception of their work. The book pays particular attention to both theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations for embarking on digital humanities projects. It places the digital humanities firmly within the historical traditions of the humanities and in the contexts of current academic and scholarly life.
ISBN: 9781107601024Publication Date: 2015-06-25
Exploring Big Historical Data by
The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines, or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up. Authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation into the future. It represents the current state-of-the-art thinking in the field and exemplifies the way that digital work can enhance public engagement in the humanities.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to see the value in digitizing their holdings.The companion website to Exploring Big Historical Data can be found at www.themacroscope.org/. On this site you will find code, a discussion forum, essays, and datafiles that accompany this book.
ISBN: 9781783266371Publication Date: 2015-07-01
Disrupting the Digital Humanities by
All too often, defining a discipline becomes more an exercise of exclusion than inclusion. Disrupting the Digital Humanities seeks to rethink how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many other so-called field-defining collections. What is most beautiful about the work of the Digital Humanities is exactly the fact that it can’t be tidily anthologized. In fact, the desire to neatly define the Digital Humanities (to filter the DH-y from the DH) is a way of excluding the radically diverse work that actually constitutes the field. This collection, then, works to push and prod at the edges of the Digital Humanities — to open the Digital Humanities rather than close it down. Ultimately, it’s exactly the fringes, the outliers, that make the Digital Humanities both lovely and rigorous.
This collection does not constitute yet another reservoir for the new Digital Humanities canon. Rather, our aim is less about assembling content as it is about creating new conversations. Building a truly communal space for the digital humanities requires that we all approach that space with a commitment to: 1) creating open and non-hierarchical dialogues; 2) championing non-traditional work that might not otherwise be recognized through conventional scholarly channels; 3) amplifying marginalized voices; 4) advocating for students and learners; and 5) sharing generously to support the work of our peers.
ISBN: 1947447718Publication Date: 2018-09-21
Professional Forums and Blogs
Communities & Forums
- Digital Humanities Now
- H-Net Digital Humanities Hub
- DH Slack
- AADHUM Online - African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities
- FemTechNet
- HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
- THATCamp - The Humanities and Technology Camp
- ADHO - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
- ILiADS - the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship
Blogs about DH
- Miriam Posner's blog
- Dan Cohen's blog
- Bethany Nowviskie's blog
- Ryan Cordell's blog
- Ian Milligan's blog
- Electric Archaeology (Shawn Graham's blog)
- Cultural Front - A Notebook on Literary Art, Digital Humanities, and Emerging Ideas
Defining the Digital Humanities
Matthew Gold and Lauren F. Klein, eds. Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
- This text provides a valuable introduction to the digital humanities and is freely available online. The following chapters are a good starting point.
- Matthew K. Gold, "The Digital Humanities Moment"
- Matthew Kirschenbaum, "What is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?"
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, "The Humanities, Done Digitally"
A 2016 volume (free online) and 2019 volume (free online) in this series have also been published.
Tutorials & Intro Courses
Intro to Digital Humanities - DH 101
Joannna Drucker, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
This resource was created in 2013 and is based on an Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH101) course taught in past by Drucker and David Kim. It is designed to be applicable to many disciplines. The course is divided into Concepts & Readings, Tutorials (focused on tools), Student Projects, and Advanced Topics. The Student Projects section is particularly useful for instructors planning DH courses with group projects.
Doing Digital Scholarship
Social Sciences Research Council
Created by the Social Sciences Research Council, this "self-guided introduction to digital scholarship, designed for digital novices” offers 11 modules covering a wide range of topics like Annotating Digital Collections and Mapping and Spatial Analysis. Valuable modules that are not always included in tool or method-focused resources include Building a Professional Identity Online, Digitally Inflected Pedagogy, and Trends in Scholarly Communications. Each module includes readings, resources, and a project lens.
The Programming Historian
If you’re new to the digital humanities, don’t let the name of the site intimidate you! You can learn programming here, but this is a “novice-friendly” site that offers a range of easy-to-understand tutorials on mapping, digital publishing, and more. You can sort the lessons by difficulty, topic, and function.
Digital Humanities was created by UB Libraries' 2018-2020 CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, Heidi Dodson. It is currently maintained by Stacy Snyder. Guide content is licensed CC BY 4.0.
