TY - JOUR TI - As Luck Would Have It AU - Verhoeven, Deb T2 - Feminist Media Histories AB - This essay explores the ways in which new developments in digital research infrastructure change our expectations of archival research and offer opportunities for a newly energized feminist approach to the archive. A specific platform, the Humanities Networked Infrastructure, is explored as an example of how digital technologies enable the coproduction of the archive and at the same time extend the possibilities for serendipitous discovery. DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 7 EP - 28 LA - en Y2 - 2016/02/09/T15:34:25Z ER -

TY - BOOK TI - A New Companion to Digital Humanities AU - Schreibman, Susan AU - Siemens, Ray AU - Unsworth, John AB - 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 CY - Chichester DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 DP - Amazon SP - 608 LA - English PB - Wiley-Blackwell SN - 978-1-118-68064-3 ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations A3 - Rosenberger, Robert A3 - Verbeek, Peter-Paul AB - Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to technologies. These studies provide deep descriptions of the ways technologies transform our abilities, augment our experience, and shape the world around us. This book proceeds with a preface by Don Ihde, postphenomenology’s founder, and a detailed review of the main ideas of this perspective by the editors Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek. The body of this volume is composed of twelve postphenomenological essays which reflect the expansive range, detail-orientation, and interdisciplinarity of this school of thought. These essays confront a broad assortment of topics, both abstract and concrete. Abstract topics addressed include metaphysics, ethics, methodology, and analysis of the notions of selfhood, skill training, speed, and political activism. Just a few of the concrete topics studied include human-like interactive robots, ethics education, image interpretation in radiology, science fiction tropes, transportation history, wearable computing, and organ donation protocols for brain-dead bodies. The volume concludes with constructive critiques of postphenomenology by Andrew Feenberg, Diane Michelfelder, and Albert Borgmann, all figures whose work is relevant to postphenomenological projects. CY - Lanham DA - 2015/// PY - 2015 SP - 282 PB - Lexington Books ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Defining digital humanities: a reader A3 - Terras, Melissa M. A3 - Nyhan, Julianne A3 - Vanhoutte, Edward AB - Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term ’Digital Humanities’ is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We provide a historical overview of how the term ’Humanities Computing’ developed into the term ’Digital Humanities’, and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline. This text will be required reading for scholars and students who want to discover the history of Digital Humanities through its core writings, and for those who wish to understand the many possibilities that exist when trying to define Digital Humanities. CY - Farnham, Surrey DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 PB - Ashgate Publishing Limited ER -

TY - JOUR TI - An Electric Current of the Imagination: What the Digital Humanities Are and What They Might Become AU - Prescott, Andrew T2 - Journal of Digital Humanities AB - Andrew Prescott's inaugural lecture as Head of the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and an attempt to map out some of the issues he thinks need to be addressed both as a Department and as a discipline. DA - 2012/// PY - 2012 VL - 1 IS - 2 LA - English ST - An Electric Current of the Imagination Y2 - 2012/06/30/T22:21:55Z ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Understanding digital humanities A3 - Berry, David AB - The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts and Humanities are resulting in fresh approaches and methodologies for the study of new and traditional corpora. This 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create innovative means of close and distant reading. This book discusses the implications and applications of 'Digital Humanities' and the questions raised when using algorithmic techniques. Key researchers in the field provide a comprehensive introduction to important debates surrounding issues such as the contrast between narrative versus database, pattern-matching versus hermeneutics, and the statistical paradigm versus the data mining paradigm. Also discussed are the new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities that are raised through modular research teams and new organisational structures, as well as techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way. CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke DA - 2012/// PY - 2012 SP - 318 PB - Palgrave Macmillan ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Debates in the Digital Humanities AU - Gold, Matthew K. AB - Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promises to transform the liberal arts and perhaps the university itself. Indeed, at a time when many academic institutions are facing austerity budgets, digital humanities programs have been able to hire new faculty, establish new centers and initiatives, and attract multimillion-dollar grants. Clearly the digital humanities has reached a significant moment in its brief history. But what sort of moment is it? "Debates in the Digital Humanities" brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. From defining what a digital humanist is and determining whether the field has (or needs) theoretical grounding, to discussions of coding as scholarship and trends in data-driven research, this cutting-edge volume delineates the current state of the digital humanities and envisions potential futures and challenges. At the same time, several essays aim pointed critiques at the field for its lack of attention to race, gender, class, and sexuality; the inadequate level of diversity among its practitioners; its absence of political commitment; and its preference for research over teaching. Together, the essays in "Debates in the Digital Humanities" which will be published both as a printed book and later as an ongoing, open-access website suggest that the digital humanities is uniquely positioned to contribute to the revival of the humanities and academic life. Contributors: Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Jamie Skye Bianco, U of Pittsburgh; Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center; Daniel J. Cohen, George Mason U; Cathy N. Davidson, Duke U; Rebecca Frost Davis, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Johanna Drucker, U of California, Los Angeles; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Charlie Edwards; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College; Julia Flanders, Brown U; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Paul Fyfe, Florida State U; Michael Gavin, Rice U; David Greetham, CUNY Graduate Center; Jim Groom, U of Mary Washington; Gary Hall, Coventry U, UK; Mills Kelly, George Mason U; Matthew Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland; Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Losh, U of California, San Diego; Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego; Willard McCarty, King s College London; Tara McPherson, U of Southern California; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Trevor Owens, Library of Congress; William Pannapacker, Hope College; Dave Parry, U of Texas at Dallas; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska, Lincoln; Alexander Reid, SUNY at Buffalo; Geoffrey Rockwell, Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts; Mark L. Sample, George Mason U; Tom Scheinfeldt, George Mason U; Kathleen Marie Smith; Lisa Spiro, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Patrik Svensson, Umea U; Luke Waltzer, Baruch College; Matthew Wilkens, U of Notre Dame; George H. Williams, U of South Carolina Upstate; Michael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library." CY - Minneapolis DA - 2012/// PY - 2012 SP - 504 PB - Univ Of Minnesota Press ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Technical Artefacts: Creations of Mind and Matter AU - Kroes, Peter AB - This book presents an attempt to understand the nature of technical artefacts and the way they come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of technical artefacts designed and produced by modern engineering. In spite of their pervasive influence on human thinking and doing, and therefore on the modern human condition, a philosophical analysis of technical artefacts and engineering design is lacking. Among the questions addressed are: How do technical artefacts fit into the furniture of the universe? In what sense are they different from objects from the natural world, or from the social world? What kind of activity is engineering design and what does it mean to say that technical artefacts are the embodiment of a design? Does it make sense to consider technical artefacts to be morally good or bad by themselves because of the way they influence human life? The book advances the thesis that technical artefacts, conceived of as physical constructions with a technical function, have a dual nature; they are hybrid objects combining physical and intentional features. It proposes a theory of technical functions and technical artefact kinds that does justice to this dual nature, analyses engineering design from the dual nature point of view, and argues that technical artefacts, because of their dual nature, have inherent moral significance. CY - Dordrecht DA - 2012/// PY - 2012 PB - Springer ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Entangled : An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things AU - Hodder, Ian AB - A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds: Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture; Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism; Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long–standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time; Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences; Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory CY - Hoboken DA - 2012/// PY - 2012 PB - Wiley ST - Entangled ER -

TY - JOUR TI - Why Historical Distance is not a Problem AU - Bevir, Mark T2 - History and Theory AB - This essay argues that concerns about historical distance arose along with modernist historicism, and they disappear with postfoundationalism. The developmental historicism of the nineteenth century appealed to narrative principles to establish continuity between past and present and to guide selections among facts. In the twentieth century, modernist historicists rejected such principles, thereby raising the specter of historical distance: that is, the distorting effects of the present on accounts of the past, the chasm between facts and narrative. The modernist problem became: how can historians avoid anachronism and develop accurate representations of the past? Instead of using narrative principles to select facts, modernist historicists appealed to atomized facts to validate narratives. However, in the late twentieth century, postmodernists (Frank Ankersmit and Hayden White) argued that there was no way to close the distance between facts and narratives. The postmodern problem became: how should historians conceive of their writing given the ineluctable distance between facts and narratives? Today, postfoundationalism dispels both modernist and postmodernist concerns with historical distance; it implies that all concepts (not just historical ones) fuse fact and theory, and it dissolves issues of conceptual relativism, textual meaning, and re-enactment. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011 DP - Wiley Online Library VL - 50 IS - 4 SP - 24 EP - 37 LA - en ER -

TY - BOOK TI - The philosophy of information AU - Floridi, Luciano AB - Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. Pi is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and sciences, and (2) the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems. This book lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for this new area of research. It does so systematically, by pursuing three goals. Its metatheoretical goal is to describe what the philosophy of information is, its problems, approaches, and methods. Its introductory goal is to help the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to information. Its analytic goal is to answer several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of semantic information. CY - Oxford DA - 2011/// PY - 2011 SP - 405 PB - Oxford University Press ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database AU - Liu, Alan AB - Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today’s society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present—the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. In the essays collected in Local Transcendence, Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism—including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theory—and digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? Local Transcendence includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history. DA - 2008/11/28/ PY - 2008 SP - 361 PB - University Of Chicago Press ER -

TY - JOUR TI - A (Post)Foundational Approach to the Philosophy of Science: Part II AU - Ginev, Dimitri T2 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie AB - This is a sequel to my paper, "Searching for a (Post)Foundational Approach to Philosophy of Science", which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal [Ginev 2001, Journal for General Philosophy of science 32, 27-37]. In the present paper I continue to scrutinize the possibility of a strong hermeneutics of scientific research. My aim is to defend the position of cognitive existentialism that combines the advocacy of science's cognitive specificity and the rejection of any form of essentialism. A special attention will be paid to the notion of the thematizing project of scientific research. DA - 2007/04/01/ PY - 2007 DP - JSTOR VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 57 EP - 74 ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination AU - Kirschenbaum, Matthew AB - In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between "forensic materiality" and "formal materiality," Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyce's Afternoon: A Story, and William Gibson's electronic poem "Agrippa." CY - Cambridge, MA DA - 2007/// PY - 2007 PB - MIT Press ER -

TY - JOUR TI - Rationality, Dialogue, and Critical Inquiry: Toward a Viable Postfoundationalist Stance AU - Healy, Paul T2 - Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy AB - Given the long-standing and deeply rooted intertwinement between reason and phi- losophy, there is a pressing need to reappraise our operative conceptions of rationality and criti- cal inquiry in the wake of the transition from foundationalism to postfoundationalism. for while opening up exciting new vistas, this transition poses perplexing problems regarding how we might go about justifying our knowledge claims without the possibility of recourse to incontrovertible foundations, indubitable starting points, or algorithmic procedures. the challenge is all the more acute given that the turn to language and intersubjectivity that characterises this transition has fostered the proliferation of a diversity of competing and allegedly self-validating worldviews, that render the encounter with difference an indispensable feature of the contemporary epistemologi- cal landscape while reinforcing the threat of relativism and groundlessness. through engaging with the work of Jurgen Habermas, Hans-georg gadamer and Michel foucault, three theorists widely recognized as major contributors to the contemporary debate, the present paper responds to these problems by seeking to delineate the constitutive features of a dialogically-oriented con- ception of rationality and critical inquiry capable of meeting postfoundationalist needs. in the process, it reinforces the advantages of the reading these theorists as complementary rather than as oppositional, as has typically been the case. DA - 2007/// PY - 2007 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 134 EP - 158 ER -

TY - BOOK TI - The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information AU - Liu, Alan AB - Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even the world of higher education. But what perspective can the knowledge of the humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what is the role of information technology as both the servant of the knowledge economy and the medium of a new technological cool? In The Laws of Cool, Alan Liu reflects on these questions as he considers the emergence of new information technologies and their profound influence on the forms and practices of knowledge. CY - Chicago DA - 2004/// PY - 2004 SP - 573 PB - University of Chicago Press ER -

TY - JOUR TI - The Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Problematic, Hypotheses and Research Programme AU - Beck, Ulrich AU - Bonss, Wolfgang AU - Lau, Christoph T2 - Theory, Culture & Society AB - How can one distinguish the concept of second modernity from the concept of postmodernity? Postmodernists are interested in deconstruction without reconstruction, second modernity is about deconstruction and reconstruction. Social sciences need to construct new concepts to understand the world dynamics at the beginning of the 21st century. Modernity has not vanished, we are not post it. Radical social change has always been part of modernity. What is new is that modernity has begun to modernize its own foundations. This is what it means to say modernity has become reflexive. It has become directed at itself. This causes huge new problems both in reality and in theory. There has been a pluralization of the boundaries within and between societies, between society and nature, between Us and Other, between life and death. This pluralization also changes the inherent nature of boundaries. They become not so much boundaries as a variety of attempts to draw of boundaries. Border conflicts become transformed into conflicts over the drawing of boundaries. Where postmodernism simply celebrates this multiplication of boundaries, the theory of second modernity starts with the problem this new reality poses for individual and collective decisions, and with the problem that the continued existence of such decisions poses for theory. Institutions that are capable of such conscious boundary drawing are enabled in a way that those of the first modernity were not. But this process also generates qualitatively new kinds of trouble and crises. To investigate those troubles is to unveil the emergence of the second modernity. DA - 2003/04/01/ PY - 2003 DP - tcs.sagepub.com.ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz VL - 20 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 33 J2 - Theory Culture Society LA - en ER -

TY - JOUR TI - Searching for a (Post)Foundational Approach to Philosophy of Science: Part I AU - Ginev, Dimitri T2 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie AB - This paper represents an attempt to articulate the basic principles of a hermeneutic philosophy of science. Throughout, the author is at pains to show that both (i) overcoming epistemological foundationalism and (ii) insisting on the multiplicity, patchiness, and heterogeneity of the discursive practices of scientific research do not imply a farewell to an analysis of the constitution of science's autonomous cognitive structure. Such an analysis operates in two directions: "continuous weakening" of epistemological foundationalism and "hermeneutic grounding" of a cognitive structure. Carrying out the analysis in both directions leads to a (post)foundational picture of science. The main thrust of the first part of the paper is to outline the tenets of a constitutional analysis of scientific research. This part focuses especially on the notion of "unified narrative structures" which refers to the "effective histories" of the main epistemic types of science. DA - 2001/01/01/ PY - 2001 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 37 ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Philosophy and computing: an introduction AU - Floridi, Luciano AB - Luciano Floridi shows us how the relationship between philosophy and computing provokes a wide range of philosophical questions: is there a philosophy of information? What can be achieved by a classic computer? How can we define complexity? What are the limits of quantam computers? Is the Internet an intellectual space or a polluted environment? What is the paradox in the Strong Artificial Intlligence program? CN - QA76.167 .F56 1999 CY - London; New York DA - 1999/// PY - 1999 DP - ipac.canterbury.ac.nz Library Catalog SP - 242 PB - Routledge ER -

TY - BOOK TI - The Consequences of Modernity AU - Giddens, Anthony AB - In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post–modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of ′high modernity,′ in which prior trends are radicalised rather than undermined. A post–modern social universe may eventually come into being, but this as yet lies ′on the other side′ of the forms of social and cultural organization which currently dominate world history. CY - Stanford, CA DA - 1990/// PY - 1990 SP - 186 PB - Stanford University Press ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities AU - Rockwell, Geoffrey AU - Sinclair, Stéfan AB - The image of the scholar as a solitary thinker dates back at least to Descartes' Discourse on Method. But scholarly practices in the humanities are changing as older forms of communal inquiry are combined with modern research methods enabled by the Internet, accessible computing, data availability, and new media. Hermeneutica introduces text analysis using computer-assisted interpretive practices. It offers theoretical chapters about text analysis, presents a set of analytical tools (called Voyant) that instantiate the theory, and provides example essays that illustrate the use of these tools. Voyant allows users to integrate interpretation into texts by creating hermeneutica -- small embeddable "toys" that can be woven into essays published online or into such online writing environments as blogs or wikis. The book's companion website, Hermeneutic.ca, offers the example essays with both text and embedded interactive panels. The panels show results and allow readers to experiment with the toys themselves.The use of these analytical tools results in a hybrid essay: an interpretive work embedded with hermeneutical toys that can be explored for technique. The hermeneutica draw on and develop such common interactive analytics as word clouds and complex data journalism interactives. Embedded in scholarly texts, they create a more engaging argument. Moving between tool and text becomes another thread in a dynamic dialogue. CY - Cambridge, MA DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 SP - 256 LA - English PB - The MIT Press ST - Hermeneutica ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories AU - Arthur, Paul AU - Bode, Katherine AB - Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast-growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings, and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Contributions cover digital methods, critical curation, and research futures, with theoretical and practical chapters framed around key areas of activity, including modelling collections, data-driven analysis, and thinking through building. These are linked through the concept of 'ambitious generosity', a way of working to pursue large-scale research questions while supporting and enabling other research areas and approaches, both within and beyond the academy. CY - Basingstoke DA - 2014/// PY - 2014 DP - Google Books SP - 352 PB - Palgrave Macmillan ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities A3 - Scheinfeldt, Tom A3 - Cohen, Daniel J. AB - On May 21, 2010, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt posted the following provocative questions online: “Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society?” As recently as the mid-2000s, questions like these would have been unthinkable. But today serious scholars are asking whether the institutions of the academy as they have existed for decades, even centuries, aren’t becoming obsolete. Every aspect of scholarly infrastructure is being questioned, and even more importantly, being hacked. Sympathetic scholars of traditionally disparate disciplines are canceling their association memberships and building their own networks on Facebook and Twitter. Journals are being compiled automatically from self-published blog posts. Newly minted PhDs are forgoing the tenure track for alternative academic careers that blur the lines between research, teaching, and service. Graduate students are looking beyond the categories of the traditional CV and building expansive professional identities and popular followings through social media. Educational technologists are “punking” established technology vendors by rolling out their own open source infrastructure. Here, in Hacking the Academy, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt have gathered a sampling of the answers to their initial questions from scores of engaged academics who care deeply about higher education. These are the responses from a wide array of scholars, presenting their thoughts and approaches with a vibrant intensity, as they explore and contribute to ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure for a new millennium. CY - Ann Arbor, MI DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 ET - Online PB - University of Michigan Press ST - Hacking the Academy ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Digital Humanities in Practice A3 - Warwick, Claire A3 - Terras, Melissa A3 - Nyhan, Julianne AB - This cutting-edge and comprehensive introduction to digital humanities explains the scope of the discipline and state of the art and provides a wide-ranging insight into emerging topics and avenues of research. Each chapter interweaves the expert commentary of leading academics with analysis of current research and practice, exploring the possibilities and challenges that occur when culture and digital technologies intersect. International case studies of projects ranging from crowdsourced manuscript transcription to computational reconstruction of frescoes are included in each chapter, providing a wealth of information and inspiration. QR codes within each chapter link to a dedicated website where additional content, such as further case studies, is located. DA - 2012/// PY - 2012 SP - 192 PB - Facet Publishing ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism AU - Ramsay, Stephen AB - Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics. Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies: interpretive analysis of written texts. Computers can handle vast amounts of data, allowing for the comparison of texts in ways that were previously too overwhelming for individuals, but they may also assist in enhancing the entirely necessary role of subjectivity in critical interpretation. Reading Machines discusses the importance of this new form of text analysis conducted with the assistance of computers. Ramsay suggests that the rigidity of computation can be enlisted by intuition, subjectivity, and play. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011 DP - Amazon.com SP - 112 PB - University of Illinois Press ST - Reading Machines ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Humanities Computing AU - McCarty, Willard AB - Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice that is of and for as well as in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of the most challenging kind. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer in our intellectual life, and outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars across the humanities can contribute. CY - Basingstoke DA - 2005/// PY - 2005 SP - 311 PB - Palgrave Macmillan SN - 1-4039-3504-1 KW - reverse engineering postindustrialism ER -

TY - BOOK TI - Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History AU - Moretti, Franco AB - In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of “distant reading” into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genres—the epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novel—as well as the literary output of countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain, and Nigeria, he shows how literary history looks significantly different from what is commonly supposed and how the concept of aesthetic form can be radically redefined. CY - New York DA - 2005/// PY - 2005 SP - 119 PB - Verso SN - 1-84467-026-0 ST - Graphs, Maps, Trees ER -

TY - ELEC TI - What's Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities AU - Posner, Miriam T2 - Miriam Posner's Blog AB - This is a lightly edited version of the keynote address I was honored to give at the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference at the University of Pennsylvania on July 22, 2015. DA - 2015/07/27/ PY - 2015 LA - English M3 - Blog UR - http://miriamposner.com/blog/whats-next-the-radical-unrealized-potential-of-digital-humanities/ Y2 - 2015/07/27/T23:36:26Z ER -

TY - ELEC TI - Stuff Digital Humanists Like: Defining Digital Humanities by its Values AU - Scheinfeldt, Tom T2 - Found History AB - [A very rough transcript of my talk at the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative on December 1, 2010. The DHI's theme for this semester's program was "What is Digital Humanities?" This is my attempt to answer—or dodge—that question. Many thanks to Matt Gold and all my friends at CUNY for a great event and a thought-provoking discussion. DA - 2012/12/02/ PY - 2012 M3 - Blog UR - http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/12/02/stuff-digital-humanists-like/ Y2 - 2011/05/12/T08:49:57Z ER -

TY - ELEC TI - Why digital humanities isn’t actually “the next thing in literary studies.” AU - Underwood, Ted T2 - The Stone and the Shell AB - It’s flattering for digital humanists to be interpellated by Stanley Fish as the next thing in literary studies. It’s especially pleasant since the field is old enough now to be tickled... DA - 2011/12/27/ PY - 2011 M3 - Blog UR - http://tedunderwood.com/2011/12/27/why-we-dont-actually-want-to-be-the-next-thing-in-literary-studies/ Y2 - 2012/10/31/T01:02:33Z ER -

TY - RPRT TI - Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities AU - Collins, Sandra AU - Harrower, Natalie AU - Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew AU - Immenhauser, Beat AU - Lauer, Gerhard AU - Orlandi, Tito AU - Romary, Laurent AU - Wandl-Vogt, Eveline T2 - Allea eHumanities Working Group AB - A Position Paper outlining the ALLEA E-Humanities Working Group’s recommendations on the current and emerging landscape and the key innovations and requirements for continued growth and excellence in the Digital Humanities. CY - Berlin DA - 2015/// PY - 2015 PB - All European Academies ER -

TY - RPRT TI - Report of the MLA Task Force on Doctoral Study in Modern Language and Literature AU - MLA AB - Concern about the future of humanistic study motivated the Modern Language Association (MLA) Executive Council to charge a distinguished task force of mem- bers with recommending changes to doctoral education. Funded in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the work of the task force involved con- versations with directors of graduate studies, department chairs, and other adminis- trators; graduate students; employers outside the academy; and the membership at large. rough presentations on individual campuses, at the annual conventions of the MLA and the American Historical Association, and at summer seminars for de- partment chairs, members of the task force re ned their thinking and nalized their recommendations. e Executive Council approved the report of the task force in February 2014. e report includes an appendix of examples of departments that have modi ed their programs in ways consistent with the task force’s recommendations. CY - Web publication DA - 2014/05// PY - 2014 PB - The Modern Language Association of America ER -

TY - RPRT TI - Research Data Management Principles, Practices, and Prospects AU - CLIR AB - The challenge of ensuring long-term preservation of and ac- cess to the outputs of scienti c research, especially data sets produced by publicly funded research projects, has become a prominent topic in the United States. In 2011, the two-year DataRes Project was initiated at the University of North Texas to document perceptions and responses to this emerging challenge in U.S. higher education and to explore ways in which the library and information science (LIS) profession could best respond to the need for be er re- search data management in universities. This chapter will highlight some of the most provocative ndings of the DataRes Project on the topic of research data management in higher education and then consider possible research data management (RDM) scenarios for the future and the implications of these scenarios. CY - Washington, DC DA - 2013/11// PY - 2013 PB - Council on Library and Information Resources ER -

TY - RPRT TI - One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge AU - Williford, Christa AU - Henry, Charles AB - How many lifetimes? This question often arose when the authors of this report pondered the extraordinary scale and complexity of research conducted in the Digging into Data Challenge program. Analyzing and extrapolating pa erns of meaning from tens of thousands of audio les; nearly 200,000 trial transcripts; millions of spoken words, recorded over many years; and hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary texts in ancient languages would, if undertaken using printed resources and analog materials, have required the lifetimes and generations of scholars. Because the resources in question were digital, the time of analysis and discovery was compressed into months, not decades. By choosing to work with very large quantities of digital data and to use the assistance of machines, the Digging into Data Challenge investigators have demarcated a new era — one with the promise of revelatory explorations of our cultural heritage that will lead us to new insights and knowledge, and to a more nuanced and expansive understanding of the human condition. DA - 2012/06// PY - 2012 PB - Council on Library and Information Resources ER -

TY - RPRT TI - "Our Cultural Commonwealth" The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences A2 - Welshons, Marlo AB - The emergence of the Internet has transformed the practice of the humanities and social sciences—more slowly than some may have hoped, but more profoundly than others may have expected. Digital cultural heritage resources are a fundamental dataset for the humanities: these resources, combined with computer networks and software tools, now shape the way that scholars discover and make sense of the human record, while also shaping the way their findings are communicated to students, colleagues, and the general public. Even greater transformations are on the horizon, as digitized cultural heritage comes into its own. But we will not see anything approaching complete digitization of the record of human culture, removal of legal and technical barriers to access, or revolutionary change in the academic reward system unless the individuals, institutions, enterprises, organizations, and agencies who are this generation's stewards of that record make it their business to ensure that these things happen. DA - 2006/// PY - 2006 PB - American Council of Learned Societies ER -