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Summary

This book is a collection of previously published canonical articles by top DH scholars discussing the definition, nature, and scope of humanities computing and digital humanities.

It is comprised of five sections: Humanities Computing, Digital Humanities, From the Blogosphere, Voices from the Community, and Further Reading.

Useful Content

• Everything! Each article within this book deserves its own review.

Table of Contents

1. Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?
2. What is Humanities Computing and What Is not?
3. Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities
4. Disciplined: Using Educations Studies to Analyse 'Humanities Computing'
5. Tree, Turf, Centre, Archipelago - or Wild Acre? Metaphors and Stories for Humanities Computing
6. The Gates of Hell: History and Definition of Digital - Humanities - Computing
7. Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities
8. Something Called Digital Humanities
9. What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?
10. The Productive Unease of 21st-century Digital Scholarship
11. Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Digital Humanities
12. Digital Humanities is a Spectrum, or "We;re All Digital Humanists Now"
13. Who's In and Who's Out
14. On Building
15. Inclusion in the Digital Humanities
16. The Digital Humanities is not about Building, it's about Sharing
17. I'm Chris, Where Am I Wrong?
18. Peering Inside the Big Tent
19. ADHO, On Love and Money
20. Selected Definitions from the Day of Digital Humanities: 2009-2012
21. Digital Humanities Definitions by Type
22. Selected Further Reading
23. Questions for Discussion

Review

• This book is a must-read for those interested in DH.
• A great way to acquaint oneself with the leaders in DH.