Index
Contents
Introduction
A DH Matters | Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein ix
Part I.
Possibilities and Constraints
1. Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or
Making Stereotypes? | Laura Mandell 3
2. Toward a Critical Black Digital Humanities | Safiya Umoja Noble 27
3 Can Video Games Be Humanities Scholarship? | James Coltrain
and Stephen Ramsay 36
4. “They Also Serve”: What DH Might Learn about Controversy
and Service from Disciplinary Analogies | Claire Warwick 46
5. No Signal without Symbol: Decoding
the Digital Humanities | David M. Berry, M. Beatrice Fazi, Ben Roberts,
and Alban Webb 61
6. Digital Humanities and the Great Project: Why We Should
Operationalize Everything—and Study Those Who Are
Doing So Now | R. C. Alvarado 75
7. Data First: Remodeling the Digital Humanities
Center | Neil Fraistat 83
8. The DH Bubble: Startup Logic, Sustainability, and
Performativity | David S. Roh 86
9. The Scandal of Digital Humanities | Brian Greenspan 92
10. Digital Humanities as a Semi-Normal Thing | Ted Underwood 96
Part II.
Theories and Approaches
11. Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and
Black Digitality | Marisa Parham 101
12. Unremembering the Forgotten | Tim Sherratt 123
13. Reading for Enactment: A Performative Approach to
Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization | Kyle Parry 141
14. The Care of Enchanted Things | Kari Kraus 161
Blog Posts and Short Essays
15. Zonas de Contacto: A Digital Humanities Ecology of
Knowledges | Élika Ortega 179
16. The Digital Humanities and “Critical Theory”: An Institutional
Cautionary Tale | John Hunter 188
17. The Elusive Digital / Critical Synthesis | Seth Long and
James Baker 195
18. The Archive after Theory | Megan Ward with Adrian S. Wisnicki 200
Part III.
Methods and Practices
19. Teaching Quantitative Methods: What Makes It Hard
(in Literary Studies) | Andrew Goldstone 209
20. Videographic Criticism as a Digital Humanities
Method | Jason Mittell 224
21. Spaces of Meaning: Conceptual History, Vector Semantics,
and Close Reading | Michael Gavin, Collin Jennings,
Lauren Kersey, and Brad Pasanek 243
22. Paid to Do but Not to Think: Reevaluating the Role of Graduate
Student Collaborators | Rachel Mann 268
23. Against Cleaning | Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz 279
24. New Data? The Role of Statistics in DH | Taylor Arnold and
Lauren Tilton 293
25. Making Time: Workflow and Learning Outcomes in DH
Assignments | David “Jack” Norton 300
26. Not Just Guns but Bullets, Too: “Deconstructive” and “Constructive”
Making within the Digital Humanities | Matt Ratto 307
Part IV. Disciplines and Institutions
27. A Conversation on Digital Art History | Johanna Drucker and
Claire Bishop 321
28. Volumetric Cinema | Kevin L. Ferguson 335
29. Joyce and the Graveyard of Digital Empires | Elyse Graham 350
30. Educational Technology and the Humanities: A History of
Control | Curtis Fletcher 369
Blog Posts and Short Essays
31. A Braided Narrative for Digital History | Lincoln Mullen 382
32. Are Para-Academic Career Paths about People or Places?
Reflections on Infrastructure as the European
Alt-ac | Jennifer Edmond 389
33. The Making of the Digital Working Class: Social History,
Digital Humanities, and Its Sources | Andrew Gomez 399
34. Mixed Methodological Digital Humanities |
Moacir P. de Sá Pereira 405
35. From Humanities to Scholarship: Librarians, Labor, and
the Digital | Bobby L. Smiley 413
Part V. Forum: Ethics, Theories, and Practices of Care
36. Forum Introduction | Lauren F. Klein and Matthew K. Gold 423
37. Capacity through Care | Bethany Nowviskie 424
38. Material Care | Steven J. Jackson 427
39. Caring Archives of Subalternity? | Radhika Gajjala 431
40. A Pedagogical Search for Home and Care |
Marta Effinger-Crichlow 434
41. DH Adjuncts: Social Justice and Care | Kathi Inman Berens 437
42. Self-Care Is Crunk | The Crunk Feminist Collective 442
43. The Black Box and Speculative Care | Mark Sample 445
44. A Care Worthy of Its Time | Jussi Parikka 449
Acknowledgments 453
Contributors 455
