Welcome to the
Journal of Digital Humanities
Vol. 1, No. 1 Winter 2011
The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter.
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Introduction
A Community-Sourced Journal
The Editors
We’re pleased to present the inaugural issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities, which represents the best of the work that was posted online by the community of digital humanities scholars and practitioners in the final three months of 2011. We wish to underline this notion of community. Indeed, this new journal is predicated on […]
Getting Started in Digital Humanities
Lisa Spiro
When I presented at the Great Lakes College Association’s New Directions workshop on digital humanities (DH) in October, I tried to answer the question “Why digital humanities?”
Articles
Academic History Writing and its Disconnects
Tim Hitchcock
Defining Data for Humanists: Text, Artifact, Information or Evidence?
Trevor Owens
Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II
Scott B. Weingart
Clustering with Compression for the Historian
Chad Black
Spatializing Photographic Archives
Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser
"Humanities in a Digital Age" Symposium Podcasts
Jeremy Boggs, Alison Booth, Daniel J. Cohen, Mitchell S. Green, Anne Houston and Stephen Ramsay
Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums
Nik Honeysett and Michael Edson
Critical Discourse in Digital Humanities
Fred Gibbs
"Modern humanities scholarship is a direct engagement with a deracinated, Google-ised, Wikipedia-ised, electronic text."
An ego network from wikipedia.org
"The debates around the role of 'theory' in digital humanities are debates about the relationship between saying and doing."
"The Real Faces of White Australia"
Conversations
Introduction: Theory and the Virtues of Digital Humanities
Natalia Cecire
When Digital Humanities Was in Vogue
Natalia Cecire
Theory First
Benjamin M. Schmidt
What We Think We Will Build and What We Build in Digital Humanities
William G. Thomas
Who You Calling Untheoretical?
Jean Bauer
Theory, Digital Humanities, and Noticing
Patrick Murray-John
Digital Humanities as Thunderdome
Elijah Meeks
Words and Code
Tom Scheinfeldt and Ryan Shaw
Please Write it Down: Design and Research in Digital Humanities
Trevor Owens
Building and Sharing (When You’re Supposed to be Teaching)
Mark Sample
Marked Bodies, Transformative Scholarship, and the Question of Theory in Digital Humanities
Alexis Lothian
Where Are the Philosophers? Thoughts from THATCamp Pedagogy
Peter Bradley
It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People
Tim Sherratt
All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave
Moya Z. Bailey
Reviews
Review of WordSeer, produced by Aditi Muralidharan, Marti Hearst, and Bryan Wagner
Amy Earhart
Review of Bookworm, produced by Benjamin Schmidt, Martin Camacho, et al.
Boone B. Gorges
Review of QueryPic, produced by Tim Sherratt
Jeremy Boggs, David McClure, Eric Rochester and Wayne Graham
Newspaper strip visualization
ISSN 2165-6673