Journal of Digital Humanities
Vol. 1, No. 2 Spring 2012
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
Audience, Substance, and Style
The Editors
With this second issue, the Journal of Digital Humanities continues to explore and challenge the composition of the academic journal and our field itself.
Articles
An Electric Current of the Imagination: What the Digital Humanities Are and What They Might Become
Andrew Prescott
The Emergence of Literary Diction
Ted Underwood and Jordan Sellers
Transitioning to a Digital World: Art History, its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship
Diane M. Zorich
"A new conjunction of scientist, curator, humanist, and artist is what the digital humanities must strive to achieve. It is the only way of ensuring that we do not lose our souls in a world of data."
Yearly ratio of words that entered English before 1150/ words that entered 1150-1699
"Games will likely never produce the same opportunities for discourse as a book, but then why should they?"
Photo by Caro’s Lines
Special Section
Games and Historical Narratives
Jeremy Antley
Privileging Form Over Content: Analysing Historical Videogames
Adam Chapman
Historical Simulations as Problem Spaces: Criticism and Classroom Use
Jeremiah McCall
Going Beyond the Textual in History
Jeremy Antley
Conversations
Archives in Context and as Context
Kate Theimer
Think Talk Make Do: Power and the Digital Humanities
Miriam Posner
"I believe embedded in the discussion of what constitutes an “archives” is a debate over the importance of authenticity and the preservation of context."
"It’s no longer just about coding and gender; it’s about the kinds of conversations we’re willing to have about uncomfortable questions.”
Video panels of players during gaming
Reviews
QRator at the Grant Museum of Zoology
Mia Ridge
Playing Through the "Art of Video Games" Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Anastasia Salter
ISSN 2165-6673