Advancing Digital Humanities (PDF)

Paul Longley Arthur, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Katherine Bode, Australian National University, Australia
Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Mark Byron, University of Sydney, Australia
Mark Coté, King's College London, UK
Øyvind Eide, University of Passau, Germany
Jack Elliott, University of Newcastle, Australia
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University, USA
Tim Highfield Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Willard McCarty, King's College London, UK
Richard Maltby, Flinders University, Australia
Christopher Moore, University of Wollongong, Australia
Tara Murphy, University of Sydney, Australia
Peter Robinson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Ned Rossiter, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Sydney J. Shep, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Tomoji Tabata, University of Osaka, Japan
Paul Turnbull, University of Tasmania, Australia
Deb Verhoeven, Deakin University, Australia
Dylan Walker, Flinders University, Australia
Mike Walsh, University in Adelaide, Australia

'Advancing Digital Humanities is essential reading for those considering the future of our interdiscipline." - Professor Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, University of Victoria, BC, Canada

'Defining Digital Humanities by what it does rather than wrestling with definitions of what it is, the essays in this vibrant anthology are reports of substantive engagements with the intellectual dimensions of technological tools. Each project in this collection starts from research in a core humanities discipline literature, history, cultural studies and extends its questions of style, authorship, influence, production and reception practices through digital means. An excellent volume for those new to the field as well as insiders, each of whom will take away something of value from the carefully crafted insights of these essays.' - Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, Information Studies, UCLA, USA

'This collection of essays is an essential travel guide for anyone who wishes to venture into the varied, complex and challenging intellectual terrain of the digital humanities. The volume moves discussion of digital humanities beyond arid debates about the definition of the field and illustrates the wider theoretical and cultural vistas that the digital humanities are opening up. This compelling collection of thought-provoking essays vividly illustrates how humanities scholars are using digital methods to refashion our cultural understanding and transform representations of knowledge across subjects ranging from Dickens to the Twittersphere. The contributors include not only some of the most distinguished international scholars in the field, but also young researchers engaged in innovative experimentation at the digital coalface, and their energy, diversity and intellectual ambition make this volume a captivating read. Advancing Digital Humanities is a fundamental and unmissable contribution to the intellectual and