Research Methods for the Digital Humanities

Description

This volume introduces the reader to the wide range of methods that digital humanities employ, and offers a practical guide to the study, interpretation, and presentation of cultural material and practices. In this instance, the editors consider digital humanities to include both the use of computing to understand cultural material in new ways, and the application of theories and methods from the humanities to interpret new technologies. Each chapter provides a step-by-step guide to cutting-edge methodologies so that students can make informed decisions about the methods they use, consider ethical practices, follow practical procedures, and present their work effectively. Readers will develop practical and reflexive understandings of the software and digital devices that they study and use for research, and the book will help new researchers collaborate and contribute to their scholarly communities, and to public discourse. As contemporary humanities work becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, and increasingly permeated by and with digital technologies, this volume helps new researchers navigate an evolving academic environment. Humanities and social sciences students will find this textbook an invaluable resource for assessing and creating digital projects. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Research Methods for the Digital Humanities (Tai Neilson, lewis levenberg, David Rheams)....Pages 1-14 On Interdisciplinary Studies of Physical Information Infrastructure (lewis levenberg)....Pages 15-30 Archives for the Dark Web: A Field Guide for Study (Robert W. Gehl)....Pages 31-51 MusicDetour: Building a Digital Humanities Archive (David Arditi)....Pages 53-61 Creating an Influencer-Relationship Model to Locate Actors in Environmental Communications (David Rheams)....Pages 63-83 Digital Humanities for History of Philosophy: A Case Study on Nietzsche (Mark Alfano)....Pages 85-101 Researching Online Museums: Digital Methods to Study Virtual Visitors (Natalia Grincheva)....Pages 103-128 Smart Phones and Photovoice: Exploring Participant Lives with Photos of the Everyday (Erin Brock Carlson, Trinity Overmyer)....Pages 129-150 Digital Media, Conventional Methods: Using Video Interviews to Study the Labor of Digital Journalism (Tai Neilson)....Pages 151-171 Building Video Game Adaptations of Dramatic and Literary Texts (E. B. Hunter)....Pages 173-194 Virtual Bethel: Preservation of Indianapolis’s Oldest Black Church (Zebulun M. Wood, Albert William, Ayoung Yoon, Andrea Copeland)....Pages 195-210 Code/Art Approaches to Data Visualization (J. J. Sylvia IV)....Pages 211-231 Research Methods in Recording Oral Tradition: Choosing Between the Evanescence of the Digital or the Senescence of the Analog (Nick Thieberger)....Pages 233-241 A Philological Approach to Sound Preservation (Federica Bressan)....Pages 243-261 User Interfaces for Creating Digital Research (Tarrin Wills)....Pages 263-286 Developing Sustainable Open Heritage Datasets (Henriette Roued-Cunliffe)....Pages 287-307 Telling Untold Stories: Digital Textual Recovery Methods (Roopika Risam)....Pages 309-318 Back Matter ....Pages 319-325