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Advancing digital humanities : research, methods, theories / edited by Paul Longley Arthur (University of Western Sydney, Australia), Katherine Bode (Australian National University, Australia).

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Physical Description
xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Arthur, Paul Longley and Bode, Katherine
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Contents
1. Collecting Ourselves / Katherine Bode and Paul Longley Arthur -- PART I. TRANSFORMING DISCIPLINES -- 2. Exercises in Battology / Mark Byron -- 3. Stylometry of Dickens's Language : An Experiment with Random Forests / Tomoji Tabata -- 4. Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance / Jack Elliott -- 5. The Printers' Web / Sydney Shep -- 6. Biographical Dictionaries in the Digital Era / Paul Longley Arthur -- PART II. MEDIA METHODS -- 7. Digital Methods in New Cinema History / Richard Maltby, Dylan Walker and Mike Walsh -- 8. A "Big Data" Approach to Mapping the Australian Twittersphere / Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Tim Highfield -- 9. iResearch : What Do Smart Phones Tell Us about the Digital Human? / Mark Cote -- 10. Screenshots as Virtual Photography : Cybernetics, Remediation, and Affect / Christopher Moore -- PART III. CRITICAL CURATION -- 11. Rethinking Collections / Julia Flanders -- 12. Methods and Canons / Katherine Bode and Tara Murphy -- 13. Reading the Text, Walking the Terrain, Following the Map / Øyvind Eide -- 14. Doing the Sheep Good : Facilitating Engagement in Digital Humanities and Creative Arts Research / Deb Verhoeven -- 15. Materialities of Software / Ned Rossiter -- PART IV. RESEARCH FUTURES -- 16. Digital Humanities : Is Bigger Better? / Peter Robinson -- 17. Digital Humanities, or Digitally Based Humanities Research / Paul Turnbull -- 18. The Big Bang of Online Reading / Alan Liu -- 19. Getting There from Here : Remembering the Future of Digital Humanities / Willard McCarty.
Summary
"Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Sections cover digital methods, critical curation and research futures, with theoretical and practical chapters framed around key areas of activity including modelling collections, data-driven analysis, and thinking through building. These are linked through the concept of 'ambitious generosity, ' a way of working to pursue large-scale research questions while supporting and enabling other research areas and approaches, both within and beyond the academy"--
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ISBN
9781137336996 (hardback)
1137336994 (hardback)
9781137337009 (paperback)
1137337001 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2014
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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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