Advancing Digital Humanities Research, Methods, Theories

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. Contributions 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.

Katherine Bode is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Textual Studies at the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University, Australia. Her most recent monograph, Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (2012), explores the critical potential of quantitative book historical and bibliographical methods for literary history.

 
Paul Longley Arthur is Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He was previously Deputy Director, ANU Centre for European Studies, a joint initiative of the European Commission and Australian National University. From 2010 to 2013, he was Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography, ANU, and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

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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 Coté
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