http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Topic: What are the essential DH books on your class reading list? en-US Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:16:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-623 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:51:51 +0000 MelissaTerras 623@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>@James - do have a look at the individual papers also talked about in the "Decoding Digital Humanities" discussion group: <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/decoding_digital_humanities" rel="nofollow">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/decoding_digital_humanities</a></p> <p>@Mats - aw shucks, thanks for the recommendation. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-622 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:02:18 +0000 Mats Dahlstrom 622@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>In addition to those already mentioned, I would add:</p> <p>Burnard, Lou, O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine &amp; Unsworth. John, eds. (2006). Electronic textual editing. New York: MLA/TEI. <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/Preview/index.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/Preview/index.xml</a></p> <p>Shillingsburg, Peter (2006). From Gutenberg to Google: electronic representations of literary texts. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.</p> <p>Sutherland, Kathryn &amp; Deegan, Marilyn (2009). Transferred illusions: Digital technology and the forms of print. London: Ashgate. </p> <p>Terras, Melissa (2008). Digital Images for the Information Professional. London: Ashgate.</p> <p>A promising item to be issued the upcoming year is:<br /> van der Weel, Adriaan (2011). Changing Our Textual Minds: Towards a Digital Order of Knowledge. Manchester UP.</p> <p>An instructive case of library digitisation students can look at is:<br /> National Library of Australia (2010). Collection Digitisation Overview.<br /> Available through <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/digital/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nla.gov.au/digital/index.html</a> </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-621 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:22:18 +0000 James Neal 621@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I am in the process of forming a DH reading group of "essential" and canonical texts for an informal student reading group at the iSchool-UMD/CP. This discussion has been invaluable. Thanks. BTW our group is starting with Matthew Kirschenbaum's "Mechanisms". </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-613 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:28:54 +0000 Aurelien Berra 613@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I definitely would recommend Willard McCarty's stimulating views:<br /> - Willard McCarty, "Humanities Computing", Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.<br /> - Willard McCarty, "Attending from and to the machine", Inaugural Lecture, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, 2010.</p> <p>Classics being a dynamic field in which general DH questions are discussed, I think the following reference could be suggested (even by one the editors of the book?):<br /> - Melissa Terras &amp; Gregory Crane (ed.), "Changing the Center of Gravity. Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure", Piscataway, Gorgias Press, 2010.<br /> Along the same lines, Alison Babeu's CLIR report "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists" will be extremely relevant in its final form. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-453 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:52:01 +0000 katherineharris 453@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @<a href='/profile/melissaterras'>MelissaTerras</a>'s <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-114">post</a>:</em></p> <p>Recently, the DH honors students found Hacking the Academy extremely useful as a very contemporary view about the multiple views within Digital Humanities: <a href="http://hackingtheacademy.org/" rel="nofollow">http://hackingtheacademy.org/</a> </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-424 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:32:26 +0000 Ethan Gruber 424@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I don't teach a class, but if I did it would be on digital tools in archaeology.</p> <p>Frischer, Bernard and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, eds. 2007. <em>Beyond illustration: 2D and 3D technologies as tools for discovery in archaeology</em>. Oxford: Archaeopress. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-411 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:05:18 +0000 MelissaTerras 411@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Crikey, I need to get out my credit card and start exploring some of these - thanks all! </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-153 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:44:35 +0000 ethan.watrall 153@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>For game stuff, I would suggest Koster's <em>A Theory of Fun</em>, Marc Prensky's <em>Digital Game-Based Learning</em> and <em>Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning!</em>, Bogost's <em>Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames</em>, andSalen and Zimmerman's <em>Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals</em>....jut to name a few. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-149 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:26:25 +0000 Vika Zafrin 149@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>One book I don't see mentioned very often, but do recommend, is:</p> <p>Burke, Peter. A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.</p> <p>It is not directly about the digital humanities, but it situates the role of [DH] knowledge work and knowledge dissemination in an important historical context. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-143 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:04:53 +0000 Julie Meloni 143@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Echoing the additions of Ong and Hayles above, here are a few more of my go-to texts (which certainly shows my interpretation of DH):</p> <p>Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. <em>Remediation: Understanding New Media.</em> New York: MIT Press, 1999.</p> <p>Landow, George. <em>Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization.</em> Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003.</p> <p>Manovich, Lev. <em>The Language of New Media.</em> New York: MIT Press, 2001.</p> <p>McGann, Jerome. <em>Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web.</em> New York: Palgrave, 2001.</p> <p>McGann, Jerome. <em>The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World.</em> Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-126 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:36:31 +0000 Meagan Timney 126@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I'd add:</p> <p>N. Katherine Hayles. (2005) "My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts", University of Chicago Press. </p> <p>For a Canadian Twist:<br /> "Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community". Ed. Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. (2006). University of Calgary Press.</p> <p>For something fun:<br /> Levy, David. (2007) "Love + Sex with Robots." HarperCollins. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-125 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:28:49 +0000 Patrick Murray-John 125@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>This clearly reflects my medievalist background, but I'd add at least some of Walter Ong's "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word". It's a core text for the movement from "oral" culture to print culture, but that can make a very useful contrast in our movement from print to digital.</p> <p>Also in the unintuitive category, Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics". It's an amazing introduction to how comic books work, and so gives some key insights into visual media. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-the-essential-dh-books-on-your-class-reading-list#post-114 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:43:13 +0000 MelissaTerras 114@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Hi Everyone,</p> <p>I'm just wondering what the essential books you tell your students are on your course reading lists. It may be useful to compile a list of those used (and point out to others ones that they have missed?) I'm aware that a lot has been published over the last few years - what am I missing? Thanks. </p> <p>Here are my essentials:<br /> -Set Text: "A Companion to Digital Humanities". Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., Unsworth, J. (Eds). Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Paperback Edition, 2007. Available freely online at <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/</a><br /> -Set Text: "A Companion to Digital Literary Studies". Schreibman, S., and Siemens, R., (Eds). Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. 2008. Available freely online at <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/</a></p> <p>-Susan Hockey. (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br /> -Deegan, M. and Tanner, S. (2006) “Digital Preservation”. London, Library Association Publishing.<br /> -Deegan, M. and Tanner, S. (2001) “Digital Futures: strategies for the Information Age”. London, Library Association Publishing.<br /> -Hughes, L. (2004). “Digitizing Collections, Strategic Issues for the Information Manager”. London, Facet.<br /> -Kenney, A. and Reiger, O. (2000) "Moving Theory Into Practice, Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives". RLG.<br /> - Macdonald, L.W. (2006). “Digital Heritage: applying digital imaging to cultural heritage”. Elsevier<br /> -Naughton, J. (2000) “A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet”. Pheonix.<br /> -Cameron and Kenderdine (2007), “Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse”. MIT Press.<br /> -Greengrass, M. and Hughes, L. (2008).”The virtual representation of the past”. Ashgate<br /> -Matthew G Kirschenbaum (2008) “Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination”, MIT Press. </p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Melissa </p>