Research Methods for the Digital Humanities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Research Methods for the Digital Humanities

   • Tai Neilson, lewis levenberg, David Rheams

   Pages 1-14

3. On Interdisciplinary Studies of Physical Information Infrastructure

   • lewis levenberg

   Pages 15-30

4. Archives for the Dark Web: A Field Guide for Study

   • Robert W. Gehl

   Pages 31-51

5. MusicDetour: Building a Digital Humanities Archive

   • David Arditi

   Pages 53-61

6. Creating an Influencer-Relationship Model to Locate Actors in Environmental Communications

   • David Rheams

   Pages 63-83

7. Digital Humanities for History of Philosophy: A Case Study on Nietzsche

   • Mark Alfano

   Pages 85-101

8. Researching Online Museums: Digital Methods to Study Virtual Visitors

   • Natalia Grincheva

   Pages 103-128

9. Smart Phones and Photovoice : Exploring Participant Lives with Photos of the Everyday

   • Erin Brock Carlson, Trinity Overmyer

   Pages 129-150

10. Digital Media, Conventional Methods: Using Video Interviews to Study the Labor of Digital Journalism

    • Tai Neilson

    Pages 151-171

11. Building Video Game Adaptations of Dramatic and Literary Texts

    • E. B. Hunter

    Pages 173-194

12. Virtual Bethel: Preservation of Indianapolis’s Oldest Black Church

    • Zebulun M. Wood, Albert William, Ayoung Yoon, Andrea Copeland

    Pages 195-210

13. Code/Art Approaches to Data Visualization

    • J. J. Sylvia IV

    Pages 211-231

14. Research Methods in Recording Oral Tradition: Choosing Between the Evanescence of the Digital or the Senescence of the Analog

    • Nick Thieberger

    Pages 233-241

15. A Philological Approach to Sound Preservation

    • Federica Bressan

    Pages 243-261

16. User Interfaces for Creating Digital Research

    • Tarrin Wills

    Pages 263-286

17. Developing Sustainable Open Heritage Datasets

    • Henriette Roued-Cunliffe

    Pages 287-307

18. Telling Untold Stories: Digital Textual Recovery Methods

    • Roopika Risam

    Pages 309-318

19. Back Matter

    Pages 319-325

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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.

• Research Methods
• Digital Humanities
• Method
• Methodologies
• Research Tools
• Digital Culture
• Qualitiative
• Quantitative
• Social Science
• Methodology
• media research

“This book will help readers to navigate practical applications and to have critical understandings of DH methods. It would be of interest to some DH students and researchers, social scientists, humanists, and computer and data scientists because of its broad scope of projects.” (Huayong Li, DSH Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 34 (3), September, 2019)

• Levenberg Services, Inc., Bloomingburg, USA

  lewis levenberg

• Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  Tai Neilson

• The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

  David Rheams

lewis levenberg has a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. He manages an information-technology research consultancy in New York.
 
Tai Neilson is a lecturer in Media at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published work in Journalism, Fast Capitalism, and Global Media Journal. 
 
David Rheams has a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. He has been in the software industry for over 15 years leading support and product teams.

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