Understanding Digital Humanities 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. Berry Also by David M. Berry COPY, RIP, BURN: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOFTWARE: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age LIBRE CULTURE: Meditations on Free Culture (co-edited with Giles Moss) 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. Berry Understanding Digital Humanities Edited by David M. Berry Senior Lecturer, Swansea University 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. Berry Introduction, selection and editorial matter © David M. Berry 2012 Individual chapters © Contributors 2012 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Berry For Felicity Ann Berry Hale 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. Berry 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. Berry Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi Notes on Contributors xiii 1 Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities 1 David M. Berry 2 An Interpretation of Digital Humanities 21 Leighton Evans and Sian Rees 3 How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies 42 N. Katherine Hayles 4 Digital Methods: Five Challenges 67 Bernhard Rieder and Theo Röhle 5 Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities 85 Jussi Parikka 6 Canonicalism and the Computational Turn 105 Caroline Bassett 7 The Esthetics of Hidden Things 127 Scott Dexter 8 The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts 145 Mireille Hildebrandt 9 Have the Humanities Always Been Digital? For an Understanding of the ‘Digital Humanities’ in the Context of Originary Technicity 161 Federica Frabetti 10 Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon 172 Melissa Terras 11 A nalysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns? 191 Dan Dixon vii 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. Berry viii Contents 12 Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation 210 Adelheid Heftberger 13 The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia 224 Morgan Currie 14 How to Compare One Million Images? 249 Lev Manovich 15 Cultures of Formalisation: Towards an Encounter between Humanities and Computing 279 Joris van Zundert, Smiljana Antonijevic, Anne Beaulieu, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Douwe Zeldenrust, and Tara L. Andrews 16 T ransdisciplinarity and Digital Humanities: Lessons Learned from Developing Text-Mining Tools for Textual Analysis 295 Yu-wei Lin Index 315 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. Berry Illustrations Table 11.1 Continuum of knowledge from applied to abstract 199 Figures 12.1 Graphic interface of Anvil 211 12.2 Three adjoining shots, frame grabs taken from A Sixth Part of the World 212 12.3 Diagram illustrating Vertov’s article, dated 1922 213 12.4 Graph taken from Cinemetrics, Man with a Movie Camera 215 12.5 The Eleventh Year 216 12.6 The Eleventh Year 217 12.7 Frame grabs taken from Man with a Movie Camera 218 12.8 Frame grabs taken from Three Songs about Lenin 219 12.9 Frame grabs taken from Three Songs about Lenin 219 12.10 Author’s Filmothek: Frame grabs taken from Man with a Movie Camera 221 13.1 The feminism network 232 13.2 Network topology, editors and article activity 234 13.3 Top editors and their issues 235 13.4 Network topology, bots and article activity 236 13.5 Two peaks in feminism’s editing history 237 13.6 Users’ top issues and number of reverts in two peaks 238 13.7 Main editor dispersal after the split 239 14.1 Exploring one million manga pages on the 287 megapixel HIPerSpace 249 14.2 Sample page from Vampire Knight 254 14.3 Sample page from One Piece 255 14.4 10,461 scanlation pages from One Piece which were available on OneManga.com in fall 2009 256 14.5 S ample pages from One Piece manga series drawn from the chapters 5, 200, and 400 257 14.6 A chapter from Abara manga by Tsutomu Nihei 260 14.7 A chapter from BioMega manga by Tsutomu Nihei 261 14.8 Abara pages 265 ix 10.1057/9780230371934 - Understanding Digital Humanities, Edited by David M. 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