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Edited by O’Sullivan, James

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age. Comprising 43 essays from some of the field’s leading scholars and practitioners, this comprehensive collection examines, among its many subjects, the emergence and ongoing development of DH, postcolonial digital humanities, feminist digital humanities, race and DH, multilingual digital humanities, media studies as DH, the failings of DH, critical digital humanities, the future of text encoding, cultural analytics, natural language processing, open access and digital publishing, digital cultural heritage, archiving and editing, sustainability, DH pedagogy, labour, artificial intelligence, the cultural economy, and the role of the digital humanities in climate change. The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities:Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability.Reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of the digital humanities.Features an intuitive structure which divides topics across five sections: “Perspectives & Polemics”, “Methods, Tools & Techniques”, “Public Digital Humanities”, “Institutional Contexts”, and “DH Futures”.Comprehensive in scope and accessibility written, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities and wider arts and humanities.Featuring contributions from pre-eminent scholars and radical thinkers both established and emerging, The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities should long serve as a roadmap through the myriad formulations, methodologies, opportunities, and limitations of DH. Comprehensive in its scope, pithy in style yet forensic in its scholarship, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities, whatever DH might be, and whatever DH might become.

Table of contents
Reconsidering the Present and Future of the Digital HumanitiesJames O”Sullivan
I. Perspectives & Polemics Normative Digital HumanitiesJohanna Drucker The Peripheries and Epistemic Margins of Digital HumanitiesDomenico Fiormonte & Gimena del Rio Riande Digital Humanities Outlooks Beyond the WestLanga Khumalo & Titilola Aiyegbusi Postcolonial Digital Humanities ReconsideredRoopika Risam Race, Otherness, and the Digital HumanitiesRahul K. Gairola Queer Digital HumanitiesJason Boyd & Bo Ruberg Feminist Digital HumanitiesAmy E. Earhart Multilingual Digital HumanitiesPedro Nilsson-Fernàndez & Quinn Dombrowski Digital Humanities and/as Media StudiesAbigail Moreshead & Anastasia Salter Autoethnographies of MediationJulie M. Funk & Jentery Sayers The Dark Side of DHJames Smithies
II. Methods, Tools & Techniques Critical Digital HumanitiesDavid M. Berry Does Coding Matter for Doing Digital Humanities?Quinn Dombrowski The Present and Future of Encoding Text(s)James Cummings On Computers in Text AnalysisJoanna Byszuk The Possibilities and Limitations of Natural Language Processing for the HumanitiesAlexandra Schofield Analysing Audio/Visual Data in the Digital HumanitiesTaylor Arnold & Lauren Tilton Social Media, Research, and the Digital HumanitiesNaomi Wells Spatializing the HumanitiesStuart Dunn Visualising Humanities DataShawn L. Day
III. Public Digital Humanities Open Access in the Humaniti