The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities
Gabriel Hankins(Author)
Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 31. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-108-96470-8 (ISBN)
Description
How are the humanities transformed in the digital era? This book describes the transformation of the humanities by the largest shifts in the production of knowledge since the printing press. It addresses a wide range of disciplines, providing a history of those shifts and how humanists have responded to them. It argues that we are all digital humanists now, since we are all addressed by an era of pervasive digital research, reading, teaching, and learning. This book provides a history of digital transformations in the humanities since the first computers, defines the digital humanities through specific communities, conversations, tactics, and intersections, and poses the key questions of the field. Rather than particular technologies or tools, this Introduction centers on the lasting intellectual objects, methods, and concerns of the humanities from the late medieval period to the explosive growth of generative AI.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
978-1-108-96470-8 (9781108964708)
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Gabriel Hankins
The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities
Book
approx. 07/2026
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Person
Gabriel Hankins is series co-editor for the Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies, and lead editor of Digital Futures for Graduate Study in the Humanities (Minnesota, 2024). His first book is Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order (Cambridge, 2019).
Content
Introduction: defining the digital humanities; 1. The revolutions of the word; 2. Histories: curation, preservation, loss; 3. Transformations; 4. Sight, sound, and sense-making; 5. Critique and construction.