Digital Humanities and Laboratories
Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture
1st Edition
Published on 14. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
310 pages
978-1-032-02765-4 (ISBN)
Description
Digital Humanities and Laboratories explores laboratories dedicated to the study of digital humanities (DH) in a global context and contributes to the expanding body of knowledge about situated DH knowledge production.
Including a foreword by David Berry and contributions from a diverse, international range of scholars and practitioners, this volume examines the ways laboratories of all kinds contribute to digital research and pedagogy. Acknowledging that they are emerging amid varied cultural and scientific traditions, the volume considers how they lead to the specification of digital humanities and how a locally situated knowledge production is embedded in the global infrastructure system. As a whole, the book consolidates the discussion on the role of the laboratory in DH and brings digital humanists into the interdisciplinary debate concerning the notion of a laboratory as a critical site in the generation of experimental knowledge. Positioning the discussion in relation to ongoing debates in DH, the volume argues that laboratory studies are in an excellent position to capitalize on the theories and knowledge developed in the DH field and open up new research inquiries.
Digital Humanities and Laboratories clearly demonstrates that the laboratory is a key site for theoretical and critical analyses of digital humanities and will thus be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners engaged in the study of DH, culture, media, heritage and infrastructure.
Including a foreword by David Berry and contributions from a diverse, international range of scholars and practitioners, this volume examines the ways laboratories of all kinds contribute to digital research and pedagogy. Acknowledging that they are emerging amid varied cultural and scientific traditions, the volume considers how they lead to the specification of digital humanities and how a locally situated knowledge production is embedded in the global infrastructure system. As a whole, the book consolidates the discussion on the role of the laboratory in DH and brings digital humanists into the interdisciplinary debate concerning the notion of a laboratory as a critical site in the generation of experimental knowledge. Positioning the discussion in relation to ongoing debates in DH, the volume argues that laboratory studies are in an excellent position to capitalize on the theories and knowledge developed in the DH field and open up new research inquiries.
Digital Humanities and Laboratories clearly demonstrates that the laboratory is a key site for theoretical and critical analyses of digital humanities and will thus be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners engaged in the study of DH, culture, media, heritage and infrastructure.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
23 s/w Abbildungen, 23 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-02765-4 (9781032027654)
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Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture
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Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture
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Urszula Pawlicka-Deger | Christopher Thomson
Digital Humanities and Laboratories
Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture
E-Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
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Persons
Urszula Pawlicka-Deger is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at King's Digital Lab, King's College London. She is conducting an ethnography of digital humanities laboratories combined with a critical analysis of infrastructure. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, a Fulbright scholar at Washington State University Vancouver, and a fellow at the University of Birmingham.
Christopher Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa/New Zealand where he researches and teaches on digital methods in humanities research, and is currently the director of the UC Arts Digital Lab. He is part of the team that produced the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, and has published on post-disaster archiving. He teaches and supervises students in literary studies, communications and data science.
Christopher Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa/New Zealand where he researches and teaches on digital methods in humanities research, and is currently the director of the UC Arts Digital Lab. He is part of the team that produced the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, and has published on post-disaster archiving. He teaches and supervises students in literary studies, communications and data science.
Content
Foreword; The Promise of Laboratories: An Introduction to Digital Humanities Laboratories in the 21st Century; Part 1: Epistemological and Philosophical Perspectives; 1. A Nurturing Lab Model for Computational Literary Studies: An Inside Perspective from the BGU Literary Lab; 2. Are We There Yet? How a Lab Transformed from Traditional History of Science to a Computational Research Lab; 3. Droit de cite: The Digital Lab as Digital Milieu; 4. How to Avoid Being a DH Lab: The Stories of the Sussex Humanities Lab; Part 2: Socio-Technical and Infrastructural Approaches; 5. More Than a Lab: Infra-structuring the Humanities in the Digital Studio; 6. The Life of a Digital Humanities Lab; 7. Initiating and Sustaining a Digital Humanities Laboratory in Nigeria; 8. Theory by Other Means? Prototypes in Digital Humanities Laboratories; Part 3: Collaborations; 9. Knowledge Transfer in Digital Humanities Labs: Laboratory of Innovation in Digital Humanities (LINHD-UNED);10. Exploring dHeKalos: A Digital Heritage Lab for Building Up New Skills and Sharing Responsibilities with Cultural Institutions; 11. The Minimum Research Outcome: A Mechanism for Generating and Managing Projects in Labs; Part 4: Socio-Cultural Approaches; 12. Interdisciplinary Technology Communities: Using Feminist Epistemologies and Pedagogy in a DH Lab to Promote Social Good through Undergraduate Student Programming; 13. At Home in the Digital Humanities?; 14. Digital Humanities Laboratories and its Discontents: Experiments and Perspectives from India; 15. Digital Humanities Labs: Spaces for Innovation to Reconnect the Humanities with Society