1st Edition

Digital Humanities and Laboratories Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture

Edited By Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Christopher Thomson Copyright 2024
310 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword

David M. Berry

The Promise of Laboratories: An Introduction to Digital Humanities Laboratories in the 21st Century

Urszula Pawlicka-Deger and Christopher Thomson

Part 1: Epistemological and Philosophical Perspectives

1. A Nurturing Lab Model for Computational Literary Studies: An Inside Perspective from the BGU Literary Lab

Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky

2. Are We There Yet? How a Lab Transformed from Traditional History of Science to a Computational Research Lab

Julia Damerow and Manfred Laubichler 

3. Droit de cité: The Digital Lab as Digital Milieu

James Smithies, Patrick ffrench, and Arianna Ciula

4. How to Avoid Being a DH Lab: The Stories of the Sussex Humanities Lab

Anna-Maria Sichani, James Baker, Alice Eldridge, Tim Hitchcock, Ben Roberts, Suzanne Tatham, Amelia Wakeford, Jo Walton, Sharon Webb, and SHL team

 

Part 2: Socio-Technical and Infrastructural Approaches

5. More Than a Lab: Infra-structuring the Humanities in the Digital Studio

Rachel Fensham, Natalia Grincheva, and Tyne Daile Sumner

6. The Life of a Digital Humanities Lab

Aaron Brenner, Sarah Connell, Jennifer Grayburn, Matthew Hannah, Brad Rittenhouse, and Brandon Walsh

7. Initiating and Sustaining a Digital Humanities Laboratory in Nigeria

Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi), Ayodele James Akinola, and Anthony Elisha Anowu

8. Theory by Other Means? Prototypes in Digital Humanities Laboratories

Rabea Kleymann

 

Part 3: Collaborations

9. Knowledge Transfer in Digital Humanities Labs: Laboratory of Innovation in Digital Humanities (LINHD-UNED)

Maurizio Toscano, Salvador Ros Muñoz, and Elena González-Blanco Garcia

10. Exploring dHeKalos: A Digital Heritage Lab for Building Up New Skills and Sharing Responsibilities with Cultural Institutions

Paolo Clini, Emanuele Frontoni, Eva S. Malinverni, Ramona Quattrini, Chiara Mariotti, Romina Nespeca, and Roberto Pierdicca

11. The Minimum Research Outcome: A Mechanism for Generating and Managing Projects in Labs

Giorgia Tolfo, Emma Griffin, Mia Ridge, Ruth Ahnert, and Kaspar Beelen

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

Jacquelyne Thoni Howard

13. At Home in the Digital Humanities?

Sara Woodbury, Elizabeth Losh, and Laura Beltrán-Rubio

14. Digital Humanities Laboratories and its Discontents: Experiments and Perspectives from India

Dibyadyuti Roy and Maya Dodd

15. Digital Humanities Labs: Spaces for Innovation to Reconnect the Humanities with Society

Esteban Romero-Frías and Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho

 

 

 

Biography

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.