The following are a few Digital Humanities readings and resources, suggested by our affiliated faculty. It is by no means intended as an exhaustive list. If you think there is a resource we should add to this page, please email us at librarydh@sdsu.edu.
Resources for teaching yourself to code can be found at the Create: Tools and Areas of DH tab of this guide.
Arnold, Taylor and Lauren Tilton. Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images. MIT Press, 2023. Open access version available.
Bailey, Moya. Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance. NYU Press, 2021. Full text available through SDSU Library.
Benjamin, Ruha. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Wiley, 2019. Full text available through SDSU Library.
Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.
Bogers, Loes and Chiappini, Letizia, eds. The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019.
Chambliss, Julian. Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists. Michigan State University Libraries, 2021. Open access. Also available via the Humanities Commons.
Chambliss, Julian and Ellen Moll, eds. Making Sense of Digital Humanities: Transformations and Interventions in Technocultures. East Lansing, Michigan State University Libraries, 2022. Open access and multiple formats available.
Chun, Wendy. Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition. MA: MIT Press, 2021.
Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. MA: MIT Press, 2020. Open access version available.
Crompton, Constance, Richard J. Lane and Ray Siemens, eds. Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research. Routledge, 2016.
D'Ignazio, Catherine and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Open access version available.
Fiormonte, Domenico, Sukanta Chaudhuri, and Paola Ricaurte, eds. Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2022. Open access version available.
Karsdorp, Folgert, Mike Kestemont, and Allen Riddell. Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Kim, Dorothy and Adeline Koh, eds. Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities. Punctum Books, 2021. Free e-book available.
Losh, Elizabeth and Jacqueline Wernimont, eds. Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Open access version available. Part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities series.
Macdonald, Shana, Brianna I. Wiens, Michelle MacArthur and Milena Radzikowska, eds. Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Open access version available.
Marino, Mark C. Critical Code Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Critical Code Studies website.
O'Sullivan, James, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities, 2023. Open access Zotero library.
Price, Kenneth M. and Ray Siemens. Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology. MLA Commons. Born-digital volume that is still being updated.
Risam, Roopika and Kelly Baker Josephs, eds., The Digital Black Atlantic: Exploring the Intersections of Digital Humanities and African Diaspora Studies. Minnesota University Press, 2021. Open access version available.
Steele, Catherine Knight. Digital Black Feminism. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Print copy available through SDSU Library.
Svensson, Patrik. Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Weingart, Scott B., et al. The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, 2019.
The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities by
Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interaction, interfaces, mediation, materiality, remediation, data, memory, making, programming, and hacking.
Graphesis by
In our current screen-saturated culture, we take in more information through visual means than at any point in history. The computers and smart phones that constantly flood us with images do more than simply convey information. They structure our relationship to information through graphical formats. Learning to interpret how visual forms not only present but produce knowledge, says Johanna Drucker, has become an essential contemporary skill. Graphesis provides a descriptive critical language for the analysis of graphical knowledge. In an interdisciplinary study fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Drucker outlines the principles by which visual formats organize meaningful content. Among the most significant of these formats is the graphical user interface (GUI)--the dominant feature of the screens of nearly all consumer electronic devices. Because so much of our personal and professional lives is mediated through visual interfaces, it is important to start thinking critically about how they shape knowledge, our behavior, and even our identity. Information graphics bear tell-tale signs of the disciplines in which they originated: statistics, business, and the empirical sciences. Drucker makes the case for studying visuality from a humanistic perspective, exploring how graphic languages can serve fields where qualitative judgments take priority over quantitative statements of fact. Graphesis offers a new epistemology of the ways we process information, embracing the full potential of visual forms and formats of knowledge production.
Debates in the Digital Humanities by
Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promises to transform the liberal arts--and perhaps the university itself. Indeed, at a time when many academic institutions are facing austerity budgets, digital humanities programs have been able to hire new faculty, establish new centers and initiatives, and attract multimillion-dollar grants. Clearly the digital humanities has reached a significant moment in its brief history. But what sort of moment is it? Debates in the Digital Humanities brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. From defining what a digital humanist is and determining whether the field has (or needs) theoretical grounding, to discussions of coding as scholarship and trends in data-driven research, this cutting-edge volume delineates the current state of the digital humanities and envisions potential futures and challenges. At the same time, several essays aim pointed critiques at the field for its lack of attention to race, gender, class, and sexuality; the inadequate level of diversity among its practitioners; its absence of political commitment; and its preference for research over teaching. Together, the essays in Debates in the Digital Humanities--which will be published both as a printed book and later as an ongoing, open-access website--suggest that the digital humanities is uniquely positioned to contribute to the revival of the humanities and academic life. Contributors: Bryan Alexander, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Jamie "Skye" Bianco, U of Pittsburgh; Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center; Daniel J. Cohen, George Mason U; Cathy N. Davidson, Duke U; Rebecca Frost Davis, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Johanna Drucker, U of California, Los Angeles; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Charlie Edwards; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College; Julia Flanders, Brown U; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Paul Fyfe, Florida State U; Michael Gavin, Rice U; David Greetham, CUNY Graduate Center; Jim Groom, U of Mary Washington; Gary Hall, Coventry U, UK; Mills Kelly, George Mason U; Matthew Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland; Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Losh, U of California, San Diego; Lev Manovich, U of California, San Diego; Willard McCarty, King's College London; Tara McPherson, U of Southern California; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Trevor Owens, Library of Congress; William Pannapacker, Hope College; Dave Parry, U of Texas at Dallas; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska, Lincoln; Alexander Reid, SUNY at Buffalo; Geoffrey Rockwell, Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts; Mark L. Sample, George Mason U; Tom Scheinfeldt, George Mason U; Kathleen Marie Smith; Lisa Spiro, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education; Patrik Svensson, Umeå U; Luke Waltzer, Baruch College; Matthew Wilkens, U of Notre Dame; George H. Williams, U of South Carolina Upstate; Michael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library.
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 by
The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether Contending with recent developments like the shocking 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the radical transformation of the social web, and passionate debates about the future of data in higher education, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 brings together a broad array of important, thought-provoking perspectives on the field's many sides. With a wide range of subjects including gender-based assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, data-based methods for exhuming forgotten histories, video games, three-dimensional printing, and decolonial work, this book assembles a who's who of the field in more than thirty impactful essays.Contributors: Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Taylor Arnold, U of Richmond; James Baker, U of Sussex; Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State U; David M. Berry, U of Sussex; Claire Bishop, The Graduate Center, CUNY; James Coltrain, U of Nebraska-Lincoln; Crunk Feminist Collective; Johanna Drucker, U of California-Los Angeles; Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College; Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City College of Technology-CUNY; M. Beatrice Fazi, U of Sussex; Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College-CUNY; Curtis Fletcher, U of Southern California; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State U; Michael Gavin, U of South Carolina; Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers U; Andrew Gomez, U of Puget Sound; Elyse Graham, Stony Brook U; Brian Greenspan, Carleton U; John Hunter, Bucknell U; Steven J. Jackson, Cornell U; Collin Jennings, Miami U; Lauren Kersey, Saint Louis U; Kari Kraus, U of Maryland; Seth Long, U of Nebraska, Kearney; Laura Mandell, Texas A&M U; Rachel Mann, U of South Carolina; Jason Mittell, Middlebury College; Lincoln A. Mullen, George Mason U; Trevor Muú1oz, U of Maryland; Safiya Umoja Noble, U of Southern California; Jack Norton, Normandale Community College; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; élika Ortega, Northeastern U; Marisa Parham, Amherst College; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Kyle Parry, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brad Pasanek, U of Virginia; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska-Lincoln; Matt Ratto, U of Toronto; Katie Rawson, U of Pennsylvania; Ben Roberts, U of Sussex; David S. Roh, U of Utah; Mark Sample, Davidson College; Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, New York U; Tim Sherratt, U of Canberra; Bobby L. Smiley, Vanderbilt U; Lauren Tilton, U of Richmond; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Ward, Oregon State U; Claire Warwick, Durham U; Alban Webb, U of Sussex; Adrian S. Wisnicki, U of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The Costs of Connection by
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free--it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives--our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a new social order emerging globally--and it must be challenged. Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated, they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and emancipate our desire for connection.
Between Humanities and the Digital by
Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology as both a scholarly tool and a cultural object in need of analysis. The contributors explore the state of the art in digital humanities from varied disciplinary perspectives, offer a sample of digitally inflected work that ranges from an analysis of computational literature to the collaborative development of a "Global Middle Ages" humanities platform, and examine new models for knowledge production and infrastructure. Their contributions show not only that the digital has prompted the humanities to move beyond traditional scholarly horizons, but also that the humanities have pushed the digital to become more than a narrowly technical application. Contributors Ian Bogost, Anne Cong-Huyen, Mats Dahlström, Cathy N. Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Amy E. Earhart, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Maurizio Forte, Zephyr Frank, David Theo Goldberg, Jennifer González, Jo Guldi, N. Katherine Hayles, Geraldine Heng, Larissa Hjorth, Tim Hutchings, Henry Jenkins, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Cecilia Lindhé, Alan Liu, Elizabeth Losh, Tara McPherson, Chandra Mukerji, Nick Montfort, Jenna Ng, Bethany Nowviskie, Jennie Olofsson, Lisa Parks, Natalie Phillips, Todd Presner, Stephen Rachman, Patricia Seed, Nishant Shah, Ray Siemens, Jentery Sayers, Jonathan Sterne, Patrik Svensson, William G. Thomas III, Whitney Anne Trettien, Michael Widner
New Digital Worlds by
The emergence of digital humanities has been heralded for its commitment to openness, access, and the democratizing of knowledge, but it raises a number of questions about omissions with respect to race, gender, sexuality, disability, and nation. Postcolonial digital humanities is one approach to uncovering and remedying inequalities in digital knowledge production, which is implicated in an information-age politics of knowledge. New Digital Worlds traces the formation of postcolonial studies and digital humanities as fields, identifying how they can intervene in knowledge production in the digital age. Roopika Risam examines the role of colonial violence in the development of digital archives and the possibilities of postcolonial digital archives for resisting this violence. Offering a reading of the colonialist dimensions of global organizations for digital humanities research, she explores efforts to decenter these institutions by emphasizing the local practices that subtend global formations and pedagogical approaches that support this decentering. Last, Risam attends to human futures in new digital worlds, evaluating both how algorithms and natural language processing software used in digital humanities projects produce universalist notions of the "human" and also how to resist this phenomenon.
A New Companion to Digital Humanities by
This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities
Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
Digital Humanities Now (aggregator of existing content): http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/
DH Commons: http://dhcommons.org/
Digital Humanities Net/Works: https://dhnetworks.lib.buffalo.edu/ (launched late 2020)
Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH): https://ideah.pubpub.org/ (launched summer 2020)
Journal of Digital Humanities: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/
Reviews in Digital Humanities (new): https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/ (includes a growing project registry)
Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship (launched 2019): https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/index
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), Victoria, B.C. Held annually in the summer.
Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT). Held annually in the summer at different locations.
NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Digital humanities institutes on a range of topics that change year-to-year. Hosting institutions promote their own institutes.
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS). Held annually in the U.K.
DH Downunder, Western Sydney University. A Digital Humanities / Digital Research Methods Summer Institute held in December (began 2017).
DH@Guelph Summer Workshops, University of Guelph, Canada. A summer workshop series with different course tracks, typically runs annually.
