A Brief Guide to the Digital Humanities

Authors

  • Anne Burdick Art Center College of Design/Professor and Chair of Media Design Practices (MDP)
  • Johanna Drucker University of California, Los Angeles/Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
  • Peter Lunenfeld University of California, Los Angeles/Professor and the Vice Chair of the Design Media Arts/Director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA), and founder of mediawork: The Southern California New Media Group.
  • Todd Presner University of California, Los Angeles/Chair of Digital Humanities Program
  • Jeffrey Schnapp Harvard University/Founder/Faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
  • Isabel Jungk Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology, Postgraduate Program in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3966-0714

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2020i21p69-98

Keywords:

Digital Humanities, Methodologies, Projects, Evaluation

Abstract

As digital methodologies, tools and skills become increasingly central to working in the humanities, questions concerning the foundations, project outcomes, evaluation and design have become urgent. The specifications provide a set of criteria to guide those actually working in the Digital Humanities, as well as those who are asked to evaluate and fund Digital Humanities researchers, projects, and initiatives.

Author Biographies

Anne Burdick, Art Center College of Design/Professor and Chair of Media Design Practices (MDP)

Anne Burdick is a designer, critic, educator, and researcher. For the last ten years, she has been Professor and Chair of Media Design Practices (MDP), a graduate program at Art Center College of Design focused on designing for the future of information and communication technologies. In Fall 2018, she is a visiting Professor of Visual Communication at University of Technology Sydney. In her design practice, Anne designs experimental text projects in diverse media, for which she has garnered recognition, from winning the prestigious Leipzig Award for book design to being nominated for a Webby Award for her work with interactive texts and electronic literature. With Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Pressner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, she is a co-author of the book Digital_Humanities, and her writing and design can be found in the Los Angeles Times, Eye Magazine, Émigré, and Electronic Book Review, among others, and her work is held in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Gallery, SFMOMA, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Anne's PhD research uses design fiction to ask questions about emerging technologies for reading and writing and their effects on knowledge production in the digital humanities.

Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles/Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

She is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital art aesthetics. She is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.

Peter Lunenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles/Professor and the Vice Chair of the Design Media Arts/Director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA), and founder of mediawork: The Southern California New Media Group.

Peter Lunenfeld is a critic and theorist of digital media, digital humanities, and urban humanities. He is a professor and the Vice Chair of the Design Media Arts department at UCLA, director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA), and founder of mediawork: The Southern California New Media Group.

Lunenfeld is a leading figure in digital aesthetic theory, set on establishing philosophical quandaries regarding digital technology and its role in art, design and culture. Works like Snap to Grid and The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading incorporate traditional and continental theories of art to account for digital media. His work revolves around the discources of technology, aesthetics, and cultural theory, establishing the complexity of digital aesthetics while simultaneously categorizing it.

Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles/Chair of Digital Humanities Program

Todd Presner is Chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and Ross Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature. Since 2018, he is Associate Dean of Digital Innovation in the Division of Humanities and Adviser to the Vice Chancellor of Research for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences research. From 2011-2018, he was the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He serves as faculty co-PI on the “Urban Humanities” initiative at UCLA. His research focuses on European intellectual history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography.

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University/Founder/Faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

Jeffrey Schnapp is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He holds the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

Isabel Jungk, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology, Postgraduate Program in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Isabel Jungk is a professor and advisor in the Specialization course in Psychoanalytic Semiotics - Clinic of Culture of the General Coordination of Specialization, Improvement and Extension (COGEAE) of PUC-SP since 2012, and in the Specialization courses in Material Culture and Consumption - Semiopsychoanalytic Perspectives, and Market Research in Communications of CRP-Publicity of the School of Communication and Arts of USP since 2019. Researcher, integrates the Study and Research Group Advanced Readings of Peirce of CIEP (International Center for Peircean Studies, TIDD-PUC/SP), the Research Group Transobjeto on contemporary realism, as well as the Development Project Construction of semiotic concepts for the creation of immersive environments.

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Published

2020-12-14

Issue

No. 21 (2020): Humanidades Digitais

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