Research Methods for the Digital Humanities

lewis levenberg has a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. He manages an information-technology research consultancy in New York. Tai Neilson is a lecturer in Media at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published work in Journalism, Fast Capitalism, and Global Media Journal.  David Rheams has a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. He has been in the software industry for over 15 years leading support and product teams.

“This book will help readers to navigate practical applications and to have critical understandings of DH methods. It would be of interest to some DH students and researchers, social scientists, humanists, and computer and data scientists because of its broad scope of projects.” (Huayong Li, DSH Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 34 (3), September, 2019)

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Research Methods for Digital Humanities.- Chapter 2 On Interdisciplinary Studies of Physical Information Infrastructure.- Chapter 3 Archives for the Dark Web: A Field Guide for Study.- Chapter 4 MusicDetour: Building a digital humanities archive.- Chapter 4 MusicDetour: Building a digital humanities archive.- Chapter 5 Creating an Influencer-Relationship Model to Locate Actors in Environmental Communications.- Chapter 6 Digital Humanities for History of Philosophy: A Case Study on Nietzsche.- Chapter 7 Researching Online Museums: Digital Methods to Study Virtual Visitors.- Chapter 8 Smart Phones and Photovoice: Exploring Participant Lives with Photos of the Everyday.- Chapter 9 Digital Media, Conventional Methods: Using Video Interviews to Study the Labor of Digital Journalism.- Chapter 10 Building Video Game Adaptations of Dramatic and Literary Texts.- Chapter 11 Virtual Bethel: Preservation of Indianapolis’ Oldest Black Church.- Chapter 12 Code/Art Approaches to Data Visualization.- Chapter 13 Research methods in recording oral tradition: Choosing between the evanescence of the digital or the senescence of the analog.- Chapter 14 A Philological Approach to Sound Preservation.- Chapter 15 User Interfaces for Creating Digital Research.- Chapter 16 Developing Sustainable Open Heritage Datasets.- Chapter 17 Telling Untold Stories: Digital Textual Recovery Methods.