Review by Choice Review
The field of digital humanities is increasingly wide-ranging, as digital tools demonstrate their uses and unmask fresh potential in delivering new scholarly output. Pioneers in this movement include editors Cohen and Scheinfeldt (both, George Mason Univ.), who are leaders in directing successful alternatives to traditional forms of scholarly communication. Among the topics this book discusses is the use of web-based technologies to manage information retrieval research, publishing ventures, and online exhibits. Various academic contributors discuss new approaches that mix technology with humanities scholarship and give readers a refreshing sense of optimism and innovation. This volume of provocative readings is the best of the best--the result of a crowdsourced call to academics conducted in one week in 2010, using social media to explore new approaches to higher education and rapid changes in instruction, learning, and scholarship. The best 44 contributions form the foundation of this clever, ambitious survey, which digs deeply into past traditions. The hacking of various aspects of academic scholarship, publishing, teaching, institutions, and culture is resulting in a new scholarly infrastructure. The insights that this volume provides will challenge and excite readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. J. Gelfand University of California, Irvine
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Review by Choice Review
