Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field

By Julie Thompson Klein

Book Overview

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and sustaining a new field, it depicts both the ways this new field is being situated within individual domains and dynamic cross-fertilizations that are fostering new relationships across academic boundaries. It also accounts for digital reinvigorations of "public humanities" in cultural heritage institutions of museums, archives, libraries, and community forums.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052543
• ISBN13: 9780472052547
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"