The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age.Comprising 43 essays from some of the field's leading scholars and practitioners, this comprehensive collection examines, among its many subjects, the emergence and ongoing development of DH, postcolonial digital humanities, feminist digital humanities, race and DH, multilingual digital humanities, media studies as DH, the failings of DH, critical digital humanities, the future of text encoding, cultural analytics, natural language processing, open access and digital publishing, digital cultural heritage, archiving and editing, sustainability, DH pedagogy, labour, artificial intelligence, the cultural economy, and the role of the digital humanities in climate change.The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities:Surveys key contemporary debates within DH, focusing on pressing issues of perspective, methodology, access, capacity, and sustainability.Reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of the digital humanities.Features an intuitive structure which divides topics across five sections: "Perspectives & Polemics", "Methods, Tools & Techniques", "Public Digital Humanities", "Institutional Contexts", and "DH Futures".Comprehensive in scope and accessibility written, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities and wider arts and humanities.Featuring contributions from pre-eminent scholars and radical thinkers both established and emerging, The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities should long serve as a roadmap through the myriad formulations, methodologies, opportunities, and limitations of DH. Comprehensive in its scope, pithy in style yet forensic in its scholarship, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners working across the digital humanities, whatever DH might be, and whatever DH might become.

Reconsidering the Present and Future of the Digital HumanitiesJames O'SullivanI. Perspectives & PolemicsNormative Digital HumanitiesJohanna DruckerThe Peripheries and Epistemic Margins of Digital HumanitiesDomenico Fiormonte & Gimena del Rio RiandeDigital Humanities Outlooks Beyond the WestLanga Khumalo & Titilola AiyegbusiPostcolonial Digital Humanities ReconsideredRoopika RisamRace, Otherness, and the Digital HumanitiesRahul K. GairolaQueer Digital HumanitiesJason Boyd & Bo RubergFeminist Digital HumanitiesAmy E. EarhartMultilingual Digital HumanitiesPedro Nilsson-Fernàndez & Quinn DombrowskiDigital Humanities and/as Media StudiesAbigail Moreshead & Anastasia SalterAutoethnographies of MediationJulie M. Funk & Jentery SayersThe Dark Side of DHJames SmithiesII. Methods, Tools & TechniquesCritical Digital HumanitiesDavid M. BerryDoes Coding Matter for Doing Digital Humanities?Quinn DombrowskiThe Present and Future of Encoding Text(s)James CummingsOn Computers in Text AnalysisJoanna ByszukThe Possibilities and Limitations of Natural Language Processing for the HumanitiesAlexandra SchofieldAnalysing Audio/Visual Data in the Digital HumanitiesTaylor Arnold & Lauren TiltonSocial Media, Research, and the Digital HumanitiesNaomi WellsSpatializing the HumanitiesStuart DunnVisualising Humanities DataShawn L. DayIII. Public Digital HumanitiesOpen Access in the Humanities DisciplinesMartin Paul EveOld Books, New Books and Digital PublishingElena Pierazzo & Peter StokesDigital Humanities and the Academic Books of the FutureJane WintersDigital Humanities and Digitised Cultural HeritageMelissa TerrasSharing as CARE and FAIR in the Digital HumanitiesPatrick Egan & Órla MurphyDigital Archives as Socially and Civically Just Public ResourcesKent GerberIV. Institutional ContextsTool Criticism through Playful Digital Humanities PedagogyMax KemmanThe Invisible Labor of DH PedagogyBrian Croxall & Diane JakackiBuilding Digital Humanities CentresMichael PiddEmbracing Decline in Digital Scholarship beyond SustainabilityAnna-Maria SichaniLibraries and the Problem of Digital Humanities DiscoveryRoxanne ShiraziLabour, Alienation, and the Digital HumanitiesShawna Ross & Andrew PilschDigital Humanities at Work in the WorldSarah Ruth JacobsV. DH FuturesDatawork and the Future of DHRafael AlvaradoThe Place of Computation in the Study of CultureDaniel AllingtonThe Grand Challenges of Digital HumanitiesAndrew PrescottDigital Humanities, Open Social Scholarship, and Engaged PublicsAlyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, and the INKE PartnershipDigital Humanities and Cultural EconomyTully BarnettBringing a Design Mindset (DM) to Digital Humanities (DH)Mary GalvinReclaiming the Future with Old MediaLori EmersonThe (literary) text and its futuresAnne KarhioAI, Ethics, and Digital HumanitiesDavid M. BerryDigital Humanities in the Age of ExtinctionGraham Allen & Jenni DeBie