Description: My book Amongst Digital Humanists: An ethnographic study of digital knowledge production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) brings an ethnographic account of the changing landscape of humanities scholarship as it affects individual scholars, academic fields, and institutions, and argues for a pluralistic vision of digital knowledge production in the humanities. This thorough and far-reaching study of academic…
My book Amongst Digital Humanists: An ethnographic study of digital knowledge production ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) brings an ethnographic account of the changing landscape of humanities scholarship as it affects individual scholars, academic fields, and institutions, and argues for a pluralistic vision of digital knowledge production in the humanities.
This thorough and far-reaching study of academic research practices fills an important gap in debates about the Digital Humanities. Using extensive ethnographic research at twenty-three institutions in Europe and the US, Antonijević provides engaging analysis of digitally mediated knowledge practices in the humanities from three perspectives: individual scholar, discipline, and institution. An invaluable contribution to research into the changing roles and habits of the (increasingly digital) Humanist. – Pa
At last, a thorough field study that does not approach the digital humanities as a sole entity, but puts the practices of humanities researchers central. This comprehensive, multifaceted ethnography of the expectations, successes, but also failures of all sorts of actors using digital methods in humanities research should not only be read by (digital) humanists or collaborating computer scientists. Policy makers of universities and funding organizations could also benefit from this empirical exploration of