Research Methods for the Digital Humanities

Edited by lewis levenberg, Tai Neilson, David Rheams //////////////// RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES Research Methods for the Digital Humanities lewis levenberg · Tai Neilson David Rheams Editors Research Methods for the Digital Humanities Editors lewis levenberg David Rheams Levenberg Services, Inc. The University of Texas at Dallas Bloomingburg, NY, USA Richardson, TX, USA Tai Neilson Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia ISBN 978-3-319-96712-7 ISBN 978-3-319-96713-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96713-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018950497 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifcally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microflms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifc statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affliations. Cover credit: Photoco This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland CONTENTS 1 Introduction: Research Methods for the Digital Humanities 1 Tai Neilson, lewis levenberg and David Rheams 2 On Interdisciplinary Studies of Physical Information Infrastructure 15 lewis levenberg 3 Archives for the Dark Web: A Field Guide for Study 31 Robert W. Gehl 4 MusicDetour: Building a Digital Humanities Archive 53 David Arditi 5 Creating an Infuencer-Relationship Model to Locate Actors in Environmental Communications 63 David Rheams 6 Digital Humanities for History of Philosophy: A Case Study on Nietzsche 85 Mark Alfano v vi CONTENTS 7 Researching Online Museums: Digital Methods to Study Virtual Visitors 103 Natalia Grincheva 8 Smart Phones and Photovoice: Exploring Participant Lives with Photos of the Everyday 129 Erin Brock Carlson and Trinity Overmyer 9 Digital Media, Conventional Methods: Using Video Interviews to Study the Labor of Digital Journalism 151 Tai Neilson 10 Building Video Game Adaptations of Dramatic and Literary Texts 173 E. B. Hunter 11 Virtual Bethel: Preservation of Indianapolis’s Oldest Black Church 195 Zebulun M. Wood, Albert William, Ayoung Yoon and Andrea Copeland 12 Code/Art Approaches to Data Visualization 211 J. J. Sylvia IV 13 Research Methods in Recording Oral Tradition: Choosing Between the Evanescence of the Digital or the Senescence of the Analog 233 Nick Thieberger 14 A Philological Approach to Sound Preservation 243 Federica Bressan 15 User Interfaces for Creating Digital Research 263 Tarrin Wills COntents vii 16 Developing Sustainable Open Heritage Datasets 287 Henriette Roued-Cunliffe 17 Telling Untold Stories: Digital Textual Recovery Methods 309 Roopika Risam Glossary 319 Index 323 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Mark Alfano’s work in moral psychology encompasses subfelds in both philosophy (ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind) and social science (social psychology, personality psychology). He is ecumenical about methods, having used modal logic, questionnaires, tests of implicit cognition, incentivizing techniques borrowed from behavioral economics, neuroimaging, textual interpretation (especially of Nietzsche), and Digital Humanities techniques (text-mining, archive analysis, visualization). He has experience working with R, Tableau, and Gephi. David Arditi is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research addresses the impact of digital technology on society and culture with a specifc focus on music. Arditi is author of iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era and his essays have appeared in Critical Sociology, Popular Music & Society, the Journal of Popular Music Studies,Civilisations, Media Fields Journal and several edited volumes. He also serves as Co-Editor of Fast Capitalism. Federica Bressan (1981) is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, where she leads a research project on multimedia cultural heritage under the Marie Curie funding programme H2020- MSCA-IF-2015. She holds an M.D. in Musicology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. From 2012 to 2016 she held a post-doctoral research position at the Department of Information Engineering, University of ix x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Padova, Italy, where she coordinated the laboratory for sound preservation and restoration. The vision underlying her research revolves around technology and culture, creativity and identity. Her main expertise is in the feld of multimedia preservation, with a special attention for interac- tive systems. Erin Brock Carlson is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University in Rhetoric and Composition, where she has taught advanced professional writing courses and mentored graduate students teaching in the intro- ductory composition program. Her research interests include public rhetorics, professional-technical writing, and participatory research methods. Her work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and Refections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy, and is forthcoming in the print version of Computers and Composition. Andrea Copeland is the Chair of Library and Information Science and Associate Professor at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis. Her research focus is public libraries and their relationship with communities. She is the co-editor of a recent volume, Participatory Heritage, which explores the many ways that people participate in cultural heritage activities outside of formal institutions. It also examines the possibility of making connections to those institutions to increase access and the chance of preservation for the tangible outputs that result from those activities. Robert W. Gehl is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. He is the author of Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2p (MIT Press, 2018) and Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple University Press, 2014). His research focuses on alternative social media, software studies, and Internet cultures. Natalia Grincheva holder of several prestigious academic awards, including Fulbright (2007–2009), Quebec Fund (2011–2013), Australian Endeavour (2012–2013) and other fellowships, Dr. Natalia Grincheva has traveled around the world to conduct research for her doctoral dissertation on digital diplomacy. Focusing on new “Museology and Social Media Technologies”, she has successfully implemented a number of research projects on the “diplomatic” uses of new media by the largest museums in North America, Europe, and Asia. Combining digital media studies, international relations and new museology, her NOTES ON CONTRIBUTOrs xi research provides an analysis of non-state forms of contemporary cultural diplomacy, implemented online within a museum context. A frequent speaker, panel participant or a session chair in various international conferences, Natalia is also an author of numerous articles published in International Academic Journals, including Global Media and Communication Journal, Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Critical Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, and many others. E. B. Hunter formerly the artistic director of an immersive Shakespeare project at a restored blast furnace in Birmingham, Alabama, E. B. Hunter is fnishing her Ph.D. in theatre at Northwestern University. Hunter researches live cultural contexts—theatre, museums, and theme parks—to fnd the production choices that create authenticity and mean- ingful interactivity. To test her fndings in a digital environment, Hunter launched the startup lab Fabula(b) at Northwestern’s innovation incuba- tor. She is currently leading the build of Bitter Wind, a HoloLens adaptation of Agememnon, which has been featured by Microsoft and SH// FT Media’s Women in Mixed Reality initiative. lewis levenberg lives and works in New York State. Tai Neilson is a lecturer in Media at Macquarie University, Sydney. His areas of expertise include the “Political Economy of Digital Media and Critical Cultural Theory”. Dr. Neilson has published work on journalism and digital media in Journalism, Fast Capitalism, and Global Media Journal. His current research focuses on the reorganization of journal- ists labour through the use of digital media. Dr. Neilson teaches classes in news and current affairs, and digital media. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University in Virginia and his M.A. in Sociology from the New

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