Understanding Digital Humanities by David Berry

This concise, critical introduction explains how computational methods and humanistic inquiry intersect, tracing the field’s development and core concepts while surveying practical techniques—digitization, text encoding, distant reading, network analysis, visualization—and the infrastructures that support them. It situates these practices within broader debates about labor, ethics, preservation, authority, and pedagogy, arguing for a theoretically informed, reflective engagement with digital technologies and outlining the institutional challenges and opportunities they create for scholars and cultural institutions.

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