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Of all the topics of interest in the digital humanities, the network has received comparatively little attention. We live in a networked society: texts, sounds, ideas, people, consumerism, protest movements, politics, entertainment, academia, and other items circulate in and through networks that come together and break apart at various moments. In these interactions, data sets of all sorts are formed, or at the least, are latent. Such data affect what the humanities is or might be. While there exist networked spaces of interaction for digital humanities work, considering in more detail how networks affect traditional and future goals of humanistic inquiry is a timely pursuit. Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University takes up this issue as a volume of collected work that asks these questions: Have the humanities sufficiently addressed the ways its various forms of work, as networks, affect other networks, within and outside of the university? What might a networked digital humanities be, or what is it currently if it does, indeed, exist? Can an understanding of the humanities as a series of networks affect--positively or negatively--the ways publics perceive humanities research, pedagogy, and mission? In addressing these questions, Networked Humanities offers both a critical and timely contribution to the spacious present and potential future of the digital humanities, both within academe and beyond.
Contributors include Neil Baird, Jenny Bay, Casey Boyle, James J. Brown, Jr., Levi R. Bryant, Naomi Clark, Bradley Dilger, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Paul Gestwicki, Tarez Samra Graban, Jeffrey T. Grabill, Laurie Gries, Byron Hawk, John Jones, Nate Kreuter, Devoney Looser, Rudy McDaniel, Derek Mueller, Liza Potts, Jeff Pruchnic, Jim Ridolfo, Nathaniel Rivers, Jillian J. Sayre, Lars Söderlund, Clay Spinuzzi, and Kathleen Blake Yancey.

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Date de parution	11 août 2018
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New Media Theory
Series Editor, Byron Hawk
The New Media Theory series investigates both media and new media as complex rhetorical ecologies. The merger of media and new media creates a global public sphere that is changing the ways we work, play, write, teach, think, and connect. Because these ecologies operate through evolving arrangements, theories of new media have yet to establish a rhetorical and theoretical paradigm that fully articulates this emerging digital life.
The series includes books that deploy rhetorical, social, cultural, political, textual, aesthetic, and material theories in order to articulate moments of mediation that compose these contemporary media ecologies. Such works typically bring rhetorical and critical theories to bear on media and new media in ways that elaborate on a burgeoning post-disciplinary “material turn” as one further development of the linguistic and social turns that have already influenced scholarly work across the humanities.
Books in the Series
Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University, edited by Jeff Rice and Brian McNely (2018)
Suasive Iterations: Rhetoric, Writing, and Physical Computing by David M. Rieder (2017)
Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing , edited by Sidney I. Dobrin (2015)
Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media by Isabel Pedersen (2013)
Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio- Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers , by Bump Halbritter (2013). Computers and Composition Best Book Award 2014.
The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric , by David M. Sheridan, Jim Ridolfo, and Anthony J. Michel (2012)
Avatar Emergency by Gregory L. Ulmer (2012)
New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy , edited by Jeff Rice and Marcel O’Gorman (2008)
The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition , by Alexander Reid (2007). Honorable Mention, W. Ross Winterowd/ JAC Award for Best Book in Composition Theory (2007)

Networked Humanities
Within and Without the University
Edited by Jeff Rice and Brian McNely
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Contents
1 Introduction: Networked Humanities
Jeff Rice and Brian McNely
Networked Disciplinarity
2 Provocation: On the Question of What a Networked Humanities Might Be
Jeffrey T. Grabill
3 A Natural History of Networks
Jeff Pruchnic
4 Reading in Slow Motion: Thinking with the Network
Jillian J. Sayre and James J. Brown, Jr.
5 Provocation: Networked History, Networked Humanities
Jim Ridolfo
6 Networked Asymmetry and Survivability in the Digital Humanities
Nate Kreuter
7 Provocation: Networked Humanities, Past and Present
Devoney Looser
Networked Materialisms
8 New Materialisms, Networks, and Humanities Research
Laurie Gries, Jenny Bay, Derek Mueller, and Nathaniel Rivers
9 Provocation: Teaching Networked Humanities through Interdisciplinary Projects
Paul Gestwicki
10 Ripple Effects: Toward a Topos of Deployment for Feminist Historiography in Rhetoric and Composition
Tarez Samra Graban
11 Provocation: “We have mult[i]ple nets to fit into”: Understanding Networked Claims
Clay Spinuzzi
12 Homeless Infrastructure
Casey Boyle
13 Provocation: Minding the Network: An Eco-logic for Networked Humanities
Kristie S. Fleckenstein
14 Provocation: We Are the Network: Creating Gravity in the Digital Humanities
Liza Potts
15 The Limitations of Choice: Toward A New Materialist Reading of “Mommy War” Rhetorics
Naomi Clark
16 Provocation: “Even if it’s just Writing Letters”: Networking Japanese Americans in World War II
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Networked Processes
17 Elaborating a Network: Rhetoric’s Relationship with Psychology’s Elaboration Likelihood Model and the Promise and Risks of Expanding It
Lars Söderlund
18 Provocation: Networked Humanities as a Creative Collaboration
Rudy McDaniel
19 Hacking the Humanities
John Jones
20 Three Theses for an Ontology of Networks
Levi R. Bryant
21 Provocation: Networked Research, Networked Ethics
Neil Baird and Bradley Dilger
22 Afterword: Notes Toward a Liberated Network Language
Byron Hawk
Contributors
Index

1 Introduction: Networked Humanities
Jeff Rice and Brian McNely
I n our contemporary environment of decimated state funding, administrative and bureaucratic entropy, attacks on the Humanities from local and national legislative bodies, and the concomitant burgeoning of the digital humanities, scholarly responses struggle to respond. There are endless defenses of the Humanities, and such defenses are even more exigent in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Such responses focus on traditional Humanities outcomes: critical thinking, questioning, interpretation, language usage, understanding different perspectives, and the ability to form an argument. These outcomes are, no doubt, goals of a Humanities-based education. On their own, however, they do not address what might be called the networked humanities, humanities-based work that does not reside i n one space or object of study but in the interactions—the network—of multiple sites of learning.
To ask what a networked humanities is or might be is to both shape and deconstruct a view of the world, and a way of living and working within it. It begs new research questions, new objects of scholarly study, new attention to the nature of the humanities in general. As the notion of a digital humanities takes shape and congeals, the authors in this collection explore the humanities and networks, and in some cases, the humanities as network. The approach of Networked Humanities is therefore both aligned with and potentially orthogonal to work in the digital humanities. This is because networks are both digital and not, just as humanistic pursuits are both digital and not. These questions currently exist at the periphery of digital humanities scholarship; this collection makes such questions central to our work as humanists, within and without the university. To that end, Networked Humanities is an intervention into the questions and ideas traditionally posed by the Humanities, but it does so at the level of the network.
Generally, digital humanities scholarship has focused on the computational, particularly regarding the study of literature or artistic practices. The computational, in turn, has offered the digital humanities alternative approaches to interpretation. Networked humanities , on the other hand, offer more open and inclusive terms for humanistic inquiry, ones not bound to interpretation or specific disciplinary focuses. Despite the presence of “network” in this volume’s title, the networked humanities, we contend, is not dependent on the computational. Instead, this volume is an intervention in digital humanities work as it proposes other objects and methods of study left out of traditional digital humanities conversations. As Clay Spinuzzi summarizes Bruno Latour’s work: “differences in quality are no longer what we’re investigating” (“Symmetry as a Methodological Move” 35). What is or is not the digital humanities (i.e., the degree of quality at stake when a body of study is incorporated into an approach) is not the focus of this volume; instead, the focus is on the networked spaces of inquiry, research, and pedagogy among a variety of digital humanities spaces and interactions.
For the past decade, as the digital humanities has gained prominence in English departments, information science, and library science, it has held to a strict, or narrow, disciplinary category instead of a more open network for the humanities—one that often fails to account for digital moments outside of that narrow scope. Pedagogy is one such moment. In 2012, for example, academic publications shared no shortage of the humanities’ declarations of concern over the rise of MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses). Stanford professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig’s course “Artificial Intelligence”—with 160,000 students enrolled—had sparked widespread interest and critique regarding the usage of digital environments for large-scale teaching. While digital education was not new to the humanities and other areas of study, d