When Texts of Study are Audio Files
Tanya Clement · 2015
In digital humanities, infrastructure, resource, and tool production has primarily been centered on the examination, teaching, publication, and dissemination of textual and visual cultural artifacts. It is a typical digital humanities problem: without a better understanding of what “deep” or “close” listening entails, we cannot produce tools that afford, enhance, or dismantle and question such activities; yet, because we lack the models that proliferate work with text and images, we struggle to imagine how to describe access to sound and the research or teaching with sound we might hope to engage. This chapter surveys current critical practices and theory with sound and suggests that digital humanities is uniquely poised to produce models, theories, tools, pedagogies – humanities information infrastructure – for sound that are accessible, in use, and generated and supported on a wide scale.