Introduction : understanding the digital humanities / An interpretation of digital humanities / How we think : transforming power and digital technologies / Digital methods : five challenges / Archives in media theory : material media archaeology and digital humanities / Canonicalism and the computational turn / The esthetics of hidden things / The meaning and mining of legal texts / Have the humanities always been digital? : for an understanding of the 'digital humanities' in the context of originary technicity / Present, not voting : digital humanities in the panopticon / Analysis tool or design methodology? : Is there an epistemology for patterns? / Do computers dream of cinema? : film data for computer analysis and visualization / The feminist critique : mapping controversy in Wikipedia / How to compare one million images? / Cultures of formalisation : towards an encounter between humanities and computing / Transdisciplinarity and digital humanities : lessons learned from developing text-mining tools for textual analysis