Understanding digital humanities
Title:
Understanding digital humanities
Author:
Berry, David M. (David Michael)
ISBN:
9780230292659
9780230292642
Publication Information:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description:
xviii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents:
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
Abstract:
"Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the theoretical and practicalchallenges that computation raises for these disciplines"--Provided by publisher.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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