Understanding Digital Humanities [electronic resource] /
Berry, D.editor.
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 practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; 2 An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; 3 How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; 4 Digital Methods: Five Challenges; 5 Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities; 6 Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; 7 The Esthetics of Hidden Things; 8 The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts
9 Have the Humanities Always Been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity10 Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; 11 Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?; 12 Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation; 13 The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; 14 How to Compare One Million Images?; 15 Cultures of Formalisation: Towards an Encounter between Humanities and Computing
16 Transdisciplinarity and Digital Humanities: Lessons Learned from Developing Text-Mining Tools for Textual AnalysisIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.
Computers and civilization.
Communication.
Application software.
Humanities—Digital libraries.
Arts.
Computer organization.
Computers and Society.
Media Studies.
Computer Applications.
Digital Humanities.
Arts.
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.