The Digital Humanist
Subtitle: A Critical Inquiry
Publisher: Punctum Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: Umanista digitale
Format: Print book
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780692580448
Description: This book offers a critical introduction to the core technologies underlying the Internet from a humanistic perspective. It provides a cultural critique of computing technologies, by exploring the history of computing and examining issues related to writing, representing, archiving and searching. The book raises awareness of, and calls for, the digital humanities to address the challenges posed by the linguistic and cultural divides in computing, the clash between communication and control, and the biases inherent in networked technologies.
Notes: Illustrations, maps.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: Digital humanities at a political turn?
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: 15; label: Part I
title: The socio-historical roots
pagenum: 23; title: Technology and the humanities: a history of interaction
pagenum: 25; title: Internet, or the humanistic machine
pagenum: 49; label: Part II
title: Theoretical and practical dimensions
pagenum: 95; title: Writing and content production
pagenum: 97; title: Representing and archiving
pagenum: 129; title: Searching and organizing
pagenum: 169; title: Conclusions - DH in a global perspective
pagenum: 207