Understanding digital humanities
By: edited by David M. Berry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230292659
Subjects: Digital media; COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Data processing; Humanities; COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; N.K.Hayles; title: Cultural Analytics; L.Manovich; title: Computing Fantasies: Psychologically Approaching Identity and Ideology in the Computational Age; P.Bloom; title: Technologies of Representation: Images, Visualisations and Texts; A.Carusi; title: Self-Organization, Zipf Laws and Historical Processes: Three Case Studies of Computer Assisted Historical Research; J.R.de Carvalho; title: Is What Computation Counts What Counts?; T.Cheesman; title: The Computational Turn: GIScience and the Holocaust; T.Cole & A.Giordano; title: The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy on Wikipedia; M.Currie; title: Toward a Poetics of Code; S.Dexter; title: Analysis Tool or Design Methodology? Is There an Epistemological Basis for Patterns?; D.Dixon; title: Have the Humanities Always Been Digital?: Towards an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity; F.Frabetti; title: From Data Mining in Digital Humanities to New Methods of Analysis of Narrative and Semantics; A.Genz & F.Murtagh; title: A Cultural Analytics Based Approach to Polymath Artists: Witkacy Case Study; K.Hayes & M.Sredniawa; title: Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation; A.Heftberger; title: The Meaning and Mining of Legal Texts; M.Hildebrandt; title: Computational Turn of a New Weltbild?; Y.Hui; title: "All Your Database Are Belong to Us": Aesthetics, Knowledge and Information Management; A.Klobucar; title: Text Mining or Frame Analysis ofMedia Content; Y.Lin; title: Digital Methods: Five Challenges; B.Rieder & T.Roehle; title: Digital Problems/Digital Solutions; A.A.A.Saleh; title: Cultures of Formalization - Towards an Encounter Between Humanities and Computing; J.Van Zundert & S.Antonijevic; title: Index.