Title: The Digital Humanist
Subtitle: A Critical Inquiry
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.
Subjects: Information management, Digital humanities, Human-computer interaction, Humanities, Electronic information resources, Technological innovations, Sciences humaines numériques, COMPUTERS / Internet / General