Title: The assumption of agency theory
Description: "The digital age is affecting all aspects of historical study, but much of the existing literature about history in the digital age can be alienating to the traditional historian who does not necessarily value or wish to embrace digital resources. History in the Digital Age takes a more conceptual look at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The printed copy, the traditional archive, and analogue research remain key constitute parts for most historians and for many will remain precious and esteemed over digital copies, but there is a real need for historians and students of history to seriously consider some of the conceptual and methodological challenges facing the field of historical enquiry as we enter the twenty-first century. Including international contributors from a variety of disciplines - History, English, Information Studies and Archivists – this book does not seek either to applaud or condemn digital technologies, but takes a more conceptual view of how the field of history is being changed by the digital age"--
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology, Agent (Philosophy), Artificial intelligence, Turing test, Philosophy, Critical realism, Historiography, Electronic records, Social change, Digital media, Study and teaching, Technological innovations, History, Anthropologie philosophique, Réalisme critique, Test de Turing, Intelligence artificielle, Philosophie, Movements, Humanism, Innovations, Histoire, Étude et enseignement, Archives électroniques, Médias numériques, General, Digitalisierung, Geschichtswissenschaft