Understanding digital humanities / edited by David M. Berry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, David M. (David Michael)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital humanities.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

xviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : understanding the digital humanities / David M. Berry

An interpretation of digital humanities / Leighton Evans and Sian Rees

How we think : transforming power and digital technologies / N.Katherine Hayles

Digital methods : five challenges / Bernhard Rieder and Theo Röhle

Archives in media theory : material media archaeology and digital humanities / Jussi Parikka

Canonicalism and the computational turn / Caroline Basset

The esthetics of hidden things / Scott Dexter

The meaning and mining of legal texts / Mireille Hildebrandt

Have the humanities always been digital? : for an understanding of the 'digital humanities' in the context of originary technicity / Federica Frabetti

Present, not voting : digital humanities in the panopticon / Melissa Terras

Analysis tool or design methodology? : Is there an epistemology for patterns? / Dan Dixon

Do computers dream of cinema? : film data for computer analysis and visualization / Adelheid Heftberger

The feminist critique : mapping controversy in Wikipedia / Morgan Currie

How to compare one million images? / Lee Manovich

Cultures of formalisation : towards an encounter between humanities and computing / Joris Van Zundert, Smiljana Antonijevic, Anne Beaulieu, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Douwe Zeldenrust, and Tara L. Andrews

Transdisciplinarity and digital humanities : lessons learned from developing text-mining tools for textual analysis / Yu-wei Lin

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230292658

9780230292659

9780230292642

023029264X

OCLC:

701020028

Publisher Number:

99948280054