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Understanding Digital Humanities / edited by D. Berry.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers and civilization.
- Communication.
- Application software.
- Digital humanities.
- Arts.
- Computer engineering.
- Computer networks.
- Computers and Society.
- Media and Communication.
- Computer and Information Systems Applications.
- Digital Humanities.
- Computer Engineering and Networks.
- Local Subjects:
- Computers and Society.
- Media and Communication.
- Computer and Information Systems Applications.
- Digital Humanities.
- Arts.
- Computer Engineering and Networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; 2 An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; 3 How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; 4 Digital Methods: Five Challenges; 5 Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities; 6 Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; 7 The Esthetics of Hidden Things; 8 The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts
- 9 Have the Humanities Always Been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity10 Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; 11 Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?; 12 Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation; 13 The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; 14 How to Compare One Million Images?; 15 Cultures of Formalisation: Towards an Encounter between Humanities and Computing
- 16 Transdisciplinarity and Digital Humanities: Lessons Learned from Developing Text-Mining Tools for Textual AnalysisIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- print version
- ISBN:
- 9786613613028
- 128058324X
- 9780230371934
- 0230371930
- OCLC:
- 778696962
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