Understanding Digital Humanities

By: David M. Berry (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 March 2012 | Edition Number 1

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The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts and Humanities are resulting in fresh approaches and methodologies for the study of new and traditional corpora. This ''computational turn'' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create innovative means of close and distant reading. This book discusses the implications and applications of ''Digital Humanities'' and the questions raised when using algorithmic techniques. Key researchers in the field provide a comprehensive introduction to important debates surrounding issues such as the contrast between narrative versus database, pattern-matching versus hermeneutics, and the statistical paradigm versus the data mining paradigm. Also discussed are the new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities that are raised through modular research teams and new organisational structures, as well as techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way.

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'Berry and colleagues present us with several current and future trajectories of the digital humanities, both building and questioning its trends. Through the last 40 years of computational research, the humanities have appropriated and developed many techniques for doing their work computationally, but only in the last ten years has the excess of computational capacity begun to bring central questions about the nature of the humanities to light. David Berry and his colleagues sit on the cutting edges of these questions, and their work will inform those debates for years to come.' - Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

'This book introduces and debates important questions regarding the use of digital technologies in numerous academic approaches in humanities and social sciences. These new media technologies are impacting across the disciplinary spectrum and pose challenges to traditional scholarship. Dr Berry's book gives us a timely insight into these various challenges and into the kinds of new 'digital humanities' that are emerging. Clearly written and providing a wide range of examples and case studies it is an important contribution to the growing literature on digital humanities.' - Christian De Cock, University of Essex, UK

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Introduction
How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies
Cultural Analytics
Computing Fantasies: Psychologically Approaching Identity and Ideology in the Computational Age
Technologies of Representation: Images, Visualisations and Texts
Self-Organization, Zipf Laws and Historical Processes: Three Case Studies of Computer Assisted Historical Research
Is What Computation Counts What Counts?
The Computational Turn: GIScience and the Holocaust
The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy on Wikipedia
Toward a Poetics of Code
Analysis Tool or Design Methodology? Is There an Epistemological Basis for Patterns?
Have the Humanities Always Been Digital?: Towards an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity
From Data Mining in Digital Humanities to New Methods of Analysis of Narrative and Semantics
A Cultural Analytics Based Approach to Polymath Artists: Witkacy Case Study
Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation
The Meaning and Mining of Legal Texts
Computational Turn of a New Weltbild?
"All Your Database Are Belong to Us": Aesthetics, Knowledge and Information Management
Text Mining or Frame Analysis of Media Content
Digital Methods: Five Challenges
Digital Problems/Digital Solutions
Cultures of Formalization - Towards an Encounter Between Humanities and Computing
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