Understanding digital humanities

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 scholarsdiscuss the theoretical and practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines. DAVID BERRY is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Swansea. He is the author of 'Understanding Softward in the Digital Age: Code, Mediation and Computation' (Palgrave, forthcoming)'Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source' (Pluto, 2008) and co-editor of 'Libre Culture' (Pygmalion Books, Canada, 2008). He has also published in journals such as Theory, Culture and Society, Critical Discourse Studies and The Journal of Internet Research. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; 'D.M.Berry - 'An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; 'L.Evans' &' S.Rees - 'How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; 'N.K.Hayles - 'Digital Methods: Five Challenges; 'B.Rieder' &' T.Röhle' - Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities; 'J.Parikka - 'Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; 'C.Bassett - 'The Esthetics of Hidden Things; 'S.Dexter' - The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts; 'M.Hildebrandt - 'Have the Humanities Always been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity; 'F.Frabetti - 'Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; 'M.Terras - 'Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?; 'D.Dixon - 'Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualization; 'A.Heftberger - 'The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; 'M.Currie - 'How to See One Million Images? A Computational Methodology for Visual Culture and Media Research; 'L.Manovich - 'Cultures of Formalization: Towards an Encounter Between Humanities and Computing; 'J.van Zundert, A.Antonijevic, A.Beaulieu, K.van Dalen-Oskam, D.Zeldenrust '& 'T.Andrews - 'Trans-disciplinarity and Digital Humanity: Lessons Learned from Developing Text Mining Tools for Textual Analysis; 'Y.Lin - 'Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29264-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés