Understanding digital humanities

Understanding digital humanities

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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: Introduction - How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; 'N.K.Hayles' - Cultural Analytics; 'L.Manovich' - Computing Fantasies:Psychologically Approaching Identity and Ideology in the Computational Age; 'P.Bloom' - Technologies of Representation: Images, Visualisations and Texts; 'A.Carusi' - Self-Organization, Zipf Laws and Historical Processes: Three Case Studies of Computer Assisted Historical Research; 'J.R.de Carvalho' - Is What Computation Counts What Counts?; 'T.Cheesman' - The Computational Turn: GIScience and the Holocaust; 'T.Cole & A.Giordano' - The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy on Wikipedia; 'M.Currie' - Toward a Poetics of Code; 'S.Dexter' - Analysis Tool or Design Methodology? Is There an Epistemological Basis for Patterns?; 'D.Dixon' - Have the Humanities Always Been Digital?: Towards an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity;' F.Frabetti' - From Data Mining in Digital Humanities to New Methods of Analysis of Narrative and Semantics; 'A.Genz & F.Murtagh' - A Cultural Analytics Based Approach to Polymath Artists: Witkacy Case Study; 'K.Hayes & M.Sredniawa' - Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation; 'A.Heftberger' - The Meaning and Mining of Legal Texts; 'M.Hildebrandt' - Computational Turn of a New Weltbild?; 'Y.Hui' - 'All Your Database Are Belong to Us': Aesthetics, Knowledge and Information Management; 'A.Klobucar' - Text Mining or Frame Analysis of Media Content; 'Y.Lin' - Digital Methods: Five Challenges; 'B.Rieder & T.Roehle'- Digital Problems/Digital Solutions; 'A.A.A.Saleh' - Cultures of Formalization - Towards an Encounter Between Humanities and Computing; 'J.Van Zundert & S.Antonijevic' - Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-29265-9
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 336
  • Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés