The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-49943-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4653 g

This book provides new critical and methodological approaches to digital humanities, intended to guide technical development as well as critical analysis. Informed by the history of technology and culture and new perspectives on modernity, Smithies grounds his claims in the engineered nature of computing devices and their complex entanglement with our communities, our scholarly traditions, and our sense of self. The distorting mentalité of the digital modern informs our attitudes to computers and computationally intensive research, leading scholars to reject articulations of meaning that admit the interdependence of humans and the complex socio-technological systems we are embedded in. By framing digital humanities with the digital modern, researchers can rebuild our relationship to technical development, and seek perspectives that unite practical and critical activity. This requires close attention to the cyber-infrastructures that inform our research, the software-intensive methods that are producing new knowledge, and the ethical issues implicit in the production of digital humanities tools and methods. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of technology with humanities research, and the future of digital humanities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smithies, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Digital Modern.- 3. Computation and Crisis.- 4. AI, DH, and the Automation of Labour.- 5. Towards a Systems Analysis of the Humanities.- 6. Software Intensive Humanities.- 7. The Ethics of Production.- 8. Conclusion: The Culture of the Digital Humanities.-

Über Autor(innen)

James Smithies is Director of King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Associate Director of the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.