Understanding Digital HumanitiesD. Berry 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
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2 An Interpretation of Digital Humanities | 21 |
Transforming Power and Digital Technologies | 42 |
Five Challenges | 67 |
Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities | 85 |
6 Canonicalism and the Computational Turn | 105 |
7 The Esthetics of Hidden Things | 127 |
8 The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts | 145 |
Digital Humanities in the Panopticon | 172 |
Is There an Epistemology for Patterns? | 191 |
12 Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation | 210 |
Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia | 224 |
14 How to Compare One Million Images? | 249 |
Towards an Encounter between Humanities and Computing | 279 |
Lessons Learned from Developing TextMining Tools for Textual Analysis | 295 |
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9 Have the Humanities Always Been Digital? For an Understanding of the Digital Humanities in the Context of Originary Technicity | 161 |
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