Understanding Digital Humanities

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D. Berry
Springer, Feb 7, 2012 - Computers - 318 pages
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.
 

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Contents
Understanding the Digital Humanities
An Interpretation of Digital Humanities
Transforming Power and Digital
Five Challenges
The Estheticsof Hidden Things Scott Dexter
Mireille Hildebrandt 9 Have theHumanities AlwaysBeen Digital? For
Is There
Do ComputersDream of Cinema? Film DataforComputer Analysis andVisualisation Adelheid Heftberger
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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.