Understanding Digital Humanities [Paperback]

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.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.R?hle 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

'Berry and colleagues present us with several current and future trajectories of the digital humanities, both building and questioning its trends. Through the last 40 years of computational research, the humanities have appropriated and developed many techniques for doing their work computal“.