Humanities Computing

Author : W. McCarty
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 134951764X

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Humanities Computing by W. McCarty Pdf

Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice that is of and for as well as in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of the most challenging kind. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer in our intellectual life, and outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars across the humanities can contribute.

Author : Raymond George Siemens,David Moorman
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Digital humanities
ISBN : 9781552381724

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Mind Technologies by Raymond George Siemens,David Moorman Pdf

The computer-assisted tools, methodologies and structures through which those in the arts and humanities pursue their disciplines - the humanities 'mind technologies' - have come increasingly to the forefront in recent years. Arising in part from recent meetings between the Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH/COSH) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the volume is the first to document the internationally significant work of the Canadian academic community in this area. Addressing issues of funding, research and innovation, these articles foc.

Author : Steven E. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317286530

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Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing by Steven E. Jones Pdf

It’s the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to offer technical and financial support for the mechanized creation of a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Using Busa’s own papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, Jones illuminates this DH origin story. He examines relationships between the layers of hardware, software, human agents, culture, and history, and answers the question of how specific technologies afford and even constrain cultural practices, including in this case the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities.

Author : Domenico Fiormonte,Teresa Numerico,Francesca Tomasi
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : COMPUTERS
ISBN : 9780692580448

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The Digital Humanist by Domenico Fiormonte,Teresa Numerico,Francesca Tomasi Pdf

This book offers a critical introduction to the core technologies underlying the Internet from a humanistic perspective. It provides a cultural critique of computing technologies, by exploring the history of computing and examining issues related to writing, representing, archiving and searching. The book raises awareness of, and calls for, the digital humanities to address the challenges posed by the linguistic and cultural divides in computing, the clash between communication and control, and the biases inherent in networked technologies. A common problem with publications in the Digital Humanities is the dominance of the Anglo-American perspective. While seeking to take a broader view, the book attempts to show how cultural bias can become an obstacle to innovation both in the methodology and practice of the Digital Humanities. Its central point is that no technological instrument is culturally unbiased, and that all too often the geography that underlies technology coincides with the social and economic interests of its producers. The alternative proposed in the book is one of a world in which variation, contamination and decentralization are essential instruments for the production and transmission of digital knowledge. It is thus necessary not only to have spaces where DH scholars can interact (such as international conferences, THATCamps, forums and mailing lists), but also a genuine sharing of technological know-how and experience. "This is a truly exceptional work on the subject of the digital....Students and scholars new to the field of digital humanities will find in this book a gentle introduction to the field, which I cannot but think would be good and perhaps even inspirational for them....Its history of the development of machines and programs and communities bent on using computers to advance science and research merely sets the stage for an insightful analysis of the role of the digital in the way both scholars and everyday people communicate and conceive of themselves and "others" in written forms - from treatises to credit card transactions." Peter Shillingsburg The Digital Humanist is not simply a translation of the Italian book L'umanista digitale (il Mulino 2010), but a new version tailored to an international audience through the improvement and expansion of the sections on social, cultural and ethical problems of the most widely used methodologies, resources and applications. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Preface: Digital Humanities at a Political Turn? by Geoffrey Rockwell / PART I: The Socio-Historical Roots - Chap. 1: Technology and the Humanities: A History of Interaction - Chap. 2: Internet, or The Humanistic Machine / PART II: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions - Chap. 3: Writing and Content Production - Chap. 4: Representing and Archiving - Chap. 5: Searching and Organizing / Conclusions: DH in a Global Perspective

Author : Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405168069

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A Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth Pdf

This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.

Author : Julianne Nyhan,Andrew Flinn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319201702

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Computation and the Humanities by Julianne Nyhan,Andrew Flinn Pdf

This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day. By taking an oral history approach, this book explores questions like, among others, researchers’ earliest memories of encountering computers and the factors that subsequently prompted them to use the computer in Humanities research. Computation and the Humanities will be an essential read for cultural and computing historians, digital humanists and those interested in developments like the digitisation of cultural heritage and artefacts. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license

Author : Melissa Terras,Julianne Nyhan,Edward Vanhoutte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317153573

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Defining Digital Humanities by Melissa Terras,Julianne Nyhan,Edward Vanhoutte Pdf

Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term ’Digital Humanities’ is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We provide a historical overview of how the term ’Humanities Computing’ developed into the term ’Digital Humanities’, and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline. This text will be required reading for scholars and students who want to discover the history of Digital Humanities through its core writings, and for those who wish to understand the many possibilities that exist when trying to define Digital Humanities.

Author : Willard McCarty
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1403935041

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Humanities Computing by Willard McCarty Pdf

Humanities Computing provides a rationale for a computing practice in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions of the most challenging kind. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer in our intellectual life, and outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars across the humanities can contribute.

Author : Matthew N. O. Sadiku
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781665564199

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Emerging Social Computing Techniques by Matthew N. O. Sadiku Pdf

We are in the era of computing. Computing is experiencing its most exciting moments in history, permeating nearly all areas of human activities. Computing is any activity that involves using computers. It includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide range of purposes. It has resulted in deep changes in infrastructures and development practices of computing. It is a critically important, integral component of modern life. Advancement in technology has led to several computing schemes such as cloud computing, grid computing, green computing, DNA computing, soft computing, organic computing, etc. This book covers the most important 70 computing techniques. It is divided into three volumes to cover all the topics. This is the third volume and it has 21 chapters. The book is a friendly introduction to various computing techniques. The presentation is clear, succinct, and informal, without proofs or rigorous definitions. The book provides researchers, students, and professionals a comprehensive introduction, applications, benefits, and challenges for each computing technology.

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0252026853

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Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities by Orville Vernon Burton Pdf

CD-ROm contains: Multimedia that provides unique approach to various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities -- Links to related resources.

Author : Peter C. Patton,Renee A. Holoien
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015007262622

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Computing in the Humanities by Peter C. Patton,Renee A. Holoien Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Digital humanities
ISBN : IND:30000025487004

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Research in Humanities Computing by Anonim Pdf

Author : David M. Berry,Anders Fagerjord
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745697697

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Digital Humanities by David M. Berry,Anders Fagerjord Pdf

As the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities. In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, Google searches, digital archives, real-time streams and social networks, our use of culture has been changing dramatically. The digital humanities give us powerful theories, methods and tools for exploring new ways of being in a digital age. Berry and Fagerjord provide a compelling guide, exploring the history, intellectual work, key arguments and ideas of this emerging discipline. They also offer an important critique, suggesting ways in which the humanities can be enriched through computing, but also how cultural critique can transform the digital humanities. Digital Humanities will be an essential book for students and researchers in this new field but also related areas, such as media and communications, digital media, sociology, informatics, and the humanities more broadly.

Author : Patrik Svensson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472053063

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Big Digital Humanities by Patrik Svensson Pdf

Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about what did or didn’t “count” as Digital Humanities work. Svensson’s articles provided a widely sought after omnibus of Digital Humanities history, practice, and theory. They were informative and knowledgeable and tended to foreground reportage and explanation rather than utopianism or territorial contentiousness. In revising his original work for book publication, Svensson has responded to both subsequent feedback and new developments. Svensson’s own unique perspective and special stake in the Digital Humanities conversation comes from his role as director of the HUMlab at Umeå University. HUMlab is a unique collaborative space and Digital Humanities center, which officially opened its doors in 2000. According to its own official description, the HUMlab is an open, creative studio environment where “students, researchers, artists, entrepreneurs and international guests come together to engage in dialogue, experiment with technology, take on challenges and move scholarship forward.” It is this last element “moving scholarship forward” that Svensson argues is the real opportunity in what he terms the “big digital humanities,” or digital humanities as practiced in collaborative spaces like the HUMlab, and he is uniquely positioned to take an account of this evolving dimension of Digital Humanities practice.

Author : Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470999868

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A Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman,Ray Siemens,John Unsworth Pdf

This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.