[ecrea] New Book: Understanding Digital Humanities

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=493310

The application of new computational techniques and 
visualisation technologies in arts and humanities are resulting in fresh 
approaches and methodologies for the study of new and traditional 
corpora. This ‘computational turn’ takes the methods and techniques from 
computer science to create innovative means of close and distant 
reading. This book discusses the implications and applications of 
‘digital humanities’ and the questions raised when using algorithmic 
techniques. Key researchers in the field provide a comprehensive 
introduction to important debates surrounding issues such as the 
contrast between narrative versus database, pattern-matching versus 
hermeneutics, and the statistical paradigm versus the data mining 
paradigm. Also discussed are the new forms of collaboration within arts 
and humanities that are raised through modular research teams and new 
organisational structures, ‘big humanities’, as well as techniques for 
interdisciplinary collaboration.

*Contents*

Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities; D.M.Berry
  2. An Interpretation of Digital Humanities; L.Evans & S.Rees
  3. How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies; N.K.Hayles
  4. Digital Methods: Five Challenges; B.Rieder & T.Röhle
  5. Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital
     Humanities; J.Parikka
  6. Canonicalism and the Computational Turn; C.Bassett
  7. The Esthetics of Hidden Things; S.Dexter
  8. The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts; M.Hildebrandt
  9. Have the Humanities Always been Digital? For an Understanding of
     the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of
     Originary Technicity; F.Frabetti
 10. Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon; M.Terras
 11. Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology
     for Patterns?; D.Dixon
 12. Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and
     Visualization; A.Heftberger
 13. The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia; M.Currie
 14. How to See One Million Images? A Computational Methodology for
     Visual Culture and Media Research; L.Manovich
 15. 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
 16. Trans-disciplinarity and Digital Humanity: Lessons Learned from
     Developing Text Mining Tools for Textual Analysis; Y.Lin

Index

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Dr. David M. Berry
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media
(Associate Professor in Media Studies)

Department of Political and Cultural Studies
Swansea University
Singleton Campus
Swansea
SA2 8PP

Tel: 01792 602633

http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/

Room: Room JC015, James Callaghan Building