Understanding digital humanities /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:	xviii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Digital humanities Digital media. Digital media. Digital humanities.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8773336

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Other authors / contributors:	Berry, David M. (David Michael)
ISBN:	9780230292659 (pbk.) 0230292658 (pbk.) 9780230292642 023029264X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 practicalchallenges that computation raises for these disciplines"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities
2. An Interpretation of Digital Humanities
3. How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies
4. Digital Methods: Five Challenges
5. Archives in Media Theory: Material Media Archaeology and Digital Humanities
6. Canonicalism and the Computational Turn
7. The Esthetics of Hidden Things
8. The Meaning and the Mining of Legal Texts
9. Have the Humanities Always Been Digital? For an Understanding of the 'Digital Humanities' in the Context of Originary Technicity
10. Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon
11. Analysis Tool or Research Methodology: Is There an Epistemology for Patterns?
12. Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation
13. The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia
14. How to Compare One Million Images?
15. Cultures of Formalisation: Towards an Encounter between Humanities and Computing
16. Transdisciplinarity and Digital Humanities: Lessons Learned from Developing Text-Mining Tools for Textual Analysis
Index

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