Critical Digital Humanities

The Search for a Methodology

James E Dobson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2019
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08404-1 (ISBN)

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Can established humanities methods coexist with computational thinking? It is one of the major questions in humanities research today, as scholars increasingly adopt sophisticated data science for their work. James E. Dobson explores the opportunities and complications faced by humanists in this new era. Though the study and interpretation of texts alongside sophisticated computational tools can serve scholarship, these methods cannot replace existing frameworks. As Dobson shows, ideas of scientific validity cannot easily nor should be adapted for humanities research because digital humanities, unlike science, lack a leading-edge horizon charting the frontiers of inquiry. Instead, the methods of digital humanities require a constant rereading. At the same time, suspicious and critical readings of digital methodologies make it unwise for scholars to defer to computational methods. Humanists must examine the tools--including the assumptions that went into the codes and algorithms--and questions surrounding their own use of digital technology in research. Insightful and forward thinking, Critical Digital Humanities lays out a new path of humanistic inquiry that merges critical theory and computational science.

James E. Dobson is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Protocols, Methods, and Workflows: Digital Ways of Reading2. Can an Algorithm Be Disturbed? Machine Learning, Intrinsic Criticism, and the Digital Humanities3. Digital Historicism and the Historicity of Digital Texts4. The Cultural Significance of k-NNConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	11 black & white photographs, 5 charts
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	0-252-08404-7 / 0252084047
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08404-1 / 9780252084041
Zustand	Neuware