On Thursday, I’m giving a talk on Digital Humanities and Digital History to a group of new Public History graduate students. I’m assuming that they know little to nothing of digital humanities. So, I thought that I would summarize what digital humanities looks like as a practice when graphed against
Almost 60 years before the terms “big data” and “digital humanities” were in use, and before economist Thomas Piketty compiled and analyzed his enormous data set, one man pioneered the use of…
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Dr James O’Sullivan, a lecturer in digital arts and humanities at University College Cork, explains why institutions need to think very carefully about the demarcation between public and digital humanities, because while they are related, they are not necessarily the same thing. This is not a commentary on the definition, legitimacy, or future of digital […]
Controversial article argues digital humanities scholars are -- intentionally or not -- leading a "neoliberal takeover" of colleges and universities.
Language and literature scholars have embraced technology in their research, but can they win tenure on it?
The following is a talk I’ve revised over the past few years. It began with a post on “curricular incursion”, the ideas of which developed through a talk at DH2013 and two invited…
Stanford's Spatial History Project uses databases, ArcGIS, and other technological bells and whistles to visualize history that can't otherwise be easily told.
In the humanities, where pots of money tend to be smaller than in the sciences, a little can go a long way. It’s often not just the size of the grant ...
How can museums build vanguard collaborations and collective resources not only to aid art in their “pure” form as the artist intended but also to create new artwork in a digital culture?
Computer und Internet bestimmen zunehmend den Alltag. Hinter den bunten Nutzeroberflächen treiben Algorithmen ihr undurchschaubares Spiel. Deshalb ist es Zeit für eine „Kritik der digitalen Vernunft“, wie sie die Philosophin Sybille Krämer skizziert.
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Zentralisiert, standardisiert, europäisiert: Die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften überlegen, wie die Strukturen ihrer Forschung dem Wandel der Wissensordnung anzupassen sind.
The Third Sex, likely the world’s first magazine devoted to trans issues, circulated in the final years of the Weimar Republic.
It isn’t easy to be a citizen in 2018. We are told to watch out for bots and biased ...
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A new SDSU initiative incorporates traditional humanities curriculum and digital practices.
Humanists should critique the digital humanities, not embrace it, unless they want to sell their birthright for a mess of apps.
In a few decades, statistical analysis of literature has gone from crackpot theorising to cutting-edge research
Humanists should critique the digital humanities, not embrace it, unless they want to sell their birthright for a mess of apps.
Big Data und computerbasierte Analysemethoden finden längst in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften Anwendung. Über die Zukunft der Digital Humanities.
A focus on methods can currently be observed in all subfields of linguistics. Rarely, however, is a perspective taken that integrates these individual sub-areas. The book brings together the current discussion of methods and assembles contributions that move along the spectrum of ethnography, mixed methods, and digital humanities and are framed by method(olog)ic reflections that the contributors have undertaken together.
In der Literaturtheorie zeichnet sich eine Renaissance der Philologie ab. Ausdrücklich gelehrt wird neuerdings die Kunst, vom Gegenstand eines Textes abzusehen, um die sprachliche Form zu erfassen.
Die elektronische Erfassung von Sammlungen eröffnet neue Forschungsfelder. Für Geisteswissenschaftler birgt das völlig neue Chancen.
Digitalisierung macht Kulturerbe global verfügbar. Doch politische Zensur und die Macht von Google stehen dagegen. Ein Gastbeitrag.
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Big data literary critic Franco Moretti wants to study bad books, preferably without reading them
Jennifer Edmond vom Trinity College Dublin meint, Big Data kann von den Geisteswissenschaften profitieren – und umgekehrt
Den Digital Humanities fehlt ein sinnstiftendes Manifest: Es gilt, die Lücke zwischen Datensammlern und Gelehrten zu schließen. Ein Gastbeitrag.
