Advancing digital humanities: research, methods, theories
Object category:
Druckschrift
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Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication:
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Date:
2014
Extent, illustration, format:
xii, 339 S.; Ill., Diagramme
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
"Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Sections cover digital methods, critical curation and research futures, with theoretical and practical chapters framed around key areas of activity including modelling collections, data-driven analysis, and thinking through building. These are linked through the concept of 'ambitious generosity,' a way of working to pursue large-scale research questions while supporting and enabling other research areas and approaches, both within and beyond the academy"--
"Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Sections cover digital methods, critical curation and research futures, with theoretical and practical chapters framed around key areas of activity including modelling collections, data-driven analysis, and thinking through building. These are linked through the concept of 'ambitious generosity,' a way of working to pursue large-scale research questions while supporting and enabling other research areas and approaches, both within and beyond the academy"--
"Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally. Sections cover digital methods, critical curation and research futures, with theoretical and practical chapters framed around key areas of activity including modelling collections, data-driven analysis, and thinking through building. These are linked through the concept of 'ambitious generosity,' a way of working to pursue large-scale research questions while supporting and enabling other research areas and approaches, both within and beyond the academy"--
Object text:
edited by Paul Longley Arthur (University of Western Sydney, Australia), Katherine Bode (Australian National University, Australia)
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-321
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-321
Contents:
1. Collecting Ourselves; 2. Exercises in Battology; 3. Stylometry of Dickens's Language : An Experiment with Random Forests; 4. Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance; 5. The Printers' Web; 6. Biographical Dictionaries in the Digital Era; PART II. MEDIA METHODS ; 7. Digital Methods in New Cinema History; 8. A "Big Data" Approach to Mapping the Australian Twittersphere; 9. iResearch : What Do Smart Phones Tell Us about the Digital Human?; 10. Screenshots as Virtual Photography : Cybernetics, Remediation, and Affect; PART III. CRITICAL CURATION ; 11. Rethinking Collections; 12. Methods and Canons; 13. Reading the Text, Walking the Terrain, Following the Map; 14. Doing the Sheep Good : Facilitating Engagement in Digital Humanities and Creative Arts Research; 15. Materialities of Software; PART IV. RESEARCH FUTURES ; 16. Digital Humanities : Is Bigger Better?; 17. Digital Humanities, or Digitally Based Humanities Research; 18. The Big Bang of Online Reading; 19. Getting There from Here : Remembering the Future of Digital Humanities
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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