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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255098103321

Autore

Smithies James

Titolo

The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern / / by James Smithies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

1-137-49944-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 268 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Communication

Humanities - Digital libraries

Culture

Technology

Social media

Media Studies

Digital Humanities

Culture and Technology

Social Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Digital Modern -- 3. Computation and Crisis -- 4. AI, DH, and the Automation of Labour -- 5. Towards a Systems Analysis of the Humanities -- 6. Software Intensive Humanities -- 7. The Ethics of Production -- 8. Conclusion: The Culture of the Digital Humanities -- .

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides new critical and methodological approaches to digital humanities, intended to guide technical development as well as critical analysis. Informed by the history of technology and culture and new perspectives on modernity, Smithies grounds his claims in the engineered nature of computing devices and their complex entanglement with our communities, our scholarly traditions, and our sense of self. The distorting mentalité of the digital modern informs our attitudes to computers and computationally intensive research, leading scholars to reject articulations of meaning that admit the interdependence of humans and the complex socio-technological



systems we are embedded in. By framing digital humanities with the digital modern, researchers can rebuild our relationship to technical development, and seek perspectives that unite practical and critical activity. This requires close attention to the cyber-infrastructures that inform our research, the software-intensive methods that are producing new knowledge, and the ethical issues implicit in the production of digital humanities tools and methods. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of technology with humanities research, and the future of digital humanities.