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Hermeneutica : computer-assisted interpretation in the humanities
\"With increasing interest being shown in participatory research models, whether it be Wikipedia, World of Warcraft, participatory writing (like Montfort et al's 10 Print or Laurel et al's Design Research) or the more traditional communal research cultures of the arts collective or engineering lab, the Humanities is increasingly relying on computational tools to do the 'heavy lifting' necessary to process all of this information. Hermeneuti.ca, as its name implies, is about hermeneutical things--the computing tools of research that are usually hidden--how to use them, and how they are interpretative objects to be understood. Hermeneuti.ca is both a book and also a web site (http://hermeneuti.ca) that shows the interactive text analysis tools woven into the book. Essentially, Hermeneuti.ca is both a text about computer-assisted methods and a collection of analytical tools called Voyant (http://voyant-tools.org) that instantiate the authors ideas. While there is a definitely an emphasis on classic Digital Humanities work (corpus analysis, information retrieval, etc.), there is also a focus on the development of software as part of a project of knowledge that encompasses the idea of software as an active part of knowledge production that brings this book into the Software Studies series\"--Provided by publisher.
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A New Companion to Digital Humanities
This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship.
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Critical Digital Humanities : The Search for a Methodology
\"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, this book lays out a new path of humanistic inquiry that merges critical theory and computational science\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Virtual Knowledge
Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarly knowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use of digital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Does knowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distribution become digital? Issues of knowledge creation and dissemination go beyond the development and use of new computational tools. The book, which draws on work from the Virtual Knowledge Studio, brings together research on scientific practice, infrastructure, and technology. Focusing on issues of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors discuss who can be considered legitimate knowledge creators, the value of \"invisible\" labor, the role of data visualization in policy making, the visualization of uncertainty, the conceptualization of openness in scholarly communication, data floods in the social sciences, and how expectations about future research shape research practices. The contributors combine an appreciation of the transformative power of the virtual with a commitment to the empirical study of practice and use.The hardcover edition does not include a dust jacket.
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Research methods for creating and curating data in the digital humanities
The first volume to introduce the techniques and methods of reading digital material for researchDigital Humanities has become one of the new domains of academe at the interface of technological development, epistemological change, and methodological concerns. This volume explores how digital material might be read or utilized in research, whether that material is digitally born as fanfiction, for example, mostly is, or transposed from other sources. The volume asks questions such as what happens when text is transformed from printed into digital matter, and how that impacts on the methods we bring to bear on exploring that technologized matter, for example in the case of digital editions. Issues such as how to analyse visual material in digital archives or Twitter feeds, how to engage in data mining, what it means to undertake crowd-sourcing, big data, and what digital network analyses can tell us about online interactions are dealt with. This will give Humanities researchers ideas for doing digitally based research and also suggest ways of engaging with new digital research methods.Key featuresFirst volume centred on the navigation and interpretation of digital material as research methods in the HumanitiesUp-to-date analyses of issues and methods including big data, crowdsourcing, digital network analysis, working with digital additionsBased on actual research projects such as para-textual work with fanfiction, reading twitter, different kinds of distant and close readings
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Doing more digital humanities : open approaches to creation, growth, and development
\"As digital media, tools, and techniques continue to impact and advance the humanities, Doing More Digital Humanities provides practical information on how to do digital humanities work. This book offers: A comprehensive, practical guide to the digital humanities ; Accessible introductions, which in turn provide the grounding for the more advanced chapters within the book ; An overview of core competencies, to help research teams, administrators, and allied groups, make informed decisions about suitable collaborators, skills development, and workflow ; Guidance for individuals, collaborative teams, and academic managers who support digital humanities researchers ; Contextualized case studies, including examples of projects, tools, centres, labs, and research clusters ; Resources for starting digital humanities projects, including links to further readings, training materials and exercises, and resources beyond ; Additional augmented content that complements the guidance and case studies in Doing Digital Humanities\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Research methods for reading digital data in the digital humanities
The first volume centred on the navigation and interpretation of digital material as research methods in the Humanities.
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A new companion to digital humanities
\"A New Companion to Digital Humanities offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this dynamic and burgeoning field\"--Provided by publisher.
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Global Debates in the Digital Humanities
A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the
digital humanities
Often conceived of as an all-inclusive \"big tent,\" digital
humanities has in fact been troubled by a lack of perspectives
beyond Westernized and Anglophone contexts and assumptions. This
latest collection in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series
seeks to address this deficit in the field. Focused on thought and
work that has been underappreciated for linguistic, cultural, or
geopolitical reasons, contributors showcase alternative histories
and perspectives that detail the rise of the digital humanities in
the Global South and other \"invisible\" contexts and explore the
implications of a globally diverse digital humanities.
Advancing a vision of the digital humanities as a space where we
can reimagine basic questions about our cultural and historical
development, this volume challenges the field to undertake
innovation and reform.
Contributors: Maria José Afanador-Llach, U de los Andes, Bogotá;
Maira E. Álvarez, U of Houston; Purbasha Auddy, Jadavpur U; Diana
Barreto Ávila, U of British Columbia; Deepti Bharthur, IT for
Change; Sayan Bhattacharyya, Singapore U of Technology and Design;
Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya, National Research U Higher School of
Economics; Jing Chen, Nanjing U; Carlton Clark, Kazimieras
Simonavičius U, Vilnius; Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Erasmus U,
Rotterdam; Gimena del Rio Riande, Institute of Bibliographic
Research and Textual Criticism; Leonardo Foletto, U of São Paulo;
Rahul K. Gairola, Murdoch U; Sofia Gavrilova, Leibniz Institute for
Regional Geography; Andre Goodrich, North-West U; Anita Gurumurthy,
IT for Change; Aliz Horvath, Eötvös Loránd U; Igor Kim, Russian
Academy of Sciences; Inna Kizhner, Siberian Federal U; Cédric
Leterme, Tricontinental Center; Andres Lombana-Bermudez,
Pontificia, U Javeriana, Bogotá; Lev Manovich, City U of New York;
Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev; Maciej
Maryl, Polish Academy of Sciences; Nirmala Menon, Indian Institute
of Technology, Indore; Boris Orekhov, National Research U Higher
School of Economics; Ernesto Priego, U of London; Sylvia Fernández
Quintanilla, U of Kansas; Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega, U of Málaga;
Steffen Roth, U of Turku; Dibyadyuti Roy, Indian Institute of
Technology, Jodhpur; Maxim Rumyantsev, Siberian Federal U; Puthiya
Purayil Sneha, Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru; Juan
Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources; Melissa
Terras, U of Edinburgh; Ernesto Miranda Trigueros, U of the
Cloister of Sor Juana; Lik Hang Tsui, City U of Hong Kong; Tim
Unwin, U of London; Lei Zhang, U of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
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