On the digital humanities

• Verfasst von: Ramsay, Stephen [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: On the digital humanities
• Titelzusatz: essays and provocations
• Verf.angabe: Stephen Ramsay
• Verlagsort: Minneapolis ; London
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xiv, 186 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1501-8
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1500-1
• Schlagwörter: (s)Digital Humanities
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Ramsay, Stephen, 19XX - : On the digital humanities. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 186 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: AK 54350
• Sach-SW: COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
• Sach-SW: Digital- und Informationstechnologien: soziale und ethische Aspekte
• Sach-SW: EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
• Sach-SW: Ethical & social aspects of IT
• Sach-SW: Media studies
• Sach-SW: Medienwissenschaften
• Sach-SW: Philosophy & theory of education
• Sach-SW: Pädagogik: Theorie und Philosophie
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• K10plus-PPN: 1851711953

Abstract

A witty and incisive exploration of the philosophical conundrums that animate the digital humanities Since its inception, the digital humanities has been repeatedly attacked as a threat to the humanities: warnings from literary and cultural theorists of technology overtaking English departments and the mechanization of teaching have peppered popular media. Stephen Ramsay s On the Digital Humanities, a collection of essays spanning the personal to the polemic, is a spirited defense of the field of digital humanities. A founding figure in what was once known as humanities computing, Ramsay has a well-known and contentious relationship with what is now called the digital humanities (DH). Here Ramsay collects and updates his most influential and notorious essays and speeches from the past fifteen years, considering DH from an array of practical and theoretical perspectives. The essays pursue a broad variety of themes, including the nature of data and its place in more conventional notions of text and interpretation, the relationship between the constraints of computation and the more open-ended nature of the humanities, the positioning of practical skills and infrastructures in both research and pedagogical contexts, the status of DH as a program for political and social action, and personal reflections on the author s journey into the field as both a theorist and a technologist. These wide-ranging essays all center around one idea: that DH not forsake its connection to the humanities. While digital humanities may sound like an entirely new form of engagement with the artifacts of human culture, Ramsay argues that the field well reveals what is most essential to humanistic inquiry