Digital Methods in the Humanities - Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives

Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary communication between humanities scholars and computer scientists.
This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools. Problems and solutions with and for training tools as well as the adjustment of research practices are presented and discussed with an interdisciplinary focus.

About the author

Silke Schwandt (Dr. phil.) ist Professorin für Digital History an der Universität Bielefeld und forscht zu und mit Daten in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Gemeinsam mit Oliver Böhm-Kasper und Berenike Herrmann leitet sie die Community of Practice »Data Literacy« an der Universität Bielefeld.

Summary

Digital Humanities is a transformational endeavor that not only changes the perception, storage, and interpretation of information but also of research processes and questions. It also prompts new ways of interdisciplinary communication between humanities scholars and computer scientists.This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools. Problems and solutions with and for training tools as well as the adjustment of research practices are presented and discussed with an interdisciplinary focus.

Additional text

Besprochen in:https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de, 1 (2021)

Report

»Als eine Sammlung konkreter Berichte über die Verwendung digitaler Methoden ist dieses Buch eine gute Einführung. Hier können geisteswissenschaftliche ForscherInnen ohne direkte Erfahrungen mit digitalen Methoden inspirierende Beispiele finden.«

Oyvind Eide, Historische Zeitschrift, 316 (2023) 20230206

Product details

• Assisted by: Silk Schwandt (Editor), Silke Schwandt (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2020
• EAN: 9783837654196
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5419-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 21 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Illustrations: 15 SW-Abb., 32 Farbabb.
• Series: Digital Humanities Research; Digital Humanities Research (COL)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Allgemeines, Wissenschaft, Medienwissenschaften, Media, Sociology, Bielefeld University Press, Digital Media, Science, Social interaction, Philosophy, Knowledge, Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, Media History, Visualization, Corpus Analysis, Digital Methods, Philosophy & theory of education, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Culture and institutions, History, geographic treatment, biography, Data processing and computer science