Computational Humanities

"Computational Humanities brings together leading experts to consider what counts as digital humanities scholarship, offering nuanced discourse centered around theories of knowledge and power. Providing case studies of collaborations between humanities-centered and computation-centered researchers, this volume shows that data and computation are as much about power, prestige, and precarity as they are about p-values"--

About the author

Lauren Tilton is E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond. She is coauthor of Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images.
 
David Mimno is associate professor of information science at Cornell University.
 
Jessica Marie Johnson is associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure. She is author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.

Summary

The first book to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Marie (EDT)/ Mimno Johnson, Jessica Marie Mimno Johnson
• Assisted by: Jessica Marie Johnson (Editor), David Mimno (Editor), Lauren Tilton (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781517915988
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1598-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Debates in the Digital Humanities
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science