The Digital Humanist: A Critical Inquiry /

This book offers a critical introduction to the core technologies underlying the Internet from a humanistic perspective. It provides a cultural critique of computing technologies, by exploring the history of computing and examining issues related to writing, representing, archiving and searching. Th...

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Main Authors: Fiormonte, Domenico (Author), Tomasi, Francesca (Author), Numerico, Teresa (Author)
Other Authors: Ferguson, Christopher (Christopher John) (Translator), Schmidt, Desmond (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Digital humanities at a political turn? / Geoffrey Rockwell
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The socio-historical roots
  • Technology and the humanities: a history of interaction
  • Internet, or the humanistic machine
  • Part II. Theoretical and practical dimensions
  • Writing and content production
  • Representing and archiving
  • Searching and organizing
  • Conclusions - DH in a global perspective.