The Digital Humanist: A Critical Inquiry

The Digital Humanist: A Critical Inquiry / Domenico Fiormonte, Teresa Numerico & Francesca Tomasi ; translated from the Italian by Desmond Schmidt and Christopher Ferguson.

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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VerfasserIn:
Fiormonte, Domenico,
Tomasi, Francesca,
Numerico, Teresa,
TeilnehmendeR:
Rockwell, Geoffrey, 1959-
Ferguson, Christopher
Schmidt, Desmond,
Tomasi, Francesca,
Numerico, Teresa,
Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020
©2020
Year of Publication:2015
2020
Language:English
Italian
Physical Description:1 online resource (260 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Translation of: L'umanista digitale.
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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.

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