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Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities
Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn
2016
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day.
By taking an oral history approach, this book explores questions like, among others, researchers’ earliest memories of encountering computers and the factors that subsequently prompted them to use the computer in Humanities research.
Computation and the Humanities will be an essential read for cultural and computing historians, digital humanists and those interested in developments like the digitisation of cultural heritage and artefacts.
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Keywords
- Computation and the Humanities
- Computer science
- Computers and Society
- Computing & information technology
- Digital Cultural Heritage
- Digital humanities
- history of computing
- human computer interaction
- Oral history
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
- thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science
- user interfaces
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20170-2web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-20170-2
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