Digital_Humanities

• Main Author: Burdick, Anne (auth)
• Other Authors: Drucker, Johanna (auth), Lunenfeld, Peter (auth), Presner, Todd (auth), Jeffrey, Schnapp (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2012
• Subjects: Advertising & society; Impact of science & technology on society; Media studies; Impact of science and technology on society
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century. Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question "Whatis digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry-including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation-to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital_Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship.