Digital Humanities and networked digital media

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ID2653732
AuthorsNiels Ole Finnemann (0000-0002-1565-9823, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume30
Issue57
Publication date2014-12-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedieKultur Journal of media and communication research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0900-9671 • E-ISSN: 1901-9726
PublisherDet Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7146/mediekultur.v30i57.15592
OpenAlexW1488181692
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

This article discusses digital humanities and the growing diversity of digital media, digital materials and digital methods. The first section describes the humanities computing tradition formed around the interpretation of computation as a rule-based process connected to a concept of digital materials centred on the digitisation of non-digital, finite works, corpora and oeuvres. The second section discusses 'the big tent' of contemporary digital humanities. It is argued that there can be no unifying interpretation of digital humanities above the level of studying digital materials with the help of software-supported methods. This is so, in part, because of the complexity of the world and, in part, because digital media remain open to the projection of new epistemologies onto the functional architecture of these media. The third section discusses the heterogeneous character of digital materials and proposes that the study of digital materials should be established as a field in its own right

Art · Digital humanities · Digital media · Field (mathematics · Humanities · Interpretation (philosophy · Media studies · Multimedia · Process (computing · Section (typography · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Language and cultural evolution

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