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Critical digital humanities : the search for a methodology / James E. Dobson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 175 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252051111
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • AZ105 .C758 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Can an algorithm be disturbed? machine learning, intrinsic criticism, and the digital humanities -- Digital historicism and the historicity of digital texts -- The cultural significance of k-NN.
Subject: "Can established humanities methods coexist with computational thinking? It is one of the major questions in humanities research today, as scholars increasingly adopt sophisticated data science for their work. James E. Dobson explores the opportunities and complications faced by humanists in this new era. Though the study and interpretation of texts alongside sophisticated computational tools can serve scholarship, these methods cannot replace existing frameworks. As Dobson shows, ideas of scientific validity cannot easily nor should be adapted for humanities research because digital humanities, unlike science, lack a leading-edge horizon charting the frontiers of inquiry. Instead, the methods of digital humanities require a constant rereading. At the same time, suspicious and critical readings of digital methodologies make it unwise for scholars to defer to computational methods. Humanists must examine the tools--including the assumptions that went into the codes and algorithms--and questions surrounding their own use of digital technology in research. Insightful and forward thinking, this book lays out a new path of humanistic inquiry that merges critical theory and computational science"--
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"Can established humanities methods coexist with computational thinking? It is one of the major questions in humanities research today, as scholars increasingly adopt sophisticated data science for their work. James E. Dobson explores the opportunities and complications faced by humanists in this new era. Though the study and interpretation of texts alongside sophisticated computational tools can serve scholarship, these methods cannot replace existing frameworks. As Dobson shows, ideas of scientific validity cannot easily nor should be adapted for humanities research because digital humanities, unlike science, lack a leading-edge horizon charting the frontiers of inquiry. Instead, the methods of digital humanities require a constant rereading. At the same time, suspicious and critical readings of digital methodologies make it unwise for scholars to defer to computational methods. Humanists must examine the tools--including the assumptions that went into the codes and algorithms--and questions surrounding their own use of digital technology in research. Insightful and forward thinking, this book lays out a new path of humanistic inquiry that merges critical theory and computational science"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Protocols, methods, and workflows: digital ways of reading -- Can an algorithm be disturbed? machine learning, intrinsic criticism, and the digital humanities -- Digital historicism and the historicity of digital texts -- The cultural significance of k-NN.

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