Understanding Digital Humanities

by David M. Berry (Editor)

Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.

Genres: Philosophy, Technology

336 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2011

Reviews

[Santino · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful and interesting. I'm about to start a module in Digital Literary Studies and this is the first book I've engaged with in preparation. I don't know enough to fully understand this text, but it has been good for me to read by a way of introducing ideas and concepts that, hopefully, will click when I start to study this area.

[Gerald Lucas · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good introduction to the concerns of ���digital humanities.��� Barry gives some history of the university and discusses how digital technologies will change knowledge, education, and intelligence particularly at an institutional level.

[Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the attention given to pedagogy, methodology, and relevancy to Humanities as a discipline. This book provides a lot good arguments for directions of Digital Humanities and where it comes up short presently.