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The Humanities in the Digital: Beyond Critical Digital Humanities

Autor Lorella Viola
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 mar 2023
This open access book challenges the contemporary relevance of the current model of knowledge production. It argues that the full digitisation of society sharply accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has added extreme complexity to the world, conclusively exposing the inadequacy of our current model of knowledge creation. Addressing many of the different ways in which reality has been transformed by technology – the pervasive adoption of big data, the fetishisation of algorithms and automation, and the digitalisation of education and research – Viola examines how the rigid conceptualisation in disciplines’ division and competition is complicit of promoting a narrative which has paired computational methods with exactness and neutrality whilst stigmatising consciousness and criticality as carriers of biases and inequality. Taking the humanities as a focal point, the author retraces schisms in the field between the humanities, the digital humanities and critical digital humanities; these are embedded, she argues, within old dichotomies: sciences vs humanities, digital vs non-digital and authentic vs non-authentic. Through the analysis of personal use cases and exploring a variety of applied contexts such as digital heritage practices, digital linguistic injustice, critical digital literacy and critical digital visualisation, the book shows a third way: knowledge creation in the digital.


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031169496
ISBN-10: 3031169492
Pagini: 173
Ilustrații: XXVI, 173 p. 18 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. The Humanities in the Digital.- Chapter 2. The Importance of Being Digital.- Chapter 3. The Opposite of Unsupervised.- Chapter 4. How Discrete.- Chapter 5. What the Graph.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Notă biografică

Lorella Viola is Research Associate in Linguistics and Digital Humanities at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg. Her research investigates the impact of the digital transformation of society on knowledge creation theory and practice and how power, latent assumptions and implicit ideologies are manifested through language and circulated in media and society.

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This open access book challenges the contemporary relevance of the current model of knowledge production. It argues that the full digitisation of society sharply accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has added extreme complexity to the world, conclusively exposing the inadequacy of our current model of knowledge creation. Addressing many of the different ways in which reality has been transformed by technology – the pervasive adoption of big data, the fetishisation of algorithms and automation, and the digitalisation of education and research – Viola examines how the rigid conceptualisation in disciplines’ division and competition is complicit of promoting a narrative which has paired computational methods with exactness and neutrality whilst stigmatising consciousness and criticality as carriers of biases and inequality. Taking the humanities as a focal point, the author retraces schisms in the field between the humanities, the digital humanities and critical digital humanities; theseare embedded, she argues, within old dichotomies: sciences vs humanities, digital vs non-digital and authentic vs non-authentic. Through the analysis of personal use cases and exploring a variety of applied contexts such as digital heritage practices, digital linguistic injustice, critical digital literacy and critical digital visualisation, the book shows a third way: knowledge creation in the digital. 
Lorella Viola is Research Associate in Linguistics and Digital Humanities at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg. Her research investigates the impact of the digital transformation of society on knowledge creation theory and practice and how power, latent assumptions and implicit ideologies are manifested through language and circulated in media and society.

Caracteristici

Addresses urgent debates at the foundations of digital knowledge production Encourages us to rethink the larger academic relevance of digital objects, data and algorithms Essential reading for academics, students and practitioners in digital studies This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access