scholarly journals Digital humanities, digital methods, digital history, and digital outputs: History writing and the digital revolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e12492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital Methods

scholarly journals Towards Digital Histories of Women’s Suffrage Movements: A Feminist Historian’s Journey to the World of Digital Humanities

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Heidi Kurvinen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Feminist Historian ◽  
Research Questions

This chapter discusses the various practical, epistemological and methodological issues of importance when a historical scholar with limited digital skills wants to take a step towards learning how to conduct digital analyses. As a feminist historian, the author combines this approach with a discussion of the relation of feminist research and digital humanities. In line with practice in feminist research, she uses a self-reflexive approach and asks how the increase in the understanding of digital methods influences research questions in feminist history. Do digital humanities tools transform the work as feminist historians? How can digital analyses develop the field of gender history in general and the history of feminism in particular? Can a scholar who has limited technological skills engage with an informed and critical discussion with digitised materials? In doing this the chapter provides an inside reflective history of the making of digital history.

scholarly journals Building Historical Knowledge Byte by Byte: Infrastructures and Data Management in Modern Scholarship

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Jessica Parland-von Essen
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Good Data ◽  
Provenance Data ◽  
Data Lifecycle ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
New Challenges

This chapter describes how the new emerging digital environment challenges historians’ existing training and practice of source criticism. In an environment with increasing amounts of digitized data and digital methods there are new requirements for historians to develop new skills as well as new more extensive provenance data. Historians are faced with new challenges regarding new increasing demands for transparency and open scholarship that has comes with the growth of digital humanities in general and with digital history in particular. The old demands that historical research has to be well documented and reproducible has to be adapted to the promises and pitfalls of the new digital environment which especially means developing and adapting new standards and practices for what counts as good data management. The study discusses how the FAIR data principles can offer valuable guidance, but also how they cannot be implemented without supporting services that take into account different types of data and the data lifecycle.

scholarly journals HISTÓRIA DIGITAL, SOCIOLOGIA DIGITAL E HUMANIDADES DIGITAIS: Algumas questões metodológicas

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Helyom Viana Telles
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
Digital Methods

O artigo discute o conceito de Digital e a constituição do campo das Humanidades Digitais, destacando alguns problemas específicos inerentes à Sociologia, Antropologia e Historiografia. O artigo explicita a polêmica em torno do conceito de digital e pontua algumas questões metodológicas relevantes para a construção da objetividade científica no uso dos métodos digitais no campo da Historiografia e das Humanidades Digitais. PALAVRAS-CHAVES: História Digital, Humanidades Digitais, Sociologia Digital.     ABSTRACT The article discusses the concept of Digital and the constitution of the field of Digital Humanities, highlighting some specific problem sinherent in Sociology, Anthropology and Historiography. The article explores the controversy surrounding the concept of digital and points out some methodological issues relevantto the construction of scientific objectivity in the use of digital methods in the field of Historiography and Digital Humanities.   KEYWORDS: Digital History, Digital Humanities, Digital Sociology.     RESUMEN El artículo discute el concepto de Digital y la constitución del campo de las Humanidades Digitales, destacando algunos problemas específicos inherentes a la Sociología, Antropología y Historiografía. El artículo explicita la polémica en torno al concepto de digital y puntualiza algunas cuestiones metodológicas relevantes para la construcción de la objetividad científica en el uso de los métodos digitales en el campo de la Historiografía y de las Humanidades Digitales.   PALABRAS CLAVES: Historia Digital, Humanidades Digitales, Sociología Digital.

scholarly journals Crowdsourcing digital history online

HISTOREIN ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despoina Valatsou
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Digital History

Digital history, among other things, offers the possibility for people to collaborate and work together on historical projects online. The notion of <em>crowdsourcing</em> is essential in this process, as well as in the theoretical study and approach of the field of digital humanities.

DIGITAL PHILOSOPHY

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Matthew N. O. Sadiku ◽  
Mahamadou Tembely ◽  
Sarhan M. Musa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital Philosophy

The digital revolution has had profound effects on the society in general and on philosophy in particular. Digital philosophy is part of the emerging field of digital humanities.  It is transforming some of previously unquestioned philosophical concepts of belief, experience, knowledge, intelligence, cognition, value, truth, reality, and responsibility, and privacy. This paper provides a brief introduction into digital philosophy.

The Future of ‘Digital Research'

2022 ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Costantino Cipolla
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
New Era ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
The Times ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

Sociology is a discipline inevitably based on interpretative categories of social reality derived from a specific historical phase. In a period that is increasingly defined as a new era or digital society, can sociological knowledge not be upset by this overload of changes of every kind and nature? And can these changes not involve all identity components of sociology, namely theory, research, and the usability of its knowledge? Given this, it seems rather evident that this volume is the sign of the times and testify the variety and flexibility of digital methods. The author limits to dealing schematically with two methodological components that are constitutive of the digital revolution: the shift from the traditional and glorious ethnography to the new and emerging netnography, especially as regards the qualitative side, and, on the more properly quantitative side, the overwhelming and boundless spread of big data. A brief and selective description of these “transitions” will be complemented by a thoughtful evaluation of their potential for the future in the peculiar field of inquiry.

scholarly journals Guest Editor's Introduction: Digital Methods and Tools for Historical Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Alves
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Methodological Approaches

As an introduction to a series of articles focused on the exploration of particular tools and/or methods to bring together digital technology and historical research, the aim of this paper is mainly to highlight and discuss in what measure those methodological approaches can contribute to improve analytical and interpretative capabilities available to historians. In a moment when the digital world present us with an ever-increasing variety of tools to perform extraction, analysis and visualization of large amounts of text, we thought it would be relevant to bring the digital closer to the vast historical academic community. More than repeating an idea of digital revolution introduced in the historical research, something recurring in the literature since the 1980s, the aim was to show the validity and usefulness of using digital tools and methods, as another set of highly relevant tools that the historians should consider. For this several case studies were used, combining the exploration of specific themes of historical knowledge and the development or discussion of digital methodologies, in order to highlight some changes and challenges that, in our opinion, are already affecting the historians’ work, such as a greater focus given to interdisciplinarity and collaborative work, and a need for the form of communication of historical knowledge to become more interactive.

scholarly journals MAKING HISTORY ONLINE

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 75-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Hitchcock ◽  
Robert Shoemaker
Keyword(s):  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Academic History ◽  
New Public ◽  
Unintended Effect ◽  
Present Complex ◽  
Access Policies

ABSTRACTThis article considers the implications of recent innovations in digital history for the relationship between the academy and the public. It argues that while digitisation and the internet have attracted large new audiences, academic historians have been reluctant to engage with this new public. We suggest that recent innovations in academic digital history, such as the highly technocratic ‘Culturomics’ movement, have had the unintended effect of driving a wedge between higher education and the wider public. Similarly, academic history writing has been slow to embrace the possibilities of the internet as a means of dissemination and engagement; and academic publishing has moved even more reluctantly. Despite these issues, this article argues that the internet offers real opportunities for bridging the divide between the academy and a wider audience. Through non-traditional forms of publication such as blogging; through Open Access policies; and through new forms of visualisation of complex data, the digital and online allow us to present complex history to a wider audience. We conclude that historians need to embrace the ‘affordances’ and ‘disruptions’ posed by the internet to render the discipline more open and democratically accessible.

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