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 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 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.

scholarly journals Pierre Lévy and the Future of Internet

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Massimo Lollini
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Digital Processing ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Humanities Computing ◽  
Semantic Metadata ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of

Semantic Metadata, Humanist Computing and Digital Humanities, opens with an important interview with Pierre Lévy that reconstructs the key moments of his philosophical vision of the internet, and the World Wide Web, up to his most recent and highly innovative proposal of the Information Economy MetaLanguage (IEML). In the “Interventions” section our journal features an important reflection by Dino Buzzetti on the distinction between Humanities Computing and Digital Humanities. The essay, originally published in Italian, critically supports the rationales behind Humanities Computing, characterized by a primary interest in methodological issues and their epistemological background. Buzzetti reconstructs accurately the history of this idea starting from the seminal works of scholars like Jean- Claude Gardin, who underlined the need for an awareness that computation applied to the humanities requires both representation (data structures), and information processing (algorithms). The three projects that are introduced in the third part of the journal respond differently to the theoretical solicitations presented in the first two sections. Following the categories of Pierre Lévy, we should say that, even if in a different way, all three projects are the product of a collective intelligence and at the same time contribute to expand the knowledge of a physical territory (in the case of Noisemakers! and of The Dialogues Bioregional Project) or of a literary tradition (in the case of #LauraSpeaks), making the process of their digital processing transparent.

scholarly journals Meten van verzuilde politiek in media

2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-91
Author(s):  
Huub Wijfjes ◽  
Gerrit Voerman ◽  
Patrick Bos
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Wordt Door ◽  
National Library ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Ideological Background ◽  
The One ◽  
Digital Newspaper ◽  
Political Realities

Sinds het einde van de vorige eeuw houden mediahistorici zich meer bezig met de manier waarop media-inhoud tot stand is gekomen en welke betekenis dat heeft gehad voor publieksgroepen en maatschappelijk-politieke realiteiten. In dit artikel wordt gepoogd deze benadering te combineren met digital history, aan de hand van het verzuilingsdebat en gebruik makend van de digitale krantencollectie van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Nederland. Enerzijds wordt onderzocht in hoeverre de veronderstelde ideologische gebondenheid van dagbladen in de jaren 1918-1967 zichtbaar wordt in de hoeveelheid kopij waarmee katholieke en sociaaldemocratische kranten over politiek hebben bericht en hoe verschillen daarin te verklaren zijn. Anderzijds wordt door het testen van kwantitatieve methoden uit de digital humanities geprobeerd een bijdrage te leveren aan digitale bronnenkritiek voor historisch onderzoek.Since the end of the last century media historians have taken an interest in researching the origins and development of media content and its significance for audiences and socio-political realities. This article seeks to combine this approach with digital history. It does so by focusing on the pillarisation debate and by utilising the digital newspaper collection of the National Library of the Netherlands. On the one hand, this article investigates to what extent the ideological background of the Catholic and Social Democratic press is actually reflected in the number of newspaper articles reporting on politics written between 1918-1967, and how any differences can be explained. On the other hand, by testing quantitative methods from the digital humanities, the article attempts to contribute to digital source criticism for historical research.

scholarly journals DIGITAL HUMANITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-136
Author(s):  
Dr. Nia Kurniasih, M.Hum.
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Public History ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Technological Developments

The Digital Humanities: A Primer for Students and Scholars is written by Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto as a resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students working in the field of the digital humanities. Overall, the well-structured book discusses how technological developments have presented scholars and students with new grounds to explore the methodology, pedagogy, and public history aspects of digital history. It tries to respond to such questions as whether the Digital Humanities (DH) is a field of study or a methodology, if it is a social science, a humanistic, or a technological discipline, or  whether it is the study of the interaction between computing and humanities.

Can an Algorithm Be Disturbed?

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-65
Author(s):  
James E. Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Learning Analysis

This chapter positions the use of machine learning within the digital humanities as part of a wider movement that nostalgically seeks to return literary criticism to the structuralist era, to a moment characterized by belief in systems, structure, and the transparency of language. While digital methods enable one to examine radically larger archives than those assembled in the past, a transformation that Matthew Jockers characterizes as a shift from micro to macroanalysis, the fundamental assumptions about texts and meaning implicit in these tools and in the criticism resulting from the use of these tools belong to a much earlier period of literary analysis. The author argues that the use of imported tools and procedures within literary and cultural criticism on the part of some digital humanists in the present is an attempt to separate methodology from interpretation. In the process, these critics have deemphasized the degree to which methodology participates in interpretation. The chapter closes by way of a return to the deconstructive critique of structuralism in order to highlight the ways in which numerous interpretive decisions are suppressed in the selection, encoding, and preprocessing of digitized textual sources for text mining and machine learning analysis.

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