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Rousseau Digital – The Philosophers Work accessible online


2012 is the year of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. infoclio.ch took this occassion to publish the work of the famous philosopher in its first reference edition in 17 volumes and nearly 9,000 pages. The texts are freely available on rousseauonline.ch for download in various formats (pdf, epub). They include … Continue reading

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The Book in the Digital Information Age


Michael Giesecke, Von den Mythen der Buchkultur zu den Visionen der Informationsgesellschaft, Frankfurt a.M., 2002 Review for the Digital Humanities What happens to the book in the digital information era? If there is one to know, it is Michael Giesecke, Professor … Continue reading

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Wolfgang Schmale: A Practice in Digital History


Wolfgang Schmale, Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft, Wien, Köln, Weimar, 2010 Review with respect to digital humanities Wolfgang Schmale, University of Vienna, wonders whether “digital media are historically powerful”. It struck him that digitization transforms space and time in “flowing, unbounded categories”. The … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities and Google: Ancient Places


Google has digitized around 15 million books  and supports researchers in their analysis 15 million books – that is around 10 percent of all books that have been published since Gutenberg. How can so much material be handled usefully? Historians … Continue reading

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We think: Charles Leadbeater and the Digital Humanities


Charles Leadbeater, We-think, Mass innovation, not mass production: The Power of Mass Creativity, London, 2009 (Updated Version) Review with respect to digital humanities Charles Leadbeater is an authority on creativity in organizations in the English-speaking world. In particular he worked … Continue reading

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