Tag Archives: Documents

Digital_Humanities: THE Book!


Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital_Humanites, Cambridge 2012 A short cut and some remarks “Two decades ago, working with digital documents was the exception. Today it is the norm” – Anne Burdick and her … Continue reading

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Silent Revolution: The Algorithms and Hyper-modern Knowledge


Mercedes Bunz, Die stille Revolution, Wie Algorithmen Wissen, Arbeit, Öffentlichkeit und Politik verändern, ohne dabei viel Lärm zu machen, Berlin 2012 A short cut and some remarks Mercedes Bunz, former chief editor of Tagesspiegel online, believes that the digital revolution … Continue reading

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Empirical turn in the Humanities? The Frankfurter Allgemeine on the results of the Hamburg conference


Digital tools and methods become more and more important in the Humanities. The Frankfurter Allgemeine, a leading journal in Germany, sees ”the end of the hermeneutical individual research” coming. The computer based processing of huge data bases allows researchers totaly new … Continue reading

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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 question of the presence in the Digital Humanities


Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Unsere breite Gegenwart, edition suhrkamp, 2010 Review with respect to digital humanities (presumably unexpected for H. U. Gumbrecht; see below) What does it mean for the writing of history, if documents with a simple click are present … Continue reading

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Foucault revisited for the Digital Humanities


Michel Foucault, L’archéologie du savoir, Gallimard, 1969 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) Also historians have succumbed to the temptations of structuralism. For quite some time now, they have not been working with events anymore, but with … Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Documents, Journalism and History


WikiLeaks und die Folgen, Die Hintergründe. Die Konsequenzen, Berlin 2011 Review with respect to Digital Humanities The scenario could be that of a spy novel: Hackers publish hundreds of thousands of secret and confidential documents of the US and other … Continue reading

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Manuel Schramm, Digitale Landschaften, Stuttgart 2009


Review with respect to digital humanities Historians have (re)discovered space as one of their issues. This has been manifested in the great response to the topic “borders” at the Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences 2010 in Basel or to the exhibition The … 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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Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences: Digital Humanities and Web 2.0


Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Digital Humanities and Web 2.0, Dossier, in: Bulletin, 1/2012, S. 29ff Review with respect to digital humanities The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences dedicates the first issue of its Bulletin 2012 … Continue reading

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Contemporary History in Digital Era: The Concerns of Kiran Klaus Patel


Kiran Klaus Patel, Zeitgeschichte im Digitalen Zeitalter, in: Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Heft 3, Juli 2011, Page 331ff. Review with respect to digital humanities Who is going to archive the text messages from German Chancellor Angela Merkel? The sources and their availability … 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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