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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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Twitter in the Humanities


Microblogging more and more is an issue in the Humanities, too. ScienceFeed on ResearchGate, for instance, has especially been developped for the exchange of information in research and science. But better known is Twitter. Mareike König from the DHI in Paris has published an interesting and … 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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La place dans les Humanités Digitales – Commentaire


Le billet “The place in the Digital Humanities” du 8 Juin 2012 (revue du livre Non-lieux de Marc Augé) me semble intéressant et je vous donnerai mon opinion, non pas exclusivement depuis la perspective des communautés des humanités numériques et … 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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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: The analog virtual Humanist


Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time, Harvard University Press, 1997 Review with respect to digital humanities (avant la lettre) A key feature of Digital History are hypertexts (to that, see the post on Wolfgang Schmale about … 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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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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We think History


We think History is about the creativity of communities and discusses participatory approaches for innovations in the humanities. The web seems to be the ideal platform to combine ideas and knowledge and thus create new things. Guido KollerMore Posts

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