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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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Digital History. Ready made.


Peter Haber, Digital Past, Geschichtswissenschaft im Digitalen Zeitalter, München 2011 Review “What happens to the science of history in the digital age”, Peter Haber, University of Basel, wants to know. His concern is primarily about three things: The origins of … 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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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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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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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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