Gary Hall (2011) THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES BEYOND COMPUTING: A POSTSCRIPT. Special issue of Culture Machine, Vol 12.
In this paper, Hall provides some forward thinking on the use of digital media technology in the field of Humanities and Sociology. There are a few key terms emerged from this paper that might be useful to understand much of the research activities (including the use of social media formats: Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and website) our project has undertaken. Hence, I have enlisted them below and they maybe taken to situate the research activities in this project wherever appropriate:
Digital Humanities
“The digital humanities can be broadly understood as embracing all those scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology, and being engaged in processes of digital media production, practice and analysis. Such activities may include developing new media theory, creating interactive electronic archives and literature, building online databases and wikis, producing virtual art galleries and museums, or exploring how various technologies reshape teaching and research.” (pp. 1)
Computational Turn in the Humanities
“This is the so-called ‘computational turn’ in the humanities. The later term has been adopted to refer to the process whereby techniques and methodologies drawn from computer science and related fields–interactive information visualisation, statistical data analysis, science imaging, image processing, network analysis, data management, manipulation and mining—are being increasingly used to produce new ways of approaching and understanding texts in the humanities.” (pp. 1)
References in Hall’s paper includes:
(2010) ‘How Do You Define Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities?’, Tapor, http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/How_do_you_defin e_Humanities_Computing_/_Digital_Humanities%3F.
Berry, D. M. (2011) ‘Digital Humanities: First, Second and Third Wave’, StunLaw: A Critical Review of Politics, Arts and Technology, January 14. http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2011/01/digital- humanities-first-second-and.html
Poster, M. (1990) The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Cambridge: Polity.
Svensson P. (2010) ‘The Landscape of Digital Humanities’, Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 4 no. 1 (Summer): http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000080/000080.html
