Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Digital Humanities 2023.11

The dan­ger­ous art of text min­ing: a method­ol­o­gy for dig­i­tal his­to­ry

The Dan­ger­ous Art of Text Min­ing cel­e­brates the bold new research now pos­si­ble because of text min­ing: the art of count­ing words over time. How­ev­er, this book also presents a warn­ing: with­out help from the human­i­ties, data sci­ence can dis­tort the past and lead to per­ilous errors. The book opens with a rogue’s gallery of errors, then tours the ground-break­ing analy­ses that have result­ed from col­lab­o­ra­tions between human­ists and data sci­en­tists. Jo Gul­di explores how text min­ing can give a glimpse of the chang­ing his­to­ry of the past — for exam­ple, how quick­ly Amer­i­cans for­got the his­to­ry of slav­ery. Tex­tu­al data can even prove who was respon­si­ble in Con­gress for silenc­ing envi­ron­men­tal­ism over recent decades. The book ends with an impas­sioned vision of what text min­ing in defence of democ­ra­cy would look like, and why human­ists need to be involved.
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On the dig­i­tal human­i­ties: essays and provo­ca­tions

A spir­it­ed defense of the field of dig­i­tal human­i­ties, On the Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties col­lects and updates Stephen Ramsay’s most influ­en­tial and noto­ri­ous essays and speech­es from the past fif­teen years, con­sid­er­ing DH from an array of prac­ti­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tives. These wide-rang­ing essays all cen­ter around one idea: that DH not for­sake its con­nec­tion to the human­i­ties.
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