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Výzvy 2021: Súčasné výzvy vo vyučovaní jazykov: Ako ďalej?, 2021

One of the major topics under investigation in the field of humanities nowadays is undoubtedly the concept of digital humanities. Suddenly, we see that many courses, departments, projects, and research groups have emerged focused on the interaction between the computer and literature, art, and education. On the one hand, this attention is natural and well deserved, since the extent to which our life has become "digitised" is enormous. On the other hand, the focus on the digital aspects of our discourses, everyday or professional, seems to be overrated. It is understandable that, at some time, "digital humanities" was something new and exciting, but since that time, it has lost its novelty and become part of normalcy. So, to analyse the position of digital humanities in contemporary education may, in fact, be an ill-posed problem since most of humanities research at present is naturally digital. As Earhart argues, "Maybe the term is just a placeholder, and the day is not far off when people won't feel the need to make a distinction between the humanities and the digital humanities" (Howard, qtd. in Earhart, 2018, p. 1). My aim in this article is then not to point to new and exciting aspects of the digitisation in literary education, to list new ways of using an ever-growing number of new applications, social networks, or portals, and discuss how they could be pragmatically put to use in the classroom, but to reflect on the feasibility of making a distinction between the digital and non-digital in the most essential area of literary study, that is, in the interpretation of literary works. To present it as clearly as possible, I cannot avoid, despite what has been said above, going into some analysis of the concept and its short history, including its different manifestations in humanities research.

Controversies around the Digital Humanities: An Agenda

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 2012

Observations on the current stage of the Digital Humanities and their environment identify four dangers: (1) The focus on infrastructures for the Digital Humanities may obscure that research ultimately is driven by analytical methods and tools, not just by the provision of data or publishing tools. (2) Information technology can support the Humanities in many forms and national traditions. That textual analysis is much discussed right now, should not hide the view of a broader disciplinary field. (3) The mobile revolution looming may once again lead to a repetition of highly destructive processes observed at the PC and the internet revolutions. (4) The Digital Humanities may have to take a much stronger part in the development, not only the reception, of technology. – A series of concrete and controversial questions, which allow the discussion of some of these trends, is derived. 1. Background and motivation for a discussion of the Digital Humanities “Computing in the Humanities” ha...

The Digital Humanities

2015

The Digital Humanities is a comprehensive introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to conduct research, organize materials, analyze and publish fi ndings. It summarizes the turn toward the digital that is reinventing every aspect of the humanities among scholars, libraries, publishers, administrators and the public. Beginning with some defi nitions and a brief historical survey of the humanities, the book examines how humanists work, what they study, how humanists and their research have been impacted by the digital and how, in turn, they shape it. It surveys digital humanities tools and their functions, the digital humanists' environments and the outcomes and reception of their work. The book pays particular attention to both theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations for embarking on digital humanities projects. It places the digital humanities fi rmly within the historical traditions of the humanities and in the contexts of current academic and scholarly life.

Digital literary and cultural studies: the state of the art and perspectives

Over the last decade Digital Humanities has ceased being a "niche discipline", becoming instead a major phenomenon in academic and cultural debates. According to numerous authorities, it represents one of the few points of resistance in the general decline of the humanities: Digital Humanities represents a major expansion of the purview of the humanities, precisely because it brings the values, representational and interpretive practices, meaning-making strategies, complexities, and ambiguities of being human into every realm of experience and knowledge of the world. It is a global, trans-historical, and transmedia approach to knowledge and meaning-making. (Burdick, Drucker, Lunenfeld, Presner, Schnapp 2012: vii) The rapid spread of the term "Digital Humanities", rather than the more rigorous and older "Humanities Computing", indicates this success on a linguistic level, and shows the ambition of this vast and all-encompassing field of study, whose internal borders within the human sciences are becoming increasingly blurred.

Digital Literary and Cultural Studies: State of the Art and Perspectives

Between, 2014

A Genealogy of Digital Humanities

Purpose – Reconstructing the genealogy of digital humanities by examining digital humanities projects and evaluative writings. Identifies core arguments related to disciplinary transformation and pedagogy in the humanities fields. Considers knowledge production and transformation of a general humanistic attitude (the Humanities Program) in relation to digital tools. Examines its perceived impact on disciplinary development, pedagogy, and forms of digital text. Design/methodology/approach – Presents a literature-based conceptual analysis of distinct and diverse aspects of the enterprise of digital humanities, by identifying their main foci together with implications of these preoccupations within larger discourses. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of 45 exemplary texts published from 1980s to date, and 14 exemplary projects and initiatives. Analysis highlights several concepts with their underlying assumptions. Findings – The perceived epistemological advantage of digital technology for new forms of reasoning, community development has produced theoretical frameworks and shaped practical directions. Identified three distinct formations characterized by associated digital artifacts, prominent opinion leaders, foundational projects, and document forms (morphs). Research limitations/implications – Research data is not comprehensive. Selected texts and projects are exemplary. Results and findings are relevant for the English-language context and limited by a selective corpus. Keywords – Information science, Humanities computing, Digital humanities. Originality/value – Outlines historical trajectory of digital humanities and the formative stages of development from the discourses of that evolving field. Identifies constructions of technological advantage with implications for knowledge production in writing of humanities scholars. Contributes to practitioner awareness of the history of digital humanities practice. Paper type – Research paper

Digital Humanities-An Introduction

The use of computers to analyze research data in arts and humanities disciplines such as literature and history dates back to the 1940s. The digital humanities also referred to as humanities computing, maybe a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and therefore the disciplines of the humanities. It is a study that is methodological naturally and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of data in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines during which they're used, and what these disciplines need to contribute to our knowledge of computing. This paper elaborates the concept of Digital Humanities, its origin and development. Introduction:

Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research

Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research, 2020

First and foremost, the editor of this volume would like to thank the European Science Foundation for making possible both the original working group along with its meetings, and this open access publication. The NeDiMAH network continues to be a point of reference for scholars who are exploring not just how to use digital methods in the humanities and what it means to do this, but also what is at stake in the digital turn for our diverse and yet interconnected disciplines. It would be remiss not to also thank the participants in the NeDiMAH events: their contributions to that early discussion are woven into the fabric of this volume and the issues it pursues. In particular, I would like to thank the Zadar meeting group:

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