Can I read Big Digital Humanities : Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital on EtoBox?

Big Digital Humanities : Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital by Patrik Svensson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Big Digital Humanities : Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital about?

Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about what did or didn't “count” as Digital Humanities work. Svensson's articles provided a widely sought after omnibus of Digital Humanities history, practice, and theory. They were informative and knowledgeable and tended to foreground reportage and explanation rather than utopianism or territorial contentiousness. In revising his original work for book publication, Svensson has responded to both subsequent feedback and new developments. Svensson's own unique perspective and special stake in the Digital Humanities conversation comes from his role as director of the HUMlab at Umeå University. HUMlab is a unique collaborative space and Digital Humanities center, which officially opened its doors in 2000. According to its own official description, the HUMlab is an open, creative studio environment where “students, researchers, artists, entrepreneurs and international guests come together to e

Who reads Big Digital Humanities : Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital?

Author

Patrik Svensson

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472121748

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Education, Computer Science