Jackson’s Reviews > Understanding Digital Humanities > Status Update
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"'Human' is not a fixed concept but a construction constantly under challenge and revision. Although... one might characterize certain aspects of the digital humanities as posthuman, the shift should be understood contextually as part of a long history of the 'human' adapting to new technological possibilities and affordances. Technologically enabled transformations are nothing new."
— Feb 03, 2014 03:17AM
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Jackson
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'We can already see that projects that use particularly spectacular visualisation techniques are well-publicised in magazines and the blogosphere. Is there a danger of catering too much to short attention spans while at the same time cruising on technology's aura of objectivity?'
— Feb 08, 2014 07:35AM
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"The first wave of digital humanities work was quantitative, mobilising the search and retrieval powers of the database, automating corpus linguistics, stacking hypercards into critical arrays. The second wave is qualitative, interpretive, experiential, emotive, generative in character."
I want to point out the past tense vs. present tense usage here, which signifies we're in the 2nd wave. -J
— Feb 03, 2014 03:04AM
I want to point out the past tense vs. present tense usage here, which signifies we're in the 2nd wave. -J
Jackson
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Klocubar (2011) argues that mobile, accessible database technology creates epistemological agnosia akin to Hegel's observation that human rationality involves a suspension of the subjective relationship between human and the world. The agnosia is technologically induced - by having the world of knowledge at our fingertips we will miss the world itself.
— Feb 03, 2014 02:38AM
