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A Question of Digital Humanities
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Sneha PP
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Mar 20, 2014
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Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Digital Humanities
The emergence of digital humanities as a new field of interdisciplinary research enquiry has also seen growth in literature around the problem of its definition. This blog-post lays out some of the conceptual frameworks for the mapping exercise taken up by CIS to look at digital humanities in India.
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February 2014 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Feb 28, 2014
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Apr 07, 2014 07:27 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Digital Humanities,
Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter (February) for the year 2014:
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Confession in the Digital Age
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Sneha PP
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Apr 14, 2014
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Digital Humanities
The pervasive influence of digital technology, particularly the Internet in our lives today seems to have blurred the boundaries between the real and virtual, public and private. The perceived condition of anonymity made available by the digital sphere brings forth questions about identity and the self, and more importantly the conditions that have come together in creating a new notion of the private sphere. In this guest post Rimi Nandy reflects upon her research study on the trend of Facebook confessions in India, and its implications for questions of identity and self-representation.
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Animating the Archive – A Survey of Printed Digitized Materials in Bengali and their Use in Higher Education
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Sneha PP
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Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Digital Humanities
With the advent of digital technologies and the internet, archival practice has seen much change in its imagination and function, such as to extend its scope beyond preservation to a collaborative, open source model which facilitates new modes of knowledge production. In this blog post, Saidul Haque reflects upon his research project on a survey of digitized materials in Bengali, and some of the impediments to their use in higher education and research.
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Binary Code Invades the Universal Problematic
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Anirudh Sridhar
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May 26, 2014
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May 27, 2014 05:35 AM
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Digital Humanities
This essay looks at language as an archive and posits, through a reading of Foucault, Derrida, Saussure and Jakobson that the means of perceiving language in the digital has changed. Communication requires community and the large networks made possible by the binary code, an added layer of linguistic units, changes the way we are able to communicate online. Big Data has further changed the way we interact with language and the world. The way the machine perceives language, through selection rather than combination with access to the “complete” archive allows it to make predictions and decisions through mere correlation rather than the causational mode of science hitherto conducted by human beings.
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Data Lives of Humanities Text
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
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Research,
Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Humanities
The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
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CIS Featured in 'Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective' Report
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Oct 16, 2015
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Oct 16, 2015 07:43 AM
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Digital Scholarship,
Researchers at Work,
Learning,
Digital Humanities
This report, authored by Vivian Lewis, Lisa Spiro, Xuemao Wang, and Jon E. Cawthorne, sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable digital scholarship (DS) program. It focuses first on defining and describing the key domain knowledge, skills, competencies, and mindsets at some of the world’s most prominent digital scholarship programs. It then identifies the main strategies used to build this expertise, both formally and informally. The work is set in a global context, examining leading digital scholarship organizations in China, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The report team visited and spoke to us last year, as part of the study. Here are the Executive Summary and link to the final report.
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December 2013 Bulletin
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Prasad Krishna
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Dec 31, 2013
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Feb 25, 2014 01:51 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Digital Humanities,
Openness
Our newsletter for the month of December 2013 can be accessed below.
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The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward Snowden
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Sep 04, 2017
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Oct 04, 2017 11:02 AM
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Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Digital Humanities
What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the computer. Things however are a bit more complex than that, and the reason for choosing these two people to explain what the Digital Humanities are, is that in some sense they represent the origins and the present consequences of a certain way of thinking about computers. This essay by Dr. Domenico Fiormonte, lecturer in the Sociology of Communication and Culture in the Department of Political Sciences at University Roma Tre, was originally published in the Media Development journal.
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Alt needs to Shift
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Nishant Shah
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Nov 18, 2012
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Dec 14, 2012 10:03 AM
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Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
People maybe talking more online, but they all seem to be talking about the same kind of thing.
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