Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2011, Reviews Featured Excerpts
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“The debates around the role of ‘theory’ in digital humanities are debates about the relationship between saying and doing.”
“The Real Faces of White Australia”
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“Modern humanities scholarship is a direct engagement with a deracinated, Google-ised, Wikipedia-ised, electronic text.”
The last ten years have seen the development of what looks like a coherent format for the publication of inherited texts online – in particular, ‘books’. The project of putting billions of words of keyword searchable text is now nearing completion (at least in a Western context); and the hard intellectual work that went into this project is now done.
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Data seems to be the word of the moment for scholarship. The National Endowment for the Humanities and a range of other funders are inviting scholars to “dig data” in their “Digging into Data” grant program.
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