Overview
- Connects digital humanities with the history, philosophy of technology, and engineering
- Pioneers the concept of the 'digital modern'
- Provides a critical and methodological perspective on digital humanities, grounded in the history and philosophy of computing
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Reviews
“Smithies offers a compelling new framework for addressing many of the most vexing and contentious issues in the digital humanities. Ranging over a vast body of history, criticism and methodology, The Digital Modern makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the past,present and future of digital scholarship in the computational era.” (Professor Paul Arthur, Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
James Smithies is Director of King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Associate Director of the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern
Authors: James Smithies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49944-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49943-1Published: 06 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49944-8Published: 28 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 268
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Culture and Technology, Social Media