Hannu Salmi: What is Digital History?

Cover: 9781509537020 | What is Digital History? | Hannu Salmi | Taschenbuch | 156 S. | 2020

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Beschreibung

Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel ways we might explore, understand and represent the past.

Hannu Salmi provides the most compelling introduction to digital history to date. Beginning with an examination of the origins of the digital study of history, he goes on to discuss the question of how history exists in a digitized form. He introduces basic concepts and ideas in digital history, including databases and archives, interdisciplinarity and public engagement. Outlining the problems and methods in the study of big data, both textual and visual, particular attention is paid to the born-digital era: the contemporary age that exists primarily in digital form. What is Digital History? is essential reading for students of history and other humanities fields, as well as anyone interested in how digitization and digital cultures are transforming the study of history.

Über den Autor

Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Notes

1 The Digital Past: Sources and Problems

Digitization of cultural heritage

Biases of the digital past

Born-digital era

Virality

Toward the epistemology of the born digital

Notes

2 Reading and Textuality in Digital History

Reading as a research method

Reading with machines

Distant reading

The challenge of big data

Texts for historical research

Distant reading techniques

Notes

3 Mapping and Viewing History

Maps as digital sources

Maps as historical interpretations

From visual evidence to distant viewing

Sound and vision

Visuality, textuality and metadata

Notes

4 Interdisciplinarity: Challenges for Research

Beyond disciplinarity

Trading across borders

Towards interdisciplinary practices

Notes

5 Presenting the Past in the Digital Age

Digital history for the public

Visualizing data

Presenting change over time

Augmented and mixed realities

Travelling in time

Notes

Conclusion

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	156 S.
ISBN-13:	9781509537020
ISBN-10:	1509537023
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Salmi, Hannu
Hersteller:	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße:	214 x 141 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Hannu Salmi
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.10.2020
Gewicht:	0,184 kg