Digital History and Hermeneutics: Between Theory and Practice

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Digital History and Hermeneutics

Between Theory and Practice

Edited by: Andreas Fickers and Juliane Tatarinov
Funded by: University of Luxembourg and Fonds National de la Recherche

Volume 2 in the series Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723991

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Open Access

As a result of rapid advancements in computer science during recent decades, there has been an increased use of digital tools, methodologies and sources in the field of digital humanities. While opening up new opportunities for scholarship, many digital methods and tools now used for humanities research have nevertheless been developed by computer or data sciences and thus require a critical understanding of their mode of operation and functionality.
The novel field of digital hermeneutics is meant to provide such a critical and reflexive frame for digital humanities research by acquiring digital literacy and skills. A new knowledge for the assessment of digital data, research infrastructures, analytical tools, and interpretative methods is needed, providing the humanities scholar with the necessary munition for doing critical research. The Doctoral Training Unit "Digital History and Hermeneutics" at the University of Luxembourg applies this analytical frame to 13 PhD projects. By combining a hermeneutic reflection on the new digital practices of humanities scholarship with hands-on experimentation with digital tools and methods, new approaches and opportunities as well as limitations and flaws can be addressed.

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Juliane Tatarinov and Andreas Fickers, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Digital history and hermeneutics – between theory and practice: An introduction Andreas Fickers, Juliane Tatarinov and Tim van der Heijden Open Access Download PDF	1
I Hermeneutics of machine interpretation
Social network analysis for digital humanities Antonio Maria Fiscarelli Open Access Download PDF	23
Hunting for emergences in stone-age settlement patterns with agent-based models Kaarel Sikk Open Access Download PDF	43
Argument structures of political debates Shohreh Haddadan Open Access Download PDF	65
Exploring a corpus of Indigenous Australian autobiographical works with word embedding modeling Ekaterina Kamlovskaya Open Access Download PDF	87
Philosophical perspectives on computational research methods in digital history Thomas Durlacher Open Access Download PDF	109
II From ‘source’ to ‘data’ and back
From search to digital search Eva Andersen Open Access Download PDF	131
The hybridity of living sources Sam Mersch Open Access Download PDF	159
Reconstructing Roman trade networks Jan Lotz Open Access Download PDF	179
Re-viewing the constcamer Floor Koeleman Open Access Download PDF	201
Historians as computer users Sytze Van Herck Open Access Download PDF	219
III Digital experiences and imaginations of the past
3D models are easy. Good 3D models are not Marleen de Kramer Open Access Download PDF	239
Walking through the process Jakub Bronec Open Access Download PDF	259
Meaning-making in the digital museum Christopher Morse Open Access Download PDF	277
List of authors Open Access Download PDF	299
Index Open Access Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of digital history, digital humanities, history, science and technology studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 306
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 23
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
- Tables: 1
Keywords: digital humanities; iterdisciplinary research; digital skills and literacy; research infrastructure

eBook

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110723991

Hardcover

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110723878