Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me
- Author:
- Gary Hall
- Subject:
- Arts, Humanities, Science and Technology
- Institution Name:
- Open Humanities Press / JISC
- Collection:
- Living Books About Life
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Abstract:
Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me takes as its starting point the so-called ‘computational turn’ to data-intensive scholarship in the humanities. What Digitize Me, Visualize Me, Search Me endeavours to show is that such data-focused transformations in research can be seen as part of a major alteration in the status and nature of knowledge. It is an alteration that, according to the philosopher Jean François Lyotard, has been taking place since at least the 1950s, and involves nothing less than a shift away from a concern with questions of what is right and just, and toward a concern with legitimating power by optimizing the social system’s performance in instrumental, functional terms. This shift has significant consequences for our idea of knowledge.
- Languages:
- English
- Material Type:
- Readings, Textbooks, Video Lectures
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML, Downloadable docs, Video
- Conditions of Use:
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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence
All reproductions require an acknowledgement of the source and the author of the work and must comply with the terms of the Licence. Reuse of any third party content is subject to prior written permission from third party rights holders as appropriate. - Copyright Holder:
- Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), on behalf of JISC
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