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Durch die voranschreitende Digitalisierung und den Einsatz von computerunterstützten Methoden eröffnen sich für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften neue Möglichkeiten. Dieses Studienbuch stellt die Grundlagen zu den Digital Humanities ("digitale Geisteswissenschaften") in den Geschichtswissenschaften dar und macht mit wesentlichen Ansätzen und Debatten vertraut. Auf der Basis eines Kreislaufs des geschichtswissenschaftlichen Arbeitens verfolgt das Buch einen praxisorientierten Zugang entlang der Schritte des Forschungsprozesses.

The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions.

Ist Facebook eine zeithistorische Quelle, und wer archiviert die Tweets der Politiker? Wie nutzt man digitale Quellen, und wie verändert sich die Quellenkritik, wenn die Kopie sich vom Original nicht mehr unterscheiden lässt? Seit Beginn der 2010er-Jahre wird unter dem Stichwort "Digital Humanities" insbesondere im angelsächsischen Raum eine intensive Debatte über neue Potenziale für die Geisteswissenschaften geführt: Peter Haber zeichnet in seinem Beitrag die Entwicklung der Digital Humanities nach und fragt, ob sich mit der Digitalisierung nicht nur die Qualität und Quantität der Quellen, sondern auch der gesamte Arbeitsprozess von Zeithistoriker/innen verändert hat.

International audience ; We must keep in mind some numerical data when we evoke the transition from the paper to the digital age. In particular, the following contrast speaksfor itself:1. All the books ever written represent 50 billion bytes.2. The information produced in 2006 represents 150 quintillion (150 x 1018) bytes. That is to say, during 2006 alone, the world produced three milliontimes the informational content of all the books ever written.3. Things continue in this way at high speed: the only internet track of May 2009 has generated 500 billion bytes.Thus, our paper-based heritage is already a tiny fraction of what the human race has produced and this fraction decreases, relatively, every day. Viewingthese data, the conception of a digitization enterprise should be thought of and considered by humanists as enlarged. The narrow acceptance of theproject – the view that it is merely a technical process of converting our paper-borne heritage into electronic form – is dramatically insufficient. Toparaphrase Clemenceau's famous words about war and militaries, digitization may be too serious a thing to be left to the digitizers alone. Scholarsmust face the issue and understand it as one of the most important problems they have to deal with and, as I will argue, as a real opportunity to renewtheir practices and disciplines.

International audience ; We must keep in mind some numerical data when we evoke the transition from the paper to the digital age. In particular, the following contrast speaksfor itself:1. All the books ever written represent 50 billion bytes.2. The information produced in 2006 represents 150 quintillion (150 x 1018) bytes. That is to say, during 2006 alone, the world produced three milliontimes the informational content of all the books ever written.3. Things continue in this way at high speed: the only internet track of May 2009 has generated 500 billion bytes.Thus, our paper-based heritage is already a tiny fraction of what the human race has produced and this fraction decreases, relatively, every day. Viewingthese data, the conception of a digitization enterprise should be thought of and considered by humanists as enlarged. The narrow acceptance of theproject – the view that it is merely a technical process of converting our paper-borne heritage into electronic form – is dramatically insufficient. Toparaphrase Clemenceau's famous words about war and militaries, digitization may be too serious a thing to be left to the digitizers alone. Scholarsmust face the issue and understand it as one of the most important problems they have to deal with and, as I will argue, as a real opportunity to renewtheir practices and disciplines.

This book review offers a critical assessment of the book Digitální obrat v českých humanitních a sociálních vědách edited by Radim Hladík (Karolinum, Praha 2022). The author refers to the challenges and perspectives of digital humanities as as a research field and, at the same time, a useful tool for research.

A short poem about the automation of thought.

There is no doubt that we live in exciting times: Ours is the age of many 'silent revolutions' triggered by startups and research labs of big IT companies; revolutions that quietly and profoundly alter the world we live in. Another ten or five years, and self-tracking will be as normal and inevitable as having a Facebook account or a mobile phone. Our bodies, hooked to wearable devices sitting directly at or beneath the skin, will constantly transmit data to the big aggregation in the cloud. Permanent recording and automatic sharing will provide unabridged memory, both shareable and analyzable. The digitization of everything will allow for comprehensive quantification; predictive analytics and algorithmic regulation will prove themselves effective and indispensable ways to govern modern mass society. Given such prospects, it is neither too early to speculate on the possible futures of digital media nor too soon to remember how we expected it to develop ten, or twenty years ago. The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art and aesthetics, as well as media literacy and education. Among the keywords discussed are: data mining, algorithmic regulation, sharing culture, filter bubble, distant reading, power browsing, deep attention, transparent reader, interactive art, participatory culture. The interviewees (mostly from the US, but also from France, Brazil, and Denmark) were given a set of common questions as well specific inquiries tailored to their individual areas of interest and expertise. As a result, the book both identifies different takes on the same issues and enables a diversity of perspectives when it comes to the interviewees' particular concerns. ; Roberto Simanowski: Introduction Johanna Drucker: At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities John Cayley: Of Capta, vectoralists, reading and the Googlization of universities Erick Felinto: Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God David Golumbia: Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization Ulrik Ekman: Network Societies 2.0: The extension of computing into the social and human environment Mihai Nadin: Enslaved by digital technology Nick Montfort: Self-monitoring and corporate interests Rodney Jones: The age of print literacy and 'deep critical attention' is filled with war, genocide and environmental devastation Diane Favro et al.: Surfing the web, algorithmic criticism and Digital Humanities N. Katherine Hayles: Opening the depths, not sliding on surfaces Jay David Bolter: From writing space to designing mirrors Bernard Stiegler: Digital knowledge, obsessive computing, short-termism and need for a negentropic Web

"As digital media, tools, and techniques continue to impact and advance the humanities, Doing More Digital Humanities provides practical information on how to do digital humanities work. This book offers: A comprehensive, practical guide to the digital humanities ; Accessible introductions, which in turn provide the grounding for the more advanced chapters within the book ; An overview of core competencies, to help research teams, administrators, and allied groups, make informed decisions about suitable collaborators, skills development, and workflow ; Guidance for individuals, collaborative teams, and academic managers who support digital humanities researchers ; Contextualized case studies, including examples of projects, tools, centres, labs, and research clusters ; Resources for starting digital humanities projects, including links to further readings, training materials and exercises, and resources beyond ; Additional augmented content that complements the guidance and case studies in Doing Digital Humanities"--

Digitale Technologien ermöglichen die softwaregestützte Sicherung, Erschließung und Bereitstellung von Interviewsammlungen und ihre sammlungsübergreifende Recherche und Analyse. Nach einem Forschungsüberblick skizziert der Artikel die an der Freien Universität zugänglichen digitalen Interviewsammlungen, insbesondere das Visual History Archive der Shoah Foundation und das Online-Archiv Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 und ihre Nutzungsmöglichkeiten. Während Oral Historians traditionell meist wenige Interviews anhand der Transkripte analysierten, unterstützen digitale Interviewarchive nun vergleichende Untersuchungen anhand der originalen Audio- und Videoaufzeichnungen. Allerdings steht die digitale Aufbereitung von Oral History-Sammlungen vor großen Herausforderungen. Die Digital Humanities stellen dafür einige Ansätze bereit, etwa in den Bereichen Spracherkennung und Named Entity Recognition, Erschließungssoftware und Metadatenstandards, Persönlichkeitsschutz und Langzeitarchivierung, die der Artikel kurz vorstellt und diskutiert. Abschließend demonstriert ein Kurzvergleich von zwei Interviews prototypisch die Möglichkeiten einer digital unterstützten Interviewanalyse im Hinblick auf Multiperspektivität, Multimodalität und Multilingualität. Deutlich wird, dass die Digital Humanities der Oral History neue und faszinierende Forschungsperspektiven eröffnen.