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Hybridity, a cultural and scientific model for the future
Yvonne Spielmann, Hybridkultur, Berlin 2010 A brief summary and a few theories for the Digital Humanities Hybrid culture correlates and fuses elements from different media, cultural contexts and...
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The Philosophy of the Digital Humanities
David M. Berry, The Computing Turn, Thinking About the Digital Humanities, in: Culture Machine, Vol. 12, 2011 A short cut Digital technologies mediate research. They also change underlying...
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The Truth of the Technical World
Friedrich A. Kittler, „Die Wahrheit der technischen Welt, Essays zur Genealogie der Gegenwart“, Berlin 2013 (edited by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht) Remarks to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s Edition Friedrich A....
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Digital History in Zurich and elsewhere
For a Workshop about Digital History held on May 13, 2014 at the University in Zurich, reports are now available, notably on HSozKult (in German). Here an English short cut: In re-drafting scientific...
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Forget it !? Memory and the formation of historical meaning in the “broad...
Summary of my Intervention at the Colloquium of the University of Lucerne, Zeit-Geschichte-Unterricht, 7. November 2014 Link to the original german manuscript http://bit.ly/1svdpMg The intervention...
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Qualitative Versus Quantitative Research – Visualization in the Humanities
In communicating and teaching humanities visualization become more and more important. One popular visual communication instrument are slides. More and more of them are shared on Slideshare. A very...
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Virtual History
2011, Penguin published a book with the promising title: „Virtual History“. There, Niall Ferguson presented 9 articles “towards a ‘chaotic’ theory of the past”. Exciting, the digital historian thinks,...
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Any room left for freedom in a programmed world? – Vilém Flusser and the...
Now, if one accepts the basic thesis that the world is experienced, recognized and evaluated in the network of codes, […]. Flusser thinks history as a sequence of codes of an alphabetical order. This...
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Pamphlet No 6 – Between Distant and Close reading
Franco Moretti explains the “Operationalizing” of Distant reading in an interesting pamphlet from the Stanford Literary Lab (see below). Operationalization is a process that transforms a concept into a...
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Digital History: Writing a book with the help of future readers
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan and Scott Weingart jointly write a book on www.themacroscope.org: Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope. It deals with the chances of digital tools for...
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Digital History delayed
Digital History is a trend in Switzerland, too. But, its position is not yet a solid one. This becomes evident, if we check the program of the fourth edition of the Historical Days in Switzerland, June...
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The Programming Historian
Ten years ago, the Programming Historian was born at the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) In 2008, William J. Turkel and Alan MacEachern introduced the project by writing a series...
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