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Science in the Forest, Science in the Past: Further
Interdisciplinary Explorations comprises of papers from the second
of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the
conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and
practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in
their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity.
Bringing to bear social anthropology, history and philosophy of
science, computer science, classics and sinology among other
fields, they argue that the use of such dismissive labels as
'magic', 'superstition' and the 'irrational' masks rather than
solves the problem and reject counsels of despair which assume or
argue that radically alien beliefs are strictly unintelligible to
outsiders and can be understood only from within the system in
question. At the same time, they accept that how to proceed to a
better understanding of the data in question poses a formidable
challenge. Key problems identified in the inaugural workshop, whose
proceedings were published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
(2019) and in HAU Books (2020), provided the basis for asking how
obvious pitfalls might be avoided and a new or revised framework
within which to pursue these problems proposed. The chapters in
this book were originally published in Interdisciplinary Science
Reviews.
Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a
pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working
alone in his or her study, is supplemented by explicitly
co-operative, interdependent and collaborative research. This is
particularly true where computational methods are employed in
large-scale digital humanities projects. This book, which
celebrates the contributions of Harold Short to this field,
presents fourteen essays by leading authors in the digital
humanities. It addresses several issues of collaboration, from the
multiple perspectives of institutions, projects and individual
researchers.
Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a
pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working
alone in his or her study, is supplemented by explicitly
co-operative, interdependent and collaborative research. This is
particularly true where computational methods are employed in
large-scale digital humanities projects. This book, which
celebrates the contributions of Harold Short to this field,
presents fourteen essays by leading authors in the digital
humanities. It addresses several issues of collaboration, from the
multiple perspectives of institutions, projects and individual
researchers.
In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading
scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we
read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of
scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating
scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical
approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how
computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the
book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online
journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a
significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization
is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse.'Text and
Genre in Reconstruction' will appeal to scholars in both the
humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone
interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in
the digital age.
In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading
scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we
read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of
scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating
scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical
approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how
computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the
book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online
journalism, and the psychology of authorship. The essays offer a
significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization
is shaping our collective identity, for better or worse.Text and
Genre in Reconstruction will appeal to scholars in both the
humanities and sciences and provides essential reading for anyone
interested in the changing relationship between reader and text in
the digital age.
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