From time to time the Universia portal shows how the careers of the future are completely crossed by digital technology: data analyst, cybersecurity specialists, robotics, big data, artificial intelligence… they are part of a neutral tone list and infographic, although crossed by The concept of technoscience. Science and research at the service of technology and the future as much […] … learn more→
Tag Archives: Digital Humanities
The critical look of the digital humanities
How the Humanities compute in the classroom
Iman Salehian talks like a techie. Ask about her studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, and she mentions many tools that make the web tick: metadata schemas and content-management systems, CSS coding and GIS mapping. Her major? English. Ms. Salehian is at the vanguard of a different kind of humanities education. If […] … learn more→
Stop calling It \’Digital Humanities\’
A persistent criticism of the digital-humanities movement is that it is elitist and exclusive because it requires the resources of a major university (faculty, infrastructure, money), and is thus more suited to campuses with a research focus. Academics and administrators at small liberal-arts colleges may read about DH and, however exciting it sounds, decide that […] … learn more→
\’No DH, No Interview\’
I tweeted that proposition, \”No DH, no interview,\” during the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, at the University of Victoria, in June, and I was surprised by the response, which I\’ll get to shortly. It was my second visit to the summer institute; the last time was in 2008, when I described it as \”Summer Camp […] … learn more→
