Introduction to Digital Humanities

General characterization

Prerequisites

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Bibliography

Alves, Daniel. «Introduction: Digital Methods and Tools for Historical Research». International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 8, n.o 1 (2014): 1–12.

Alves, Daniel. «Humanidades Digitais e Investigação Histórica em Portugal: perspectiva e discurso (1979-2015)». Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past 1, n.o 2 (2016): 89–116.

Alves, Daniel. «As Humanidades Digitais como uma comunidade de práticas dentro do formalismo académico: dos exemplos internacionais ao caso português». Ler História, n.o 69 (2016): 91–103.

Alves, Daniel. «Ensinar Humanidades Digitais sem as Humanidades Digitais: um olhar a partir das licenciaturas em História». Revista EducaOnline 15, n.o 2 (2021): 5–26.

Burdick, Anne, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, e Jeffrey Schnapp. Digital_Humanities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.

Deegan, Marilyn, e Willard McCarty, eds. Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. London: Ashgate, 2012.

Floridi, Luciano. The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Gold, Matthew K., ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities 2012. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Gold, Matthew K., e Lauren F. Klein, eds. Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Gold, Matthew K., e Lauren F. Klein, eds. Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Hirsch, Brett D., ed. Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics. Open Book Publishers, 2012.

Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens, e John Unsworth, eds. Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens, e John Unsworth, eds. A New Companion to Digital Humanities. London: John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Warwick, Claire, Melissa M. Terras, e Julianne Nyhan, eds. Digital Humanities in Practice. London: Facet Publishing / UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, 2012.

Weller, Martin. The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Changing Academic Practice. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.

Teaching method

Classes will be essentially theoretical-practical, based on lectures to introduce the themes and concepts of the programme, always accompanied by discussion/debate of texts, objects or applications by the students. The more practical classes will focus on the selection and evaluation of digital humanities projects. This work will be developed in a collaborative way, being accompanied in tutoring by the teacher. 

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment

Interventions in critical readings and class debates - 20.0%

Production of a theoretical essay on the main concepts and debates of digital humanities - 40.0%

Critical evaluation work of digital humanities projects - 40.0%

Subject matter

1. When the digital humanities were born?

1.1. History of the digital methods in the art and humanities

1.2. What are the digital humanities?

1.3. The literature, the debates and the main concepts of the digital humanities

 

2. Are we born digital?

2.1. The digital transformation of the society

2.2. Knowledge interaction in the digital age

2.3. The impact of the digital on teaching, research and knowledge dissemination

2.4. The digital progress and its resistances

 

3. What are the tools and methods of the digital humanities?

3.1. Search, select and assess digital tools

3.2. Digital tools for teaching, research and dissemination

3.3. Beware the eternal experimentation

 

4. What a digital humanities project is?

4.1. Search, select and assess projects

4.2. Topics, objectives and methods

4.3. Privacy, intellectual property and open access

4.4. The digital as a tool for the arts and humanities

4.5. The digital as a way for thinking the arts and humanities

Programs

Programs where the course is taught: