Digital Methods: Five Challenges
Digital Methods: Five Challenges
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数字方法:五个挑战
DOI:
10.1057/9780230371934_4
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
Bernhard Rieder
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作者:
Theo Röhle;Bernhard Rieder
While the use of computers for humanities and social science research has a long history1, the immense success of networked personal computing has made both physical machines and software more accessible to scholars. But even more importantly, digital artifacts now populate every corner of post-industrial societies. This means that besides the study of non-digital objects and phenomena with the help of computers, there now is a continuously expanding space of cultural production and social interaction riddled by machine mediation, which has been, from the beginning, tied to digital schemes and formats. An obvious effect of this expansion has been the explosion of material available in digital form.‘Traditional’cultural artifacts like books or movies,‘native’digital forms such as software programs, online publications or computer games, and a deluge of all kinds of ‘information’–logged traces of use practices, online interaction, and so forth–contribute to a growing mountain of data begging to be analysed.Faced with this abundance of empirical material, researchers are increasingly turning towards automated methods of analysis in order to explore these artifacts and the human realities they are entwined with. These computational tools hold a lot of promise: they are able to process much larger corpora than would ever be possible to do manually; they provide the ability to seamlessly zoom from micro to macro and suggest that we can reconcile breadth and depth of analysis; they can help to reveal patterns and structures which are impossible to discern with the naked eye; some of them are even probing into that most elusive of objects, meaning.
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