New Directions in Film Historiography: Digital Tools and Methods in Film and Media Studies

国际网络的目标是从媒体研究的角度，共同探索数字技术如何塑造我们对电影和电影史的理解。通过分析一系列不同的研究项目，该网络试图在所谓的数字人文学科领域对当前的学术媒体实践进行理论化。为了分析数字电影史学的认识论、概念和方法论条件，网络将理论与实践结合起来。它假设数字工具的挑战和潜力只有在应用和批判性反思时才能在其深远的维度上得到理解。该网络较少关注数字电影或新媒体，而是关注电影史学数据、数字方法、工具和平台，这些都用于人文学科。然而，关于我们如何定义甚至产生历史来源的研究成果和话语发挥着重要作用，特别是在归档和呈现实践方面。该网络希望为正在进行的关于数字人文学科与电影和媒体研究之间关系的讨论做出贡献。它寻求在跨学科水平上推进数字化对人文学科影响的研究。除了电影和媒体研究，它还借鉴了不同学科的方法，包括历史、软件研究、图书馆和档案研究以及计算机科学。

The goal of the international network is to collaboratively explore how digital technologies shape our understanding of film and cinema history from a media studies perspective. Analyzing a selection of different research projects, the network seeks to theorize current scholarly media practices in the field of the so-called digital humanities. In order to analyze the epistemic, conceptual, and methodological conditions of digital film historiography, the network brings together theory with practice. It assumes that the challenges and potentials of digital tools can only be understood in its far-reaching dimensions when both applied and critically reflected. The network focuses less on digital cinema or new media but rather on filmhistoriographic data, digital methods, tools, and platforms which are used in the humanities. However, research outcomes and discourses on how we define and even produce historic sources play an important role, particularly when it comes to archiving and presentation practices.The network wishes to contribute to ongoing discussions about the relationship between the digital humanities and film and media studies. It seeks to advance research on the implications of digitalization for the humanities on an interdisciplinary level. Besides film and media studies, it draws on approaches from various disciplines, spanning history, software studies, library and archive studies, and computer science.