How are the humanities transformed in the digital era? This book describes the transformation of the humanities by the largest shifts in the production of knowledge since the printing press. It addresses a wide range of disciplines, providing a history of those shifts and how humanists have responded to them. It argues that we are all digital humanists now, since we are all addressed by an era of pervasive digital research, reading, teaching, and learning. This book provides a history of digital transformations in the humanities since the first computers, defines the digital humanities through specific communities, conversations, tactics, and intersections, and poses the key questions of the field. Rather than particular technologies or tools, this Introduction centers on the lasting intellectual objects, methods, and concerns of the humanities from the late medieval period to the explosive growth of generative AI.
| ISBN: | 9781108964708 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 2026 |
| Author: | Gabriel Hankins |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Introductions to Literature |
| Genres: |
Computer applications in the arts and humanities Literary studies: from c 2000 Impact of science and technology on society Literary theory |
How are the humanities transformed in the digital era? This book describes the transformation of the humanities by the largest shifts in the production of knowledge since the printing press. It addresses a wide range of disciplines, providing a history of those shifts and how humanists have responded to them. It argues that we are all digital humanists now, since we are all addressed by an era of pervasive digital research, reading, teaching, and learning. This book provides a history of digital transformations in the humanities since the first computers, defines the digital humanities through specific communities, conversations, tactics, and intersections, and poses the key questions of the field. Rather than particular technologies or tools, this Introduction centers on the lasting intellectual objects, methods, and concerns of the humanities from the late medieval period to the explosive growth of generative AI.
The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities features in the following genres: Computer applications in the arts and humanities, Literary studies: from c 2000, Impact of science and technology on society, Literary theory
The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities was written by Gabriel Hankins and published by Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities has 212 pages
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