Lecture

Digital Humanities: Big Cultural Data Sets

Description

This lecture explores the concept of Digital Humanities, focusing on the distinction between humanists and digital humanists, the role of computer scientists in DH, the debate between makers and interpreters, and the contrast between distant readers and close readers. It delves into the differences between Big Data DH and Small Data DH, discussing the narratives associated with Big Data and the methodologies used in research. The lecture also examines the dimensions of data bigness, including the technological, open-endedness, relational, and paradigmatic perspectives. It concludes by discussing the hard and soft definitions of Digital Humanities and the implications of studying Big Cultural Data Sets.

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